A Smokin’ Multi-Region AKS Implementation

Make it Work, Make it Right, Make it Fast

With a growing demand for vapor products, the pressure on blu’s platform and its development team increased day by day. While a combination of third party SaaS solutions was sufficient at first, Fontem Ventures now urged for a new custom-built platform on AKS. The perfect time to ramp up development and quality assurance processes too – so that they would not become bottlenecks. Or, better yet: make them the champions of fast delivery and saving costs.

Bryte Blue’s engineers optimized the processes and made the CI/CD pipeline faster and more stable. How? Well, for starters, we split up heavyweight processes into multiple lightweight ones, split up a monorepo into multiple smaller repositories and CI/CD pipelines, and we fixed the pipeline and infrastructure flakiness. Just to give you an idea. Because it’s definitely not all we did – you can add: 

• Custom-built productivity tools so that managers can work more efficiently.
• Custom developer tooling that allows developers to work faster and with fewer defects. 
• Design and implementation of a multi-region production platform for GDPR compliance – migrating with zero downtime.
• Container image scanning to prevent malware.
• Runtime environment protection to increase security.

The Embodiment of DevOps

We obviously focused on maximizing development productivity, minimizing defects and downtime, and ensuring legal compliance in multiple jurisdictions.

But, at Bryte Blue, we don’t like hit-and-runs. We made sure that everyone within Fontem – from developer to operator to manager – internalized our knowledge. We mentored teams, helped onboard new joiners, and organized DevOps sessions for knowledge sharing, issue solving, and planning for a smokin’ future.

“In our ever-changing and heavily regulated trade market, a fast-moving team that cares about the cloud infrastructure, security, and scalability is essential. The Bryte Blue team helped us achieve our e-commerce goals. We have an unquestioned trust in their people and our partnership.”

Martin Miete | Senior Operations Manager

About Fontem Ventures

Fontem Ventures is a leader in vaping technology and offers vaping products through its brand blu. Fontem Ventures’ transformative purpose is to create something better for the world’s smokers.