Sundry Markets
Sundry Markets is a fast-growing e-commerce platform specializing in curated grocery and specialty goods. As their business expanded, they faced challenges in managing their legacy infrastructure, scaling during peak demand, and ensuring a seamless customer experience.
To modernize their digital presence, Sundry Markets partnered with Softgem to build their e-commerce website and mobile app using cloud-native technologies, DevOps practices, and a scalable architecture.
Industry Vertical
Ecommerce
Ecommerce
The Challenges
Legacy Infrastructure Limitations:
- Monolithic architecture led to slow deployments and difficulty in scaling.
- High downtime during traffic spikes.
Slow Development Cycles:
- Manual deployments caused delays in feature releases.
- Lack of CI/CD pipelines increased human errors.
Security & Compliance Risks:
- PCI-DSS compliance for payments was not fully optimized.
- Vulnerability to DDoS attacks and data breaches.
To overcome these challenges, Sundry Markets needed:
❖ Scalability & Performance: Ensure the platform can handle high traffic, especially during sales and holiday seasons.
❖ Faster Deployment Cycles: Reduce time-to-market for new features and updates.
❖ Seamless Omnichannel Experience: Unify web and mobile app experiences for customers.
❖ Cost Optimization: Improve infrastructure efficiency while reducing operational costs.
❖ Enhanced Security & Compliance: Implement robust security measures for payment processing and user data.
Legacy Infrastructure Limitations:
- Monolithic architecture led to slow deployments and difficulty in scaling.
- High downtime during traffic spikes.
Slow Development Cycles:
- Manual deployments caused delays in feature releases.
- Lack of CI/CD pipelines increased human errors.
Security & Compliance Risks:
- PCI-DSS compliance for payments was not fully optimized.
- Vulnerability to DDoS attacks and data breaches.
To overcome these challenges, Sundry Markets needed:
❖ Scalability & Performance: Ensure the platform can handle high traffic, especially during sales and holiday seasons.
❖ Faster Deployment Cycles: Reduce time-to-market for new features and updates.
❖ Seamless Omnichannel Experience: Unify web and mobile app experiences for customers.
❖ Cost Optimization: Improve infrastructure efficiency while reducing operational costs.
❖ Enhanced Security & Compliance: Implement robust security measures for payment processing and user data.
Solution
Softgem proposed a cloud-native transformation using AWS for scalability,
Key components delivered include:
- Migration to Microservices:
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- Decomposed the monolithic app into scalable microservices.
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- Used AWS EKS for container management.
- CI/CD Automation:
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- Implemented GitHub Actions & AWS CodePipeline for automated testing and deployments.
- Performance Optimization:
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- Used Amazon CloudFront CDN for faster content delivery.
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- Implemented Redis caching for high-speed data retrieval.
- Security Enhancements:
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- AWS WAF & Shield for DDoS protection.
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- PCI-DSS compliant payment processing.
Softgem proposed a cloud-native transformation using AWS for scalability, Key components delivered include:
- Migration to Microservices:
- - Decomposed the monolithic app into scalable microservices.
- - Used AWS EKS for container management.
- CI/CD Automation:
- - Implemented GitHub Actions & AWS CodePipeline for automated testing and deployments.
- Performance Optimization:
- - Used Amazon CloudFront CDN for faster content delivery.
- - Implemented Redis caching for high-speed data retrieval.
- Security Enhancements:
- - AWS WAF & Shield for DDoS protection.
- - PCI-DSS compliant payment processing.
Results
- Improved Scalability & Uptime:
Auto-scaling reduced infrastructure costs by 30%.
- Enhanced Customer Experience: Unified cart & checkout across web and mobile.
- Cost Optimization: Reduced server costs by 25% with AWS Spot Instances
and automated scaling saved infrastructure costs.
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Security & Compliance: Achieved PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance.
and Zero security breaches post-migration.
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Monitoring & Alerting: AWS CloudWatch for real-time performance tracking, Sentry & New Relic for error monitoring.
and Automated alerts for downtime & security threats.
- Improved Scalability & Uptime: Auto-scaling reduced infrastructure costs by 30%.
- Enhanced Customer Experience: Unified cart & checkout across web and mobile.
- Cost Optimization: Reduced server costs by 25% with AWS Spot Instances and automated scaling saved infrastructure costs.
- Security & Compliance: Achieved PCI-DSS Level 1 compliance. and Zero security breaches post-migration.
- Monitoring & Alerting: AWS CloudWatch for real-time performance tracking, Sentry & New Relic for error monitoring. and Automated alerts for downtime & security threats.
