Cost reduction
A Kubernetes solution which enabled a cost-effective licensing arrangement.
Client Value
Tailored the solution to meet the customers regulatory and financial requirements.
Rapid delivery
Utilised serverless technologies to rapidly deliver a functional proof-of-concept platform
Scalable
A Kubernetes control plane allowed the client to idle hardware costs at zero, only scaling resources when needed.
Our client provides video subtitling services to a number of broadcasters in multiple languages, with over 100,000 hours a year of live captioning. Subtitle generation is often a manual and slow process as well as an expensive one and LiveWyer helped to reduce their running costs.
The use of AI driven speech-to-text systems has the potential to disrupt the market for traditional subtitling services. The company engaged with LiveWyer to build a container based solution for an Automatic Speech Recognition pipeline and batch processing platform capable of automating the generation of Spanish and English subtitles.
LiveWyer was able to take a core business idea and evolve it into a series of key technology assets with cost, scale and outcome benefits to the client.
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Idle running costs
60%
License cost reduction
3
months total engagement
It was our task to take the client’s high-level end state and develop a series of features, stories, outcomes and feed this into a development roadmap. By engaging in a series of discussions and demos, whilst utilising Serverless technologies, we were able to rapidly deliver a functional proof-of-concept platform at the end of this extended discovery phase. This technology demo then helped direct further discussions as we moved into the main development phase.
With the core concepts proven, we began development of our production build, which needed to fulfil a number of business goals in terms of scalability, cost reduction and regulatory compliance. This required us to extend the Serverless platform and integrate with an existing on-premise Kubernetes platform we had previously delivered. This meant that workloads could be managed and secured within their existing infrastructure governance.
As well as additional scaling benefits, the client’s move to Kubernetes allowed them to benefit from a cost-effective licensing arrangement provided by a key third-party service. By moving from a per-request to flat per-core model with Kubernetes, the client benefited from a substantially reduced per-conversion cost whilst still being able to manage the service at scale within their current operational models. Another benefit was that by using an existing Kubernetes control-plane, they were able to keep their idle hardware costs at zero whilst only scaling resources when existing capacity was exhausted and further jobs demanded it.
LiveWyer was able to take a core business idea and evolve it into a series of key technology assets with cost, scale and outcome benefits to the client. By aligning the right technology with the right requirement, LiveWyer were able to successfully implement and extend Serverless technologies as well as migrating workloads to compliant infrastructure. We were able to demonstrate how we can adapt our solution to meet regulatory and financial requirements.
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