Modernizing Lionbridge’s Cloud Infrastructure
Lionbridge faced several challenges with their existing cloud infrastructure, specifically related to high availability and disaster recovery.
Engagement Summary
The engagement between MILL5 and Lionbridge focused on modernizing Lionbridge’s cloud infrastructure to enhance scalability, high availability, and disaster recovery. By migrating from Azure Service Fabric to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), implementing Azure SQL Database, Storage, Virtual Machines, and Bastion, and conducting extensive performance engineering, MILL5 addressed Lionbridge’s challenges and achieved significant improvements. The project resulted in cost reductions and a robust, scalable infrastructure capable of supporting Lionbridge’s global operations.
Challenges Faced by Lionbridge
- Struggled to achieve high availability and disaster recovery on Azure using Azure Service Fabric.
- Needed to address scale and high availability issues while reducing costs in the cloud.
- The complexity of developing and maintaining their microservice-based platform using Service Fabric.
Results That Speak Volumes
MILL5 partnered with Lionbridge Technologies to perform a comprehensive review of their current architecture and implementation. The key steps taken were:
Architecture and Implementation Review:
- Conducted an extensive code review and performance analysis using Application Insights.
- Evaluated current practices and state to provide a path forward plan.
Migration to Azure Kubernetes Services:
- Replaced key Azure systems that used Service Fabric with Kubernetes, leveraging containers for better scalability and management.
- Implemented Azure SQL Database, Storage, Virtual Machines, and Bastion for a more robust and scalable infrastructure.
Performance Engineering:
- Conducted stress, load, and availability testing to ensure solution stability and scalability.
- Utilized Application Insights to monitor services running under load.
About Lionbridge
Lionbridge is a global leader in the language service industry, providing translation and localization services to Fortune 500 companies and government entities. They offer services in over 350+ languages and have an annual revenue of over $1.3 billion.
To learn more about Lionbridge, visit www.lionbridge.com.
Industry: Translation & Linguistic Services
Size: $1.3 Billion in Revenue; 5,000+ Employees
Location: Waltham, Massachusetts, United States
