Technical advantages of self-deployment
Flexprice's self-hosted solution empowers organizations with complete system control, supporting flexible infrastructure choices based on business scale. The core components are deployed using containers, and dependencies include workflow engines such as PostgreSQL, Kafka, ClickHouse and Temporal. The officially provided Docker Compose file can quickly build a complete development environment, and Kubernetes clusters are recommended for production deployments.
The architecture design has three outstanding features: first, the storage layer can use the enterprise's existing database; second, the message queue supports the replacement of RabbitMQ and other alternatives; finally, all sensitive configurations are managed through environment variables, in line with the principle of twelve-factor application. For enterprises that need to handle ten million events, it is recommended to configure a base node with 4-core CPU and 8GB memory, and to cope with traffic growth through horizontal scaling.
Deployment Considerations
- Production environments need to be configured with persistent storage
- It is recommended to enable TLS encrypted communication
- Critical services require the deployment of a backup solution
- Monitoring system resource utilization
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