Digital transformation has become the only way for traditional enterprises to achieve business growth, and cloud computing is an important infrastructure in the era of digital economy, so enterprises are “on the cloud”, how to “make good use of cloud” in the next stage of development has become a key issue. In the keynote speech of “Construction of Operation and Maintenance System under Cloud Architecture” delivered by Yu Longshui, Chief Solution Architect of Spotmax, he introduced the practical experience of the design, automation and cost control of the operation and maintenance architecture based on the public cloud, and summarized the methodology and experience of helping enterprises to efficiently use cloud from the perspective of operation and maintenance.

Traditional IDC VS cloud platform architecture

According to Yu Longshui, the traditional IDC development architecture is relatively simple, for developers, IDC hosted machine models are large, development without excessive worry about the strain of single computer resources; For operation and maintenance personnel, the number and type of machines are fixed, so the difficulty of operation and maintenance is lower. However, compared with the operation and maintenance under cloud architecture, IDC does not have the flexibility, and the business development will be limited by resources. In addition, due to the lack of systematic security scheme, the overall service security is low, but also need to set up another professional team to design security scheme for the enterprise.

So what is the picture of operations in the cloud?

Since the cloud platform can provide us with a perfect ecosystem, the operation and maintenance under the cloud architecture can liberate the frequent deployment environment of operation and maintenance personnel and reduce the energy consumed by operation and maintenance in the environment deployment. Cloud platform can provide cloud computing resources according to users’ needs, thus improving the overall resource utilization rate and making enterprise business growth no longer restricted by resources. In addition, public cloud itself provides network solutions and corresponding services with high security.

Yu also mentioned that in the cloud architecture, development and operation personnel need to make corresponding adjustments to their work:

For developers, cloud computing resources is to each according to his need, and IDC can not consider the resources development at will, therefore, cloud development of architecture design will be more complex, need to design more in line with public cloud platform software structure, for operations staff, compare IDC, cloud computing resources can be free elastic expansion, resource type and nature of dynamic change, Therefore, a more complex operational architecture needs to be designed.

Cloud platform under the operation and maintenance how to do?

On the public cloud platform, how to make use of cloud computing features to make the operation and maintenance architecture better serve the enterprise?

Yu Longshui shared his practical experience from four aspects of technical architecture design, intelligent monitoring, operation and maintenance automation and cost optimization, such as multi-billing instance deployment, automatic monitoring registration and de-registration, etc.

Among several approaches to cost optimization, the use of SPOs can save up to 90% of computing costs. Therefore, Yu believes that the use of SPOs is one of the most promising ways to reduce costs, and MobVista itself is a beneficiary of such cost optimization.

Take full advantage of preemptive instances to reduce cost and increase efficiency on the cloud

In 2017, due to the rapid growth of the MobVista programmatic advertising business and the soaring cost of using the cloud, enterprises began to think about how to use cloud computing resources efficiently.

In this context, MobVista started with the optimization of the underlying technical architecture, and built SpotMax, a large elastic cluster management platform, by flexibly utilizing different billing modes of cloud computing while giving play to the characteristics of cloud computing. The result was a 65% reduction in the per-request processing cost of mobVista programmatic advertising, which made full use of low-priced preemptive instances while balancing availability.

After the success of MobVista internally, we realized that this cost-cutting and cost-enhancing cloud practice could not only be applied to ourselves, but could also be exported to other enterprises to make cloud use more efficient. SpotMax is helping more companies build cloud-compliant systems to take advantage of the flexibility of the cloud.

We believe that when the “high cost of cloud computing” and “waste of cloud cost” no longer become the stumbling block to restrict enterprises to the cloud and use the cloud, the pace of digital transformation of enterprises will be greatly accelerated.

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