Hentsū Achieves Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform Competency Partner Certification

[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="3.22"][et_pb_row _builder_version="3.25" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="3.25" custom_padding="|||" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.27.4"]Hentsū, the global leader in cloud services for asset managers, are proud to have achieved the Microsoft Gold Cloud Platform Competency partner certification.  In recognition of our experience and technical ability providing cloud solutions, Hentsū is now Cloud Platform Gold status in the Microsoft Partner Network, both in the UK and the US. This is less than 1 year since our Silver certification and compliments our Microsoft Tier 1 Cloud Services Provider status in both regions.  Hentsū have been providing Microsoft cloud solutions since our inception in October 2015. The Microsoft Gold partner certification signifies that Hentsū has achieved the highest level of Microsoft partnership program status. Hentsū will continue to work closely with Microsoft to remain at the forefront of the latest cloud developments, products and services, as well as ongoing enablement and training.  The Gold competency is a recognition of the outstanding skills and expertise of our staff, which are the foundations of Hentsū capabilities in financial services. This type of investment in training and certification is a hallmark of Hentsū as a technical solutions provider.  Bringing value to our clients  This important designation recognizes that our certified associates are at the leading edge of cloud knowledge and can offer clients the best technical guidance and solution execution. Collaborating with a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner means working with proven technical experts who have built up real experience in the solutions they deploy. Our Microsoft Certified Partner status has a wide range of technical benefits which includes access to cloud services and support.  We are proud of the continued dedication of our staff and their hard work which has enabled us to reach this prestige status. In order to achieve this certification, we had to fulfil extensive requirements, training, certification, and reference case studies. We are honoured to be considered amongst the best when it comes to cloud solutions and support.  Our services  Since our inception in 2015, Hentsū has been pioneering asset manager solutions across all three cloud providers – AWS, Microsoft and Google. We have been steadily growing our expertise and experience with each provider and the solutions we offer. Today we cater for all technology requirements – from the staple of collaboration and security using Microsoft 365, to the high-end data science and quant workloads.        [/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version="3.27.4" custom_margin="-35px||-2px" custom_padding="0px||0px"]    [/et_pb_text][et_pb_cta title="Talk to us about your public cloud strategy today" button_url="https://hentsuprod.wpengine.com/contact" url_new_window="on" button_text="Contact Us Today" _builder_version="3.16" button_text_size__hover_enabled="off" button_one_text_size__hover_enabled="off" button_two_text_size__hover_enabled="off" button_text_color__hover_enabled="off" button_one_text_color__hover_enabled="off" button_two_text_color__hover_enabled="off" button_border_width__hover_enabled="off" button_one_border_width__hover_enabled="off" button_two_border_width__hover_enabled="off" button_border_color__hover_enabled="off" button_one_border_color__hover_enabled="off" button_two_border_color__hover_enabled="off" button_border_radius__hover_enabled="off" button_one_border_radius__hover_enabled="off" button_two_border_radius__hover_enabled="off" button_letter_spacing__hover_enabled="off" button_one_letter_spacing__hover_enabled="off" button_two_letter_spacing__hover_enabled="off" button_bg_color__hover_enabled="off" button_one_bg_color__hover_enabled="off" button_two_bg_color__hover_enabled="off"]Need to improve how you run your hedge fund technology? Concerned with your legacy private cloud provider? Not getting the service you need? Hentsū can help! [/et_pb_cta][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]

Date/Time

Date(s) - 01/01/1970
12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

Location

600 5th ave. NY, NY

Case Study: Serverless Research Platform in Azure

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  The Challenge

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 An established asset manager approached us with a research platform challenge. Their application brought together market data with their own research and opinions into one view to create and evaluate their strategies.

Their legacy implementation ran on several servers as a monolithic application, with a hand managed and complex infrastructure. The overall performance was poor, which is unacceptable in a trading research environment where timeliness, speed and accuracy are paramount. In addition, the ongoing cost of this setup was hard to justify.

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    REQUIREMENTS

    • Ingest various feeds of market data sources
    • Combine the price data, with holdings and position calculations
    • Present dashboards and analytics to research analysts
    • Ongoing low effort maintenance, cost-efficient and automated
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    document icon  Key Considerations

    1. The solution had to be able to process several data feeds reliably and merge with the in-house research data.
    2. Security was paramount, with the highly sensitive trading research information held within the system.
    3. The application had to be responsive, dynamic with auto-scaling and auto-healing capabilities.
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      The Solution

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    TECHNOLOGIES USED

    • Azure App service sharing a single App Service plan
    • Bamboo for app build and deployment to registry
    • Cosmos DB with a Mongo interface
    • Azure Batch execution to handle daily jobs
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    After reviewing the challenges, Hentsū were able to create an elegant serverless solution in Azure leveraging the huge power and scale of the cloud, which is simply not possible in a private cloud. Where possible we used cloud native services for their low cost, breadth of features available, and ease of management.

    Hentsū took the existing legacy application and broke it up into microservices. The code was entirely rewritten into a modern cloud native stack, separating real-time applications from batch processing to be able to handle these appropriately.

    The platform has built-in multi-region resiliency across the Azure cloud and is also hugely auto-scalable based on workloads and user demand. Within the application there are health checks and integrated alerts, automated recovery and restarts if any service fails.

    Utilising such a cloud native serverless solution allows us to obtain huge processing power when needed, and only pay for what was actually used.

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      Technical Details

      The entire platform has been built as a serverless solution. The batch work now uses Azure Batch; scripts have been turned into Docker containers which are scheduled onto temporary machines used for the smallest amount of time necessary. This allows for simplified management, huge parallelism, and low cost.

      The application servers are now hosted with Azure App Service to leverage the reliability and huge number of management tools available. Hentsū built out the data pipelines to move data from the large number of feeds into an Azure Cosmos DB. A managed database was used to take away the headaches of managing a database on a machine, such as patching or disk management, while getting access to features such as georedundant automatic backups and one-button scaling.

      Hentsū also developed the API server that allows individual services to get access to the data, as well as a web app that the client interacts with to perform their data analysis.

      Bitbucket and Bamboo are used as the CI/CD pipelines, which test and build the application and batch Docker containers and then deploy to the container registry, all automatically when the code is updated. This can be adapted to use any repository and build server products if needed, such as Azure DevOps.

      Security is crucial, with all access to the application handled natively within Azure and integrated with Azure AD for a seamless and authentication experience with world-class security.

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       The Benefits of Azure App Service

      Everything you need to secure and manage a web app is contained in Azure App Service:

      • The servers are created as Docker containers, making them easy to create, version, and deploy
      • Deployment tools such as blue/green deployments, split traffic, and slot dependent environment variables for minimal interruption in deployments
      • All authentication handled through Azure Active Directory. This leveraged Azure class security while simplifying the platform development as app security did not need to be included in the app itself
      • One button upgrading / downgrading of hardware, with a change taking around 2 minutes
      • Custom domain handling and TLS/SSL set up in a few button presses
      • Network security, such as restricting access by IP
      • Log compilation and log streaming
      • Encrypted connection strings
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       Impact

      The client was very pleased with the final product, particularly around the much lower cost and ease of administration. Additional iterations of the platform are already being seamlessly deployed, with the underlying infrastructure able to handle any amount of additional data or load from end users.

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      Date/Time

      Date(s) - 01/01/1970
      12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

      Location

      600 5th ave. NY, NY