Etnia Barcelona
Etnia Barcelona
Overview
Etnia Barcelona is an independent eyewear brand from Barcelona focused on creating colorful designs with natural acetate and mineral lenses. Etnia represents the essence of the company: a brand that embodied the idea of being free, human and respectful towards all ethnicities with color and art as the way to go. The company has more than 400 employees, 10.000 points of sales and 4 subsidiaries in Asia, Canada and The United States. In 2018 Etnia Barcelona billed more than 66MM, a raise of 3.12% in comparison with 2017. In 2019 the company invested 3MM on creating their own production center to control the design and prototyping and supervise the production workflow between Spain and Hong Kong. During 2020 the company made a -10% due to the COVID but the forecast at the end of 2022 is to bill about 80MM, a raise of 30%.
Goals
- Apply a CI/CD deployment process in order to automatize the deployments.
- Create a stress environment on Azure add guarantees during deployment process.
- Assist the development team when moving to Cloud Computing.
technologies used
Backend development:
- Bash
- Make
- Docker
- Nginx
- PHP-FPM
- PHP-FPM Exporter
- MySQL
- JMeter
- Azure
- Kind/Kubernetes
- K9s
- Helm
- Prometheus Operator Stack
Challenges
- The scale of the project and the team - Etnia Barcelona has an IT department based on 14 members distributed in two departments one related with Marketing Dept. and other with SAP, B2C, DBA and systems administrators. Getting to know the project, processes and workflows is something that was not trivial. We manage to adapt to the current workflows while proposing alternative ones that could improve the global performance and/or their daily basis tasks.
- The absence of tests - When we joined Etnia Barcelona the projects belonging to the Marketing Department were developed with vague test suits, partially covering critical workflows. This absence of tests also affected their deployment process forcing them to perform manual tasks and checks.
- Using opaque infrastructure - The Marketing Department uses an opaque infrastructure due they cannot access any metric related to the new feature’s impact, nor any dashboard in which they can detect infrastructure issues or bottlenecks.
What we did
- Introduce CD/CI on their deployment pipelines in order to automatically detect issues or automatically deploy the application.
- Kubernetes cloud environment in which we can stress the application and detect infrastructure issues or bottlenecks.
what can we do for you?
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