Retail Transformation Case Study

Key Highlights

We transformed a legacy retail platform into a modern, scalable architecture that handles 100M+ monthly transactions

300% Growth

Sustainable scaling without infrastructure overhauls

99.95% Uptime

Zero downtime during global sales and holidays

35% Cost Savings

Optimized cloud spend with intelligent auto-scaling

Tools & Technologies

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

Monitoring

CDN

NoSQL DB

Message Queue

Analytics

The Challenge

RetailCo's legacy monolithic architecture was unable to handle surges during holiday sales. The platform experienced 5-8 outages annually and faced $2M+ in annual losses from downtime.

Technical Challenges

Outages during peak hours
3000+ errors daily
Inflexible data architecture

The Solution

We redesigned their stack as a microservices-based platform supporting real-time analytics, automated scaling, and global load balancing. Key components:

Architectural Overhaul

Kubernetes-managed services with automated rolling updates across 8 global regions

Performance Monitoring

Real-time metrics dashboard for anomaly detection and automated failover

Cost Optimization

Auto-scaling based on real-time traffic patterns with reserved instance management

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Results Achieved

100% Uptime

No outages during Black Friday 2023 with 400k+ concurrent users

$4.2M Saved

Annual savings through infrastructure optimization

85% Faster

Page load speeds with optimized CDNs and caching

Alex Morgan

CTO, RetailCo

"Working with Elbifa was a game-changer for our infrastructure. Their team helped us transition to a cloud-native architecture that has kept our global e-commerce operations running flawlessly since 2022."

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