ChainStar

ChainStar

Founded in 2019, ChainStar uses data-driven strategies to conduct research and analysis to identify emerging trends and opportunities, promote informed decision-making for sustainable growth and value creation, and actively nurtures a diverse portfolio across industries, technologies and geographies to enhance resilience and mitigate risk and maximize long-term growth opportunities.

Founded in 2019, ChainStar uses data-driven strategies to conduct research and analysis to identify emerging trends and opportunities, promote informed decision-making for sustainable growth and value creation, and actively nurtures a diverse portfolio across industries, technologies and geographies to enhance resilience and mitigate risk and maximize long-term growth opportunities.

Why Huawei Cloud?

Cost-effectiveness

Huawei Cloud provides more cost-effective services with the same configuration for ChainStar, meeting ChainStar's requirements for cost reduction and efficiency improvement and optimizing ChainStar's system costs.

Multi-cloud Strategy

To move away from the lock-in of a single cloud provider, ChainStar needed to minimize the impact of service disruptions or failures on customers by spreading workloads across multiple cloud platforms and spreading the risk to systems. The multi-cloud strategy provided by Huawei Cloud combines flexibility and reliability, creating a powerful and elastic cloud environment for ChainStar.

High-reliability Services

Huawei Cloud provides ChainStar with an environment that ensures service continuity and data security. It can quickly cope with unexpected service interruptions or faults through fault recovery and backup, minimizing risks and ensuring data security.

Rich Technology Ecosystem

Huawei Cloud's rich technology ecosystem can meet customers' technical requirements and provide various and timely system support. This means they can more easily integrate existing applications and systems, accelerate application development and deployment, and enrich their cloud environment with third-party tools and services.
Challenges

ChainStar is facing in various ways pressure in business operations. The biggest pressure comes from vendor lock-in caused by reliance on a single cloud provider, which greatly limits their flexibility and options and is forced to bear the pressure of increasing costs. Moreover, reliance on a single cloud provider also makes customers more vulnerable to service disruptions or failures, and any failure in the current system could disrupt ChainStar's entire operations and degrade the user experience. This demonstrates the need for ChainStar to optimize performance and quality of service through a multicloud strategy.

ChainStar originally uses TiDB, which is complex to deploy and manage and requires more learning and training. Compared with GuessDB for MySQL, ChainStar consumes more computing and storage resources. Compared with other cloud databases with the same configuration, TiDB is more expensive for the same duration of use, but has lower performance, making ChainStar do not perform well in processing large-scale data and complex queries while investing more money in TiDB. This reduces ChainStar's own productivity and customer experience, demonstrating the need for higher-performance cloud databases to process data.

Solutions

  • As a cloud-native organization, ChainStar moved all of its infrastructure to the cloud. By cooperating with Huawei Cloud, ChainStar has successfully transferred all resources to the containerized Kubernetes environment. That is, ChainStar's system is containerized, from the application server to the database and message queuing. Now, ChainStar is able to effectively reduce costs by using technologies such as CCE and CCI, especially in DevOps and infrastructure management.


    ChainStar's organization has fully embraced an automated approach, with Terraform to simplify and accelerate the deployment process to improve operational efficiency. In addition, ChainStar has strategically moved from a serverless architecture to a server-based architecture to improve cost efficiency. Provides better availability for read operations by implementing a primary/secondary data replication policy in a multicloud environment.


    Huawei Cloud provides more cost-effective and high-performance GaussDB for MySQL for ChainStar, meeting ChainStar's requirements for reducing costs and improving system performance.

Customer Benefits

Benefits

Cost Reduction

Huawei Cloud provided ChainStar with architectural support and advice, both to meet ChainStar's desire to modernize applications and to provide cost-effective structural design. As a result, ChainStar's architectural landscape has undergone a strategic transformation that has led to a significant reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO) and directly contributed to improved financial efficiency.

Improve System Performance

The integration of automated deployment simplifies the O&M process while facilitating a seamless cycle of continuous deployment and updates. The rollout speed is significantly improved, demonstrating the agility and responsiveness achieved by Huawei Cloud services.