How An E-commerce Brand Built a Scalable Infrastructure for its Increasing Demands using AWS
This E-commerce brand is the first and fastest-growing online grocery platform in Southeast Asia.
Challenges
- Multiple points of failures on the existing monolithic applications
- Troubleshooting issues
- Lack of scalability
Solution
- Built a scalable infrastructure that could scale in and out in response to the increasing/ decreasing demand
- Moved their Payment, Pricing and Fulfillment Modules which were hosted on Elastic BeanStalk (a monolith set up) to a modern setup on AWS EKS
- Set up the building blocks using Infrastructure as a Code and setting up pipeline using Bitbucket pipeline
Business Impact
The shift from monolithic to microservices-based architecture enabled the firm to to:
- Effectively utilize their resources (for eg- AWS EC2 instances)
- Achieve sustainability to any failure which ensures business continuity
