Michelin IT Engineering Blog (Page 5)

Cloud Management Gateway connectivity - A case study

For my first post here I will be going through a recent case (not so much anymore but hey, that is life !) we spent time on, last Summer. Hopefully you will find it interesting. Abstract (aka "I have no time, tell me what I need to know") : always

Architecture

Managing Gitlab instance on Azure

Details about our Gitlab architecture and deployment process mainly based on Azure managed services with databases, cache and file storage.

Moving from orchestration to choregraphy - Part 1

Over the last decade, Michelin went from a big mainframe monolith to a choreography of micro services streaming business events to support its core business processes: the distribution of tires from our plants to our warehouses. At stake: our ability to deliver our tires to our customers on time and

EventDriven

From Kafka to Delta Lake using Apache Spark Structured Streaming

Using Spark Structured Streaming to consume Avro events from Kafka and consolidate them with Delta Lake format on Azure Data Lake Storage

Network

Azure ExpressRoute and VPN Gateways coexisting - Conditional routing for web-surfing to third party solution

Context Azure implementation at Michelin follows Microsoft recommendations: we have several virtual Data Centers (vDC) in different regions connected to our "on-premises" network through Express Route. In terms of network topology, we leverage the traditional hub and spoke model: The vast majority of the workload are Virtual

Architecture

“The metamorphose” of our Information System by Implementing a distributed event streaming platform

In this article, I want to share Michelin's experience on its first implementations of Kafka and distributed architectures, which is part of the early stages of implementing our EDA architectures. Our firsts experiences we had on a distributed platform.

Data

Open Sourcing Kafka Connect transforms for Qlik Replicate

We're very pleased to announce Kafka Connect transforms for Qlik Replicate in open source. This Single Message Transformation library aims to ease a Change Data Capture event integration into the Kafka ecosystem.

Architecture

Learn EDA & Streaming from practice

You hear more and more IT colleagues talk about event-driven architecture and stream programming, you understand this is the new paradigm shift of IT system design in company, but you might wonder how to grasp the key concepts quickly and most important how to apply them in your own

Data

Ordering guarantee when using Qlik Replicate and Apache Kafka

Streaming a database looks simple with Change Data Capture and Kafka. This post will explain the pitfalls and solutions when dealing with events ordering.

Network

Network as a Service - Why Network needs DevOps

What exactly is "Network as a Service"? Once you have your own understanding of that you can start the journey. I'll give my understanding below as well as the one from Wikipedia. As you start the journey towards network automation and Network as a Service there

Monitoring

Measuring Kafka uptime

Discover how Michelin teams measure Kafka uptime.

Architecture

Connected tires: lessons learned in moving to reactive systems

Discover how the Michelin IoT data ingestion platform moved from a monolithic application to a reactive event based micro services system

Security

Vulnerability : at the springs of the Styx

What is vulnerability and why it is so crucial for cyber risks management.

Architecture

Legacy integration, a story of modernisation

Discover the challenges faced by Michelin teams to transform a 15 years old legacy system into domain-oriented streaming data source.

Data Featured

Exponential Information Systems for a Data-Driven World

We live in times of accelerating changes fueled with “exponential technologies”. “Exponential Information Systems” is all about constant adaptation for the information system. This article details it and show how it can contribute to a data-driven backbone towards a data driven company.

Security

Network As a Service - NSX

As I began the journey towards network as a service I was unsure where to start. How do I begin with the end in mind? The end target being a fully sustainable network environment where users can land on a user portal, click the network options they need and then

Cloud

Azure Network Insights with Traffic Analytics

Within Michelin, we have connections from several geographic points to Azure regions, through Express Route circuits. An important requirement from our Network and Security teams is the capability to inspect and analyze the network traffic between all our assets. We already had visibility of network traffic between "on-premise&

Platforms

Platforms, you said platforms

The platform concept is very trendy these days. This blog post is about explaining it and sharing some feedbacks on two real use cases we have at Michelin