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Retail

Scaling E-commerce Operations During Peak Seasons

Leveraging auto-scaling and managed services to support a multi-national retailer's explosive growth during holiday campaigns.

Solution
Auto-Scaling E-commerce
Industry
Retail
Company Size
20,000+ Employees

Project Overview

client
Global Retailer
industry
Retail
solution
Infrastructure Scaling
technologies
Azure VM Scale Sets
duration
5 Months
region
Global

The Challenge

Black Friday traffic spikes regularly caused site degradation.

  • 1Inflexible on-premise servers
  • 2Lost revenue during downtime

Our Solution

Implemented Azure VM Scale Sets and Azure Front Door for global load balancing.

  • Global CDN and Load Balancing
  • Database auto-scaling

The Results

3x
Faster Load Times
Zero
Downtime during Black Friday
  • Record-breaking sales processed smoothly

Technologies Used

Azure VM Scale SetsAzure Front Door

We handled 10x our normal traffic without a single hiccup.

Emily Watson
Emily Watson
VP of Engineering

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