Verizon Real-Time Customer Event Streams DataStax Production Readiness Review

Verizon Communications, Inc. (NYSE: VZ) engages in the provision of communications, information, and entertainment products and services, including both consumer-focused and business-focused wireless and wireline communications, video and data services.

Verizon replaced slow and expensive legacy batch processing with DataStax Enterprise Cassandra and Spark to capture real-time customer event streams, enabling customer-facing applications to create welcoming first impressions and deliver excellent customer online experiences.

DataStax brought RhinoSource into Verizon to review Verizon’s DataStax deployment to ensure they were ready for go-live.

RhinoSource reviewed Verizon’s architecture design of prod and non-prod DataStax clusters, their DataStax Enterprise cluster settings across data centers and their data model designs for operational readiness and to ensure they would perform as expected.

RhinoSource also coached the application development team on data modeling, coding and tuning best practices and advised how to use Spark for real-time dashboards.

Finally, RhinoSource mentored Verizon’s system administrators on DataStax Enterprise cluster configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting and maintenance and helped them troubleshoot cluster issues.