Our Traffic Infrastructure

Owned by Siamak Haschemi (Deactivated)
Last updated: Jan 18, 2024
3 min read

A cornerstone of Ingenious's robust digital infrastructure is its traffic management system, designed to provide seamless user experiences while ensuring optimal system performance and security.

 

Google’s High-Available Global Load Balancer Service: Ingenious harnesses the power and reliability of Google’s High-Available Global Load Balancer Service. This choice is emblematic of Ingenious's commitment to ensuring that user requests are routed efficiently, even in scenarios with high traffic volumes or potential server outages. Google’s Load Balancer not only distributes incoming traffic across multiple servers but also ensures that users are directed to the nearest and most efficient server, resulting in reduced latency and improved user experiences.

First-Party Tracking/UI/API Domain Configuration: Integral to Ingenious's traffic infrastructure is its proprietary domain setup, which serves as the foundation for its first-party tracking, user interface, and API functionalities. Several technologies and practices converge to make this possible:

  • CNAME/A-Records: By utilizing Canonical Name records (CNAME, A-Records), Ingenious ensures that domain aliases can be directed to the primary domain, enabling flexibility in routing and domain management.

  • SSL/TLS: Security is paramount, and Ingenious employs SSL/TLS encryption to ensure that data exchanged between users and the system is secure from potential eavesdroppers or malicious entities.

  • Kubernetes Ingress: Ingress plays a pivotal role by exposing HTTP and HTTPS routes from outside the cluster to services within the cluster. This mechanism ensures that traffic routing is controlled by rules defined on the Ingress resource, providing a structured and scalable approach to managing incoming traffic.

  • Traefik Docker Containers: Ingenious leverages the Traefik Kubernetes Ingress provider, a dedicated Kubernetes Ingress controller. This means it manages access to cluster services while fully supporting the Ingress specification. By using Traefik in Docker containers, Ingenious ensures a dynamic and responsive traffic management system that can swiftly adapt to changing traffic patterns and requirements.

Scalability and Monitoring: Every layer within Ingenious's traffic path is meticulously designed for scalability. This ensures that as user demands grow, the infrastructure can scale accordingly without sacrificing performance or reliability. Complementing this scalability is a centralized monitoring system, ensuring that any potential bottlenecks or issues are swiftly identified and addressed.

 

 

Automated SSL/TLS Management with CertManager and Let's Encrypt:

In the modern digital landscape, ensuring the privacy and security of user data is paramount. Recognizing this, Ingenious has implemented an advanced automated system for managing SSL/TLS certificates, ensuring encrypted and secure communications between users and the platform.

Central to this system is the integration of CertManager, a native Kubernetes tool that automates the issuance and renewal of SSL/TLS certificates. Ingenious's deployment of CertManager is designed to streamline the traditionally cumbersome process of certificate management, ensuring that the system always uses valid and up-to-date certificates without manual intervention.

 

To complement this, Ingenious has partnered with Let's Encrypt, a renowned certificate authority that provides free SSL/TLS certificates. The synergy between CertManager and Let's Encrypt ensures that Ingenious not only obtains high-quality certificates but also automates their renewal, guaranteeing that they remain valid and unexpired. This continuous certificate renewal process occurs seamlessly in the background, eliminating potential downtime or security vulnerabilities related to expired certificates.

The integration of CertManager and Let's Encrypt is a testament to Ingenious's commitment to security and operational efficiency. Users can be confident that their data and interactions with Ingenious are protected by the highest standards of encryption, while the Ingenious team can focus on core functionalities, assured that the SSL/TLS infrastructure is self-sustaining and robust.

 

Performance Metrics: A testament to the efficacy of this approach is the fact that Ingenious has successfully handled more than 5,000 queries per second (qps) without exhibiting any signs of strain or reaching its limits.