E-Commerce Company - Migration of Traditional E-Commerce Software to Microservices

Client

The customer was an e-commerce company generating more than $1 billion in annual revenue. Their goal is to improve scalability, reduce dependencies and improve the reliability of the overall platform.

Challenges

• Multiple tenants and stakeholders were in different time zones across the globe.
• Tight integration of the existing platform with numerous third-party software systems.
• Custom software developed for management and maintenance purposes as part of the application.
• The high volume of operations data needed to be migrated to the new platform.

Solution

• Created independent cloud applications that implemented core capabilities according to the blueprint.
• Exported the required data from the legacy monolithic applications to the new cloud solution.
• Seamlessly switched the traffic to the new applications to eliminate dependency on the legacy monolithic software platform.
• Continued the incremental migration of legacy applications to the cloud.

Value

• Delivered a very complex project according to the roadmap and project schedule.
• Minimized dependencies on the previous monolithic platform.
• The time and cost of implementation were cut in half compared to the previous solution.
• Significantly improved user experience with latency using native cloud-based content delivery features.