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Building a smarter, faster business with modern
applications

Arthi Jaganathan John McKim Hitesh Bhatia Martin Lim Lilanga Gamage
Solutions Architect, ASEAN, SVP, Product & Engineering Head of DevOps CEO Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services A Cloud Guru Airtel Digital Ltd. Electrify Asia Electrify Asia

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Benefits of modern applications

Get to market Agility Reduced risk Operational Reduced costs

faster efficiency

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 Modernization paths

Build new applications Re-platform Refactor Modern operations

Cloud native Migrate to modernize Re-architect Automation &
standardization

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Building modern applications

Modular As serverless as Automated Everyone’s Purpose

services possible & standardized responsibility built &
decoupled

Monolithic Self-managed Manual Centralized Monolithic

gate keeper

1 2 3 4 5

Application Operational Software Management & Data

architecture model delivery governance management

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Modular microservices
APPLICATION ARCHITECTURE

Monolithic application Microservices

+ teams + 2 pizza teams

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Compute evolution - A shift for modernization
OPERATIONAL MODEL
Time elapsed

Focus on modernization and level of abstraction

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Automated and standardized deployments
SOFTWARE DELIVERY

AWS CodePipeline

SOURCE/
AUTHOR BUILD & TEST DEPLOY MONITOR
ARTIFACT

AWS Cloud9 AWS AWS AWS CodeBuild AWS AWS Amazon Amazon DevOps
AWS IDE toolkits CodeCommit CodeArtifact CodeDeploy X-Ray CloudWatch Guru
AWS SDKs

Amazon Elastic Container Amazon

Registry (Amazon ECR) & CodeGuru AWS AWS Managed AWS Managed
Amazon ECR Public Service for Service for
Config
Grafana Prometheus

MODEL AWS CloudFormation AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK, AWS Serverless
CDK8s, CDK-terraform) Application Model (SAM)

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Automating operations
MANAGEMENT AND GOVERNANCE

Free for all Guardrails Central control

Fast dev time, but risk to Fast time & low risk Low risk but very slow
legal & app reliability to the business to release

Chaos Win-win Dependencies &

time lags

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Decoupling data along with business logic
DATA MANAGEMENT

What are the data needs of each modular service?

Massive data volume?

One size does

High speed rendering? not fit all

Data warehousing?

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Voice of the customer #1
A Cloud Guru

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A Cloud Guru’s modernization journey
Business problem Go to market quickly, highly scalable

Modernization path New build

Application architecture Microservices

Operational model Serverless

Software delivery Automated pipeline

Management and governance Security guard rails

Data management Multiple database engines

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Voice of the customer #2
Airtel

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Airtel Wynk’s modernization journey
Hitesh Bhatia
Head of DevOps
Airtel Digital Ltd.

bhatiahitesh

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Agenda
• About us

• Scale

• What made us move?

• Tenets

• Benefits

• Observability

• Summary

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About us?
Bharti Airtel

Diversified Portfolio

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Wynk-Music and Airtel Xstream

• We are India’s largest aggregated premium content market place

• Personalization at an exabyte scale
• 13.5 billion minutes to 90 million active users
• Content ~ 1TB / minute - Amazon CloudFront

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What made us move?
• Distributed monoliths

• Cascading failures

• Brittle codebase

• Ramping up became difficult

• Slow time to market

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Tenets
• Single responsibility principle

• PODs for organization and architecture

• Education
• Re-architect, refactor, rehost
• Cost increase

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Benefits
• Scalable architecture Service

• Resistant to failure A
A
• Fault isolation
• Feature rollouts became simpler
• Time to market improved Service Service

• Complementing infrastructure A
B A
C

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Observability
• Open source tooling
• Logging and real-time dashboards
• Track and monitor
• Define service level indicators (SLI)

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Summary
• Single responsibility principle

• Infrastructure complemented our design

• Services became more stable, resilient and elastic

• Team are more productive

• Improved time to market

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Airtel Wynk’s modernization journey
Business problem Agility, reliability, scalability

Modernization path Re-platform followed by refactor

Application architecture Microservices, pod-based teams

Operational model Containers

Software delivery Automated pipeline

Management and governance Open source tools, real time dashboard

Data management Multiple database engines

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Voice of the customer #3
Electrify Asia

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27&28 October 2021

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IoT data processing @ Electrify Asia
Martin Lim Lilanga Gamage
CEO Solutions Architect
Electrify Asia Electrify Asia

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Electrify Asia
• Energy technology company
• Build sustainable energy ecosystems through
development of transactive energy platforms
• Pioneering scalable peer-to-peer energy
trading solution for city and country-wide
grids

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Challenges faced
• Integrating with different third party IoT platforms with a unified
solution
• High scalability and availability
• Minimum supervision and maintenance
• Flexible system to incorporate changes and be able to apply
enhancements easily
• Cost-effective solutions to support load fluctuations, with near
real-time processing without missing data packets

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High level data processing design
AWS Cloud

JWT token Amazon DynamoDB AWS Lambda JSON store

Normalizer
validation

Auth Server
Amazon Elastic
Amazon Elastic Container
Container Service
Registry (Amazon ECR)
(Amazon ECS)
Common
message
format
Amazon Kinesis Data
Stream for Provider - A AWS Lambda
Consumer-A

Aggregation
Https endpoint
Provider - A
Shard
Amazon Kinesis Data AWS Lambda
Stream for Provider - B Consumer-B

Https endpoint

Provider - B Normalized
time series data
Shard
AWS Lambda Analytics
Amazon Kinesis Data
Consumer-C
Stream for Provider - C

MQTT endpoint
Provider - C
HA Tasks-AZ Shard Raw data

Amazon
Amazon ECS Cluster
Kinesis
Firehose

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CI/CD implementation

Version Unit test / Production Observe /

Build Manual tests Auto tests
control Quality test deployment monitor

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Summary
• Decoupled event driven design
• Cost management
• Environment provisioning and change tracking
• Deployments
• Security

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Electrify Asia’s modernization journey
Business problem Highly scalable, low cost IoT platform

Modernization path New build

Application architecture Microservices

Operational model Serverless and containers

Software delivery Automated build and deploy pipelines

Management and governance Integrated monitoring

Data management Multiple database engines

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