Custom Fleet Customer Portal DataStax Architecture Review and Development Workshops

Custom Fleet is part of Element Fleet Management (TSX: EFN), one of the leading fleet management companies in the world. Custom Fleet offers expertise in fleet management and leasing and provides flexible solutions to businesses in Australia and New Zealand, specialising in passenger and heavy commercial vehicles for large and small fleets.

Custom Fleet chose DataStax Enterprise Cassandra, Solr and Spark Analytics as the data storage and analytics infrastructure on which to develop their next-generation customer-facing Fleet Management Portal.

DataStax deployed RhinoSource to Custom Fleet in Melbourne, Australia to help accelerate the development of Custom Fleet’s new portal application.

RhinoSource reviewed Custom Fleet’s use cases, consistency and replication requirements and data model with the development and ops teams, and recommended schema design changes necessary to meet application performance and scalability SLAs.

RhinoSource also conducted an architecture deep dive, including a detailed review of system configurations, security and load testing environments, and made a number of recommendations to improve overall cluster performance and manageability. The recommendation included a multi-datacenter reference architecture designed to meet Custom Fleet’s production varying workload requirements, which segregated Cassandra workloads from Spark analytical workloads to prevent resource contention.

RhinoSource assisted with setup of OpsCenter for cluster monitoring and management, mentored sysadmin team on cluster maintenance tasks and resolved Spark issues, so users could run ad-hoc SQL queries against the data in the DataStax Cassandra cluster.

Finally, RhinoSource accelerated Custom Fleet’s development process by delivering 4 interactive half day “deep dive” DataStax Enterprise core concepts workshops, covering advanced topics beyond what the standard DataStax online training courses cover, discussing best practices and how Custom Fleet requirements can be best met by DataStax Enterprise features.