Akamai Technologies (NASDAQ: AKAM) is a global content delivery network, cybersecurity and cloud service company. Its Intelligent Edge Platform is one of the world's largest distributed computing platforms.
Akamai's Global Traffic Management service makes routing decisions in real time, weighing data center performance health and global Internet conditions to send each user request to the most appropriate data center by the best route available at that moment. Apache Cassandra sits inside that infrastructure as a distributed, fault-tolerant data store — which means its behaviour under stress is a routing concern, not just a database concern.
DataStax recommended RhinoSource to Akamai to perform a risk assessment of the open source Apache Cassandra implementation, evaluating how well it supported Akamai's ability to hit its key Quality of Service goals.
RhinoSource investigated the production issues Akamai was seeing and delivered forward-looking recommendations spanning cluster tuning, performance, capacity planning, operations management, security, and best practices for software development against the platform.
Products serviced
- Apache Cassandra
Services performed
- System Architecture and Configuration Review
- System Health Check and Performance Audit
- Data Model Review
- Data Security Review
- Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution
- System Operations Review