shrebo Founder and CTO, Patrick Senti, uses cloud platforms to develop his technology to drive new ways of sharing resources, similar to the technology and economic forces behind Uber, AirBnB and Zipcar. The Swiss company won an innovation award from Swiss Federal Railways to provide an entire web services-based SaaS platform, starting in Europe where sharing is quite popular.
As Senti, his executive team, and his board of directors look to make decisions about risk in the future, he trusts Cloud Foundry to help. He knows how fewer people, more efficient processes, and a scalable architecture can ensure SLAs are met, downtime is avoided, and cash can flow into his business.
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1. In the Post-Paper Era, cloud, mobile, local, and social applications have created entirely new ways of supporting human and machine interactions—often sharing information in ways that were never possible with paper.
shrebo Founder and CTO, Patrick Senti, uses cloud platforms to develop his technology to drive new ways of sharing resources, similar to the technology and economic forces behind Uber, AirBnB and Zipcar. The Swiss company won an innovation award from Swiss Federal Railways to provide an entire web- services-based SaaS platform, starting in Europe where sharing is quite popular. Shrebo doesn’t primarily provide end-user applications—they provide a cloud services platform and APIs for application developers. This includes search, booking, scheduling, provisioning, payment, and social endpoints surrounding the entire process of sharing resources. With these micro- services, third parties can cost effectively, quickly create sharing applications to automate logistics, optimize machinery, increase asset and fleet utilization, and run services for sharing any resource like cars, bikes, or parking spaces.
CHALLENGE
Focusing a Start-Up on Architecture, Scale, and Developer Effectiveness from Day One
Having recently led the architecture and software engineering for a service-oriented, backend financial securities platform, Senti faced a new architecural challenge with shrebo. With 20 years of software experience, including machine learning, at companies like IBM, SAS, and Credit Suisse, Senti saw how the architecture called for a level of scale beyond traditional banking systems, and Senti began his journey by looking at architectures from Twitter, Facebook, and others to understand how shrebo would need to scale in the future.
Since architectures are sustained for years or decades, Senti knew the foundation was crucial. In addition, shrebo’s business model as a cloud-based API included a requirement for extreme scale. Lastly, Senti’s lean development team needed to be able to focus on developing software instead of working on operations.
AT-A-GLANCE
Challenges
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Start-Up Environment with Resource Constraints
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Need for a High Scale Cloud Architecture
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Maximizing Developer Effectiveness and Efficiency
Solution
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Cloud Foundry on CenturyLink’s PaaS: App Fog
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RabbitMQ for Pivotal CF
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Redis for Pivotal CF
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MySQL for Pivotal CF
Key Benefits
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Improved Customer Experience for shrebo’s Customers in the Sharing Economy
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Elastic Compute and Data with Cloud Foundry
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Flexibility, Agility, and Automation
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Gaining a Robust Microservices Architecture
with RabbitMQ and Redis
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Speeding Time to Market and Reducing
Operational Risk
CASE STUDY
shrebo
DELIVERING A SCALABLE, RISK-INTELLIGENT START-UP ARCHITECTURE FOR THE SHARING ECONOMY
OVERVIEW
“ Cloud Foundry is a real blast of an experience as a developer. We essentially package the application along with a services manifest and press a button. Everything else is done by the platform. This type of thing used to take days or weeks. Now, it takes minutes. As a CTO, this is the experience every developer has been looking for over the past 10 years.”
— Patrick Senti, Founder and CTO shrebo
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