OSO DEVOPS LIMITED

Event Driven Architecture (Kafka) Workshop

At OSO we help you understand and harness the power of event-driven architectures, schema registry and a roadmap for the secure deployment of Kafka. Utilising our experience in distributed software development, automation, best practices of Kafka Streams we can design, build and deploy highly available and scalable event-driven applications.

Features

• Event driven architecture practices, standards and solution design workshops
• Enumerate Kafka ecosystem, open-source vs commercial offerings
• Expertise in schema-registry, replication, partitioning, retention, and data-balancing
• Principles of Kafka security, broker encryption and authentication with SSL
• Self service tooling and use-case for Kafka ecosystem of connectors
• Performance, scalability, throughput latency testing and validation of Kafka clusters
• DevOps, No-Ops tooling and self service for operational excellence

Benefits

• Experience and knowledge of deploying large scale Kafka clusters
• Adoption of Kafka best practices which will drive efficiency
• Using infrastructure as code to get consistent environments on demand
• Using containers to make software more portable and scalable
• Upskilling, Coaching and Education of your staff
• Flexible access to thought leadership in advisory and delivery capacity

£2,500 a unit a day

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at bear@oso.sh. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

818746191912383

Contact

Sion Smith
07894434228
bear@oso.sh

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: Working in partnership with your engineering team, we provide expertise to help design and deliver your platform vision inline with budget and regulatory requirements. The deployed solution, supporting material and operating model, will then be made available to your engineering teams as part of your IT asset ecosystem
• Planning service works with specific services: Yes
• Hosting or software services the planning service works with:
  • Confluent Kafka
  • Apache Kafka

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: Full enablement of client teams on-site or off-site, from design and architecture to Kafka deployment.
• Training is tied to specific services: Yes
• Services the training service works with:
  • Confluent Kafka
  • Apache Kafka

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: OSO DevOps executes migration projects by applying the central-pipeline pattern. The core idea of this setup is to enable Kafka to integrate multiple data pipelines, bridge data centres in a streaming fashion and subsequently accelerate migrations. By using automation we can deliver consistent, repeatable and secure deployment patterns which mitigate the risks associated with large scale cloud migrations.
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: Yes
• List of supported services:
  • Confluent Kafka
  • Apache Kafka

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: We provide an in-depth set of practices across the software development lifecycle, from design all the way through to production to ensure quality assurance is benchmarked against the project requirements. To aid us in performance testing we leverage the Ducktape framework by Confluent. Ducktape does the hard work of creating the distributed environment, setting up clusters, and introducing failures. It helps in scripting up test scenarios, and collecting test results. Importantly it also helps to aggregate logs and metrics for all the tests it runs so that failures can be debugged.

Security testing

• Security services: Yes
• Security services type:
  • Security strategy
  • Security risk management
  • Security design
  • Cyber security consultancy
  • Security audit services

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: No constraints

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: No
• Phone support: No
• Web chat support: No
• Support levels: No support provided for workshop engagements. ; ; Please see our support offering on G-cloud 14 - Kafkacare. ; ; More info can be found at www.kafkacare.sh

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• ISO 28000:2007 certification: No
• CSA STAR certification: No
• PCI certification: No
• Cyber essentials: Yes
• Cyber essentials plus: Yes
• Other security certifications: No

Social Value

• Social Value:

  Social Value

  • Fighting climate change
  • Covid-19 recovery
  • Tackling economic inequality
  • Equal opportunity
  • Wellbeing

  Fighting climate change

  At OSO we are committed to reducing our overall carbon footprint across the organisation, we ask not only our employees to be mindful of their carbon footprint but also our subcontractors as well. OSO actively explores and reviews how it can offset its carbon footprint, one method that has proven to be very effective is remote working, transportation accounts for around one-fifth of global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions as such we ask all our customers to allow for remote working whenever possible and to keep traveling to a minimum in order to save guard the environment.

  Covid-19 recovery

  OSO supports organisations and businesses to manage and recover from the impacts of COVID-19. OSO has several years of experience in delivering projects remotely and can provide support to customers to transition to a remote-first project approach, which includes upskilling customers in using new tools and technologies as well as processes that work very well in a digital environment. OSO also provides workplace conditions that support the COVID-19 recovery effort including effective social distancing, remote working, and sustainable travel solutions.

  Tackling economic inequality

  OSO recognise the impact of economic inequality and to support affordable innovation across the UK we offer different rate cards for our enterprise vis SME customers. OSO have also been known to further reduce rates for our Northern SME clients where the economic disparity is even greater. OSO are keen to support small business and build partnerships, we attend networking events, share knowledge and talk at conferences promoting innovation and growth across the UK.

  Equal opportunity

  OSO are an equal opportunity employer, and we have an established culture built on dignity and respect. Our interviewers have had unconscious bias training and we have supporting equality policy to promote a diverse workforce. The people pillar of our strategy is focused on bringing more women and ethnic minorities into technical roles, by active recruitment, coaching and mentoring. OSO also support young people’s access to employment and is currently piloting a Technical appreciate graduate scheme.

  Wellbeing

  OSO’s appreciate that wellbeing at work has never been more important, post pandemic many are struggling with burn-out and or physical and mental health issues. OSO have built a culture which promotes a strong work life balance, we ensure holidays are taken, extra is provided at request and we provide private health care for our staff. We also pay for wellbeing apps such as Calm and Mindspace. The leaders in the business have an open-door policy which establishes openness and trust, and we encourage everyone in our team to check in on each other. Our talent lead is the process of establishing wellbeing policies and developing supporting toolkits and training

Pricing

• Price: £2,500 a unit a day
• Discount for educational organisations: No

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

Request an accessible format

If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format, email the supplier at bear@oso.sh. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.