Retail & E-commerce · 2025

Zero-downtime cloud migration for a high-traffic retail platform

Demo content

41%

lower infrastructure cost

01 Project overview

A retailer with 3M monthly visitors needed to exit an aging data center before peak season without risking revenue.

02 Business challenge

A monolithic commerce platform and 120 virtual machines with poorly documented dependencies.
Previous peak events caused outages costing an estimated $250k per hour.
The data-center lease expired in nine months.

03 Solution architecture

How it was built.

Edge

Global CDN, WAF and bot protection in front of all traffic.

Compute

Containerized storefront on Kubernetes with horizontal autoscaling.

Data

Managed PostgreSQL with read replicas and online migration.

Operations

GitOps deployments, SLO dashboards and automated rollback.

Technologies used

04 Implementation approach

01 · Discover
Automated dependency mapping and 7R disposition for all workloads.
02 · Migrate
Five migration waves, each with rehearsed runbooks and rollback plans.
03 · Optimize
Rightsizing, savings plans and autoscaling tuned before peak season.

05 Results & impact

“We went into peak season on new infrastructure and it was the calmest Black Friday we've had.”

— VP Engineering (Demo testimonial)

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Planning a data-center exit or a migration before your busiest season? Let’s map the waves together.