Customer Success Story : Dioptase

By leveraging Scaleway's infrastructure, the company can now deploy a complete portal in just 3 minutes, a considerable speed gain. The scalability of the infrastructure allows them to manage over 100 production instances, ensuring easy expansion as demand grows.

About the company

Dioptase is an IT company specializing in the development of mobile solutions for water, electricity and gas meter reading. Dioptase’s core business is to provide a comprehensive meter reading solution for energy meter management. In 2020, their systems team of just two employees successfully managed the transition of their solution to full SaaS mode at Scaleway. Today, the same team continues to evolve on large-scale infrastructure on a daily basis, fully hosted at Scaleway.

Challenges

The company encountered a significant challenge in developing and managing IoT services for a fast-evolving industrial market. They required the ability to deploy and scale SaaS portals in a matter of minutes, ensuring rapid updates and seamless functionality. The company needs an infrastructure that allows for short update cycles, full automation of deployment, and compatibility with configuration management tools like Ansible. Furthermore, the services must meet current IoT standards, provide high elasticity, support multiple storage options (such as S3 buckets), and include managed relational databases with high availability. Given the small size of the team, they also require a support level tailored to their needs, ensuring that the entire system remains secure, efficient, and adaptable as IoT technologies and customer requirements continue to evolve.

Results

Thanks to Scaleway, the company has significantly enhanced its operational efficiency and agility. Scaleway has provided the company with the tools and infrastructure needed to improve speed, efficiency, and scalability, while also ensuring operational flexibility and high availability. By leveraging Scaleway's infrastructure, the company can now deploy a complete portal in just 3 minutes, a major improvement in deployment speed. Additionally, the scalability of the infrastructure allows them to operate over 100 production instances, ensuring they can easily expand as demand grows. With flexible IPs and VPCs, they can manage internal traffic securely, giving them confidence in the security and reliability of their operations. Another key benefit is the ability to upgrade servers without downtime, ensuring high availability and minimizing service disruptions.

Future Plans

Looking ahead, the company plans to integrate OpenSearch/Elasticsearch within the Scaleway ecosystem, improving portal speed through optimized indexing. The upcoming Edge services will enhance access times to cold data, reducing latency and improving overall performance. These advancements will further boost the efficiency and responsiveness of their IoT solutions, helping the company stay competitive in a rapidly evolving market.