appknox architecture - making the switch from aws to the google cloud
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MAKING THE SWITCH FROM AWS TO THE GOOGLE CLOUD
APPKNOX ARCHITECTURE
GOOGLE DEVELOPER GROUP - SINGAPORE
ABOUT ME
▸ CoFounder and CTO of Appknox
▸ Mobile Security Researcher
▸ Developer of Android Framework for Exploitation
▸ Spoke & Trained at various Security conferences such as BlackHat, RSA, SyScan, etc.
▸ Found Security Issues in Google Chrome, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.
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HOW APPKNOX WORKS ?
HOW APPKNOX LOOKS LIKE?SHERLOCK HOLMES
CLIENT SUBSYSTEMDJANGO AND SOCKET
DATA SUBSYSTEMData Warehouse & Storage
WORKER SUBSYSTEM
THE MAGIC BEHIND APPKNOX
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OUR STACKS
▸ Django
▸ Postgres (Migrated from MySQL)
▸ RabbitMQ
▸ Celery
▸ Redis
▸ Memcached
▸ Varnish
▸ Nginx
▸ Ember
▸ Google Compute
▸ Google Cloud Storage
HOW DOES IT WORKS?
GDG Attendees in Singapore
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LIVE WALKTHROUGHSNEAK PEAK
WHY SHIFT FROM AWS TO GOOGLE CLOUD ?
Random GDG Attendee
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AMAZON WEB SERVICES - PROS
▸ Has message Queuing as services
▸ Has both Relational/NoSQL as services
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AMAZON WEB SERVICES - CONS
▸ More expensive than any other services
▸ Steep learning curve
▸ Running an RDS instance is slower + costlier than running your own instance
▸ Running an SQS instance is not fault tolerant
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GOOGLE CLOUD SERVICES - PROS
▸ Objects stored in Google Cloud Storage has better availability
▸ Google Cloud SQL instances fares much faster than RDS
▸ Configurability through Google API is better than AWS
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GOOGLE CLOUD SERVICES - CONS
▸ Doesn’t have a queuing service
▸ Google’s own PubSub is not compatible with Redis based PubSub
▸ Relatively New, hence no dedicated built-in support as a plugin for most applications
WHAT DO WE DO ?
@dhilipsiva -FSD at Appknox
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WHAT DID WE DO?
ALL YOUR CODE SHOULD WORK OFFLINE
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TIPS AND TRICKS WE EXPERIMENTED
▸ Log analysis through Google Bigtable
▸ Google Deployment manager to auto-deploy from Github
▸ Flexibility of attaching and re-using a disk with different compute engine, allowed us to speed-up our process by 200%
▸ Using Google Cloud Services to Deploy AWS !
▸ High reliability in data-availability is guaranteed in Google Cloud
IT’S NOT A BUG, IT’S A FEATURE
:-/
Thank You
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