Natasha Kelkar
ABSTRACT
In order to meet the rapidly evolving needs of the VFX industry, studios need to be able to adapt and upgrade quickly. However, the infrastructure stack at most companies is complex, usually set up over a number of years with significant customizations and proprietary software. Maintaining this stack requires dedicated teams. Upgrades can take months and are usually fraught with risk.
The engineering team at MPC drastically reduced this time to deployment from months to a few days by using cloud native solutions. Built on a foundation of microservices, the infrastructure stack provides an asset management system, storage, sync and compute capabilities. Within the first year it was deployed across two sites in different timezones, supporting up to 200 artists. Thus proving the ability for VFX studios to scale rapidly.
Supplemental Material
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