Transforming Retail Delivery with Cloud-Native Microservices

Key Highlights

  • Reduced Costs: Pay-as-you-go model of AWS services optimizes infrastructure costs based on actual usage.
  • Increased Resilience: Independent microservices ensure that a failure in one service doesn’t bring down the entire platform.
  • Improved Developer Experience: Cloud-native development tools and CI/CD pipelines streamline development and deployment processes.
  • Improved Scalability: The microservices architecture with containerized deployment on ECS allows us to scale services independently based on demand.
  • Faster Innovation: We can now develop and deploy new features quickly without impacting existing functionalities.

The Customer

The customer is a regional grocery chain facing challenges with their legacy e-commerce platform.

Challenges:

  • Scalability Issues: During peak hours, the platform struggled to handle increased order volume, leading to slow loading times and outages.
  • Limited Innovation: The monolithic architecture made it difficult to implement new features and integrate with third-party services.
  • High Maintenance Costs: Maintaining the aging infrastructure was expensive and time-consuming.

Future Ready Solution: Frontlet Technologies adopted a cloud-native approach with microservices architecture on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

  • Microservices Architecture: The monolithic application was broken down into smaller, independent services responsible for specific functionalities like order processing, inventory management, and user authentication.
  • AWS Services:

Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS): Manages containerized microservices, ensuring scalability and efficient resource utilization.

Amazon API Gateway: Provides a unified interface for clients (mobile app, website) to access various microservices.

Amazon DynamoDB: NoSQL database offering high availability and fast performance for storing order data and product information.

Amazon SQS: Message queue for asynchronous communication between microservices, ensuring smooth order processing even during peak traffic.

  • CI/CD Pipeline: Implemented a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline for faster deployments and reduced risk of errors.

 The Outcome:

  • We experienced a significant improvement in platform performance with faster loading times and no downtime during peak hours.
  • Development cycles shortened, allowing for faster rollout of new features and functionalities for their e-commerce platform.
  • Overall operational costs reduced due to the efficient resource management of AWS and the elimination of maintenance for on-premise infrastructure.

Technology Stack

AWS Services

Project overview

This approach empowers businesses to adapt to changing customer demands and stay ahead of the competition in the ever-evolving retail landscape showcasing significant improvements in scalability, agility, and cost-effectiveness.