Semiconductor manufacturing

A legacy Hadoop data lake retired after a validated cloud cutover, with ingestion 35% faster

Client profile

a global semiconductor company · Data-science and platform teams · Cloud data engineer, project through decommission · Azure

Semiconductor · Cloud migration · Decommission

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01 / Inside the engagement

Situation

High-volume operational telemetry landed in an on-premises Hadoop data lake that was hard to scale, hard to access and kept the data away from the Databricks tools the data scientists wanted to use.

Conceptual delivery summary

Before

  1. Telemetry ingestion
  2. Hadoop data lake
  3. Three destinations

After

  1. Telemetry ingestion
  2. Validated Azure path
  3. Databricks access

Simplified workflow. The case text describes the contribution, delivery stage and evidence.

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A legacy Hadoop data lake retired after a validated cloud cutover, with ingestion 35% fasterBefore: Telemetry ingestion to Hadoop data lake to Three destinations. After: Telemetry ingestion to Validated Azure path to Databricks access. BEFORE AFTER Telemetryingestion Hadoopdata lake Threedestinations Telemetryingestion ValidatedAzure path Databricksaccess
Conceptual illustration of the engagement. The delivery stage and measurement scope are described in this case study.

02 / Inside the engagement

What UTIS did

  • Owned the migration end to end, with a zero-loss validation framework as the gate for decommissioning.
  • Planned and pre-communicated the cutover; when the production transfer path failed mid-flight, redesigned it from Spark to per-file-trackable AzCopy.
  • Collapsed a three-destination legacy fan-out into a single Azure path, then built the native acquisition and ingestion pipelines that replaced the old feed.

03 / Inside the engagement

Results

  • Thirteen datasets migrated on schedule.
  • Legacy system decommissioned: hardware, licensing and support retired.
  • Raw-log ingestion 35% faster.

Why it matters to you

Moving the data is the easy half. The saving arrives only when the old platform is switched off, and that takes a validation gate strong enough to sign the decommission order.

Stack

Azure Blob StorageADLSAzCopyDatabricksHadoop (retired)

How we measured it: validation-framework reconciliation counts; ingestion throughput before and after.

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