Case study : e-Publishing Platform

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Case study e-Publishing PlatformApplication
re-architecture using Tomcat Java
2014 Faichi Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
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Project Brief

• Manuscript approval and publishing process
• This application allows authors and scientists
  to submit their manuscripts for publishing via
  client's website. These submitted manuscripts
  follow the process of reviews by independent
  editors with rework on the recommendation by the
  authors.
• Each main research area with the client's
  organization operates and maintains its own site
  and Faichi team helps in their maintenance. There
  are 57 main sites under support and our support
  team helps in proper maintenance of the full
  site. http//benchpress.highwire.org/sites.dtl
• Faichi team is responsible for
• -- Journal Sites Support
• -- Testing during New site
  launch on the basis of the manuscript approval
  process
• -- Performance enhancements by
  analyzing bottlenecks and provide technical
  solution
• -- Ongoing Defects/ Bug fixing

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Manuscript Tracking

• Complete manuscript submission, tracking, peer
  review, and publishing system.
• Web-based manuscript tracking and management
  service.
• Authors, scientists submit their manuscripts for
  publishing, which follows the process of reviews
  by independent editors.
• Supports conversion of XML and PDF data to
  Highwire system.
• Indexing for quick search and automatic
  classification based on publisher.

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Challenges with old System

• Old Jserve web server resulting in low
  performance and scalability.
• Multi-tenancy was not in place, multiple
  instances needed to be set up and maintained.
• Heavy cost for Weblogic app server licensing and
  maintenance.
• Support for concurrent users was very limited.
  Scalability was a major issue, hence webserver
  needed to be restarted every night.
• High coupling between Template Processor (dtl)
  based user interface and server side code made UI
  enhancements difficult.
• Migration on new infrastructure was difficult due
  to the old technology stack.

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Faichis Proposal
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Technology Flow Diagram
User
User
User
User
Hardware Load Balancer
Apache
Apache
Apache
Apache
Tomcat Instance 1
Tomcat Instance 2
Tomcat Instance 4
Tomcat Instance 3
MemCache 2
MemCache 1
Database
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Technology Stack
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Continuous Integration
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The Outcome

• Major Performance Improvement.
• Horizontal Scaling capabilities enhanced.
• Increased capabilities of integrating with new
  monitoring tools like New Relic, Jmon etc.
• Ease of maintenance (Technical debugging /
  troubleshooting).
• Dependency on Weblogic removed.

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Faichi Difference

• Successful remote team coordination
• Entire Architect, Dev QA team in India
• Product Owner in US
• Weekly standup, sprint demo/planning calls.
• End-to-end ownership
• Team handled entire Architecture/Design, RD,
  Implementation, Production Rollout, Project
  Management.
• Agile Project Management
• Used Jira/Greenhopper for managing Scrum
  effectively.

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Client Speak

BenchgtPress team took lead in establishing
Agile-Scrum process properly using
Jira-Greenhopper and established product backlog
and clear release timelines. Team plans to
continue the process improvements and develop
right Agile environment

It's definitely very nice to be up on green
hopper and have a clear list of tasks and our 1st
burn down

Neil Mehta, Manager, Bench Press


Very nice job
Faichi Team identified the precise root cause of
the performance bottleneck for auto-completion
feature for Advance search people search. This
has resulted in significant performance
improvement and will be delivered to production
next week.
Neil Mehta, Manager, Bench Press

You've done a fantastic job on this site

Faichi Team architected, developed and
implemented the site http//www.boneand
joint.org.uk. The site was developed using Drupal
and Faichi managed to successful handle diverse
and complex requirements mentioned in the RFP
Todd McGee, Asst. Director, Drupal


Its just brilliant....thank you so much
Emma Vodden

Faichi has done such a great job of converting
all the code over to the new version and it also
fixes a few bugs we couldn't fix otherwise

Faichi Team successfully delivered the project
and fixed complex bugs for AjaxXplorer v4


Michael Friedman
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About Faichi Solutions

• We are a technology company in Pune, India
  specializing in outsourced product engineering
  setting up offshore development centers
• We hold expertise in technologies such as Drupal,
  Java, Mobile and UI/UX development
• Established in 2009, with a vision to transform
  the outsourced product engineering landscape
  through technical excellence and delivery model
  innovation
• Faichi Solutions has successfully delivered some
  of the most complex technology projects through
  partner collaboration agile processes

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