Cloud Platform

Cloud Platform

As the Cloud Platform team at BeeinPro, we have an ambitious goal: to scale a product that serves a few individuals to one that can support tens of thousands of active users simultaneously, and to repeat this process for all our products and services, including our big data infrastructure. Our main priority in doing so is to ensure that the infrastructure is reliable, sustainable, scalable, and secure.

Achieving success at this level is not easy. Processing millions of API requests per minute and managing petabytes of data requires extremely robust applications and processes. Therefore, as the Cloud Platform team, we adopt specific practices that enable us to create consistent and repeatable processes.

Having an internal framework for the consistent deployment and sustainability of all services is crucial. To achieve this goal, we leverage technologies like AWS, Consul, Prometheus, and other newer technologies. This architecture creates a solid foundation upon which all our products are built.

At the same time, we collaborate closely with developers to implement DevOps practices wherever possible. As a result, the Cloud Platform team also serves as an ambassador for the DevOps approach within BeeinPro. Our vision is to empower software engineers with the tools and processes that allow them to own their services. Developers work alongside the Cloud Platform team on infrastructure codebases and adopt a collaborative approach to solving problems without assigning blame.

Additionally, managing the entire database infrastructure is one of our responsibilities. For user - focused products, we prefer MySQL. Handling the unique challenges that arise at this scale requires dealing with issues such as MySQL sharding. While managing hundreds of thousands of queries simultaneously, we must build infrastructure capable of scaling to even greater sizes in the long run.

At this scale, mistakes are inevitable. Our infrastructure operates like a living organism, constantly seeking more efficient, performant, manageable, and secure solutions. This flexibility requires a comprehensive monitoring approach. We use various technologies that allow us to monitor services in real-time and conduct in-depth error analysis. As part of shared responsibility, our developers also participate in on-call rotations, contributing to the resolution processes. In the end, we’re all in the same boat, and our ultimate goal is shared.

Dealing with these challenges would not be possible without a long-term vision. Thanks to a highly dedicated team, we turn this vision into action. The Cloud Platform team shares common goals, regardless of the products and services they manage, and works towards them.

In a structure where everyone sets their priorities, we ensure that our services run smoothly while also improving the next steps of our processes. For instance, despite the continuous increase in traffic, the effort required to manage our systems has remained at the same level over the past few years. This has been possible through continuous improvements in automation and optimization of our processes. We do all of this to provide a better experience for those interacting with our products and services. Our users are at the center of our approach.