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YSI Architecture Platform

The document discusses YSI's plans to build a new scalable platform architecture. It aims to move from a LAMP stack to a more modular system with distributed services, storage clusters and a platform-neutral desktop SDK. This will improve development velocity, enable richer clients, enhance scalability and integration capabilities. The timeline outlines transitioning applications to the new platform throughout 2008 while expanding its capabilities.

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YSI Architecture Platform

The document discusses YSI's plans to build a new scalable platform architecture. It aims to move from a LAMP stack to a more modular system with distributed services, storage clusters and a platform-neutral desktop SDK. This will improve development velocity, enable richer clients, enhance scalability and integration capabilities. The timeline outlines transitioning applications to the new platform throughout 2008 while expanding its capabilities.

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YSI Platform Architecture

Ideas for Today & Tomorrow


Our Mission
 Build a scalable, reliable, secure and
cost effective YSI technology platform,
that enables rapid application
development and deployment

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Current
Architecture - Web

Desktop
Desktop
Browser
Browser

PHP Drupal

YSI API Presentation Layer


Sugar CRM
(REST) (PHP Templates)

YSICMS YSIUSER FTF

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Current
Architecture - Desktop
Outlook
New Plugin
Plugin
(html, js)
(html, js)

Command Line Command Line


Interface - WIN Interface - MAC Outlook DLL
(ysiexpress.exe) (ysiexpress)
Javascript Layer
(common.js)
MS Windows
OS X
(C++/ WinInet)
(Objective C)

YSI
External
API

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Challenges
 LAMP Stack: Simple & Effective, however…
 Does not lend itself to be a platform
 Some inefficiencies in the web application infrastructure:
 No code modularity
 No result set caching
 No reliable messaging
 No code generation
 No unit level quality
 Desktop Development
 Platform specific Runtime (Mac/ PC/…)
 Results in
 Slower Dev velocity
 Harder to scale
 Harder to integrate with Partners
 It is harder to build a platform

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Goals for new Platform
 High Performance with Reliability, Scalability, and Security
 Cost efficient distributed storage network (YSN)
 Build YSI Platform (for developers & partners)
 Branding
 Partnership (own branding)
 Customizable (our UI)
 Build an OS neutral Desktop Platform
 Integration Capabilities
 Manageable (customer, self)
 Internationalization
 Development & QA
 Language Neutrality
 High Velocity
 Deployment Ease
 External Developer Program
 Integrated Test Automation
 Keep up with rapidly changing Technology

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Proposed
Platform Architecture - Web
 Continue to use PHP for Presentation &
Enable Rich Clients (Flash)
 Move Business Logic to a new Service layer
(technology change likely)
 Cluster based efficient Storage and File
Processing Network
 Standardize Development methodology
 Improve Development velocity by Code
generation

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Vision
 Web

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Proposed
Platform Architecture - Desktop
 SDK built using platform neutral
technology
 Adobe AIR/ JAVA SWT/ Mozilla XUL
 Expose programmatic interface
 AIR/ JAVA/ XUL

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Vision
Outlook
Desktop
New Plugin
 ysiexpress Plugin
(html, js)

Outlook DLL

Platform Neutral Layer


(JAVA/ Adobe AIR/ XUL)

YSI
External
API

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Scalability
 Web Scalability
 Clustering business logic transactions
 Messaging/ Eventing for throttling
 Caching with RW/ RO database instances
 Storage & Processing Scalability
 Storage/ Compute clusters
 Plug ‘n’ Play FTFs
 Easy & Centralized Administration

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Distributed storage network
YSN
 Reliable communication
 Load
 Monitoring with Notification
 Algorithms tuned for throttling to maintain optimum capacity
 Failover
 Enable adjacent services to be built around YSN
 Divided into clusters based upon operations
(example: Storage/ Compute)
 Subnets (dedicated clusters) for service tier support
 Console for managing the network

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YSI Platform
 Send Receive Track
 Billing
 Folder/ File Management
 API Infrastructure
 Application Infrastructure
 Service Framework
 Caching, Messaging, Multi Currency
 Cluster based storage & processing network
 UI Framework
 Flash, Component Based, Custom Branding, Multi Language &
Locale
 Desktop Framework
 Application Monitoring
 Alerts for errors

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Development & QA
 Generation of:
 Data Access Layer (DAL)
 Web Service Layer
 Proxy Layer
 Unit Test
 External API
 Integration Testing
 Black Box: UI Automation
 White Box: Choreograph Unit tests

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Keeping up with
Technology Trends
 Leverage SOA
 Platform and language neutral by definition
 Business logic module swap
 Own OR
 Subscribed from a vendor/ partner
 Multiple Front Ends (using External API)
 Flex
 AJAX
 Desktop

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Timeline
 Q1 – 2008 (PLATFORM DEFINED)
 YSN - Monitoring, Virus Scanning
 Infrastructure – Messaging, Logging
 Architecture Definition (with Framework Selection)
 facebook – YSI App
 Q2 – 2008 (PLATFORM BUILT)
 YSN - Delete, Replication, Download, Upload (Reliability & Centralized Business Logic)
 Client Proxy – Code Generation (PHP, JAVA)
 Data Access Layer – Code Generation
 File/ Folder Management
 Billing
 Q3 – 2008 (ALL NEW APPS ON NEW PLATFORM)
 Infrastructure - Caching
 Rollout of Service framework for Application Development
 Rollout of Presentation Layer Framework for Application Development
 YSN – Clustering, Routing
 Web Services – Clustering, Routing
 Q4 – 2008 (CUTOVER TO PLATFORM)
 Migration of Current Webapp
 External API generation
 YSN – Centralized Management
 Presentation Layer – Widget Based Development, Session, Caching
 Q1 – 2009 (EXTEND PLATFORM)
 Customer Service Framework
 Business Layer Unit Test – Code Generation
 Desktop – OS Neutral SDK

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