Industry
E-commerce / Retail
Technologies
React.js, Kubernetes, MongoDB, AWS
About Our Client
The client is a global online retail company specializing in fashion and lifestyle products. Their monolithic e-commerce platform struggled to keep up with growing traffic and evolving customer expectations, particularly during seasonal sales and promotional events.
Challenge
The client faced several major issues with their existing platform:
- Performance Limitations: Slow page load times and poor responsiveness under heavy traffic loads.
- Downtime During Peaks: Frequent outages and degraded user experience during sales events.
- Scalability Constraints: Inflexible architecture hindered rapid scaling and feature rollout.
- Complex Maintenance: Monolithic codebase made updates risky and time-consuming.
- Limited Agility: Difficulty adapting quickly to market trends and customer demands.
Solution
Celestial Infosoft collaborated closely with the client to redesign their e-commerce platform based on a modern microservices architecture.
Key Deliverables:
- Monolith Analysis & Decomposition: Identified core components and planned incremental migration to microservices.
- Microservices Development: Built independent services for catalog, user management, orders, payments, and inventory using Spring Boot and Docker.
- Container Orchestration: Deployed services on Kubernetes for automated scaling and management.
- Frontend Revamp: Redesigned frontend using React.js to improve performance and responsiveness.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Migrated platform to AWS cloud for enhanced availability and global reach.
- CI/CD Implementation: Set up pipelines for continuous integration and delivery to accelerate development cycles.
Project Highlights
- Reduced page load time by 50%
- Achieved 99.9% uptime during peak shopping periods
- Enabled automatic scaling to handle traffic spikes
- Improved developer productivity with the modular codebase
- Accelerated deployment of new features and updates
Results
- Enhanced customer experience leading to higher conversion rates
- Minimized downtime and performance bottlenecks during high-traffic events
- Greater business agility allows for rapid response to market changes
- Streamlined maintenance and easier future upgrades
- Strong foundation for further innovation and integrations
Technologies and Tools
- Backend: Java Spring Boot, Docker, Kubernetes
- Frontend: React.js
- Database: MongoDB
- Cloud: AWS (EC2, EKS, S3)
- DevOps: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD
- Monitoring: Prometheus, Grafana
Client Feedback
“Celestial Infosoft transformed our outdated platform into a nimble, scalable solution that handles our busiest days without breaking a sweat. Their expertise in microservices and cloud helped us unlock new growth opportunities.”
– Client Says
