Company
Date Published
Author
Michael Haag
Word count
893
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Abra Controls is a software company specializing in optimizing hydraulic fracturing operations for oil and gas companies. Their real-time wireless and portable solutions aim to provide faster, better decision-making through the ingestion of millions of IoT data points. The company's system collects various information from IoT devices and sensors, including pressure, temperature, flow rates, and casing integrity, which is then analyzed in real-time to help stakeholders make quick and informed decisions. To support their SaaS platform, Abra Controls chose a database solution that was easy to manage and delivered resilience, such as YugabyteDB Aeon, a fully managed DBaaS solution. The company upgraded from standard PostgreSQL to improve scale and resilience while minimizing operational costs and risk. Their new architecture features multi-zone high availability, high write throughput, and PostgreSQL runtime compatibility, allowing them to protect their data from node and zone outages without impacting data availability or customers' access to real-time data.