Axoniq Conference 2025 Day 2: Running Axon Server in Production - Real-World Challenges at iManage

Tom and Rafael from iManage share 5 years of real-world experience running Axon Framework and Axon Server at enterprise scale. Learn how they built a secure, multi-tenant, globally distributed system serving law firms with billions of events across 6 regions.

🎯 Featured Speakers:

Tom Cablon - Platform Architect, iManage
Rafael Espillaque - Senior Engineer, iManage (14 years experience)

🏢 About iManage:

30 years in business, 10 years independent
Acquired Raven in 2017
Product: Insight Plus - AI-powered document search for law firms
Like "Git for lawyers" with advanced security and compliance

💡 Key Takeaways:

✅ GitOps is essential for managing multi-region, multi-tenant deployments
✅ Security first: No direct cluster access, network deny-by-default
✅ Plan for 1000x growth: Knowledge → Active document scaling
✅ Multi-tier storage solves disk space without downtime
✅ Performance: 60K commands/sec, 650K event reads/sec achievable
✅ Global index is memory bottleneck (DCB improvements coming)
✅ Startup optimization: Preload index configuration crucial
✅ Real partnership: Months of support with Axoniq team
✅ Half a person maintains Axon Server once properly configured

🔗 Resources:

iManage: https://www.imanage.com
Axoniq Documentation: https://docs.axoniq.io
Axon Server Deployment Guide: https://docs.axoniq.io/axon-server-installation/
Argo CD: https://argoproj.github.io/cd/
Helm: https://helm.sh