Client Background

Client name or descriptor: Leader in consumer electronics space

Industry: consumer electronics

Products or Services: Gift card system

Geography or Areas of operations: Worldwide

Number of customers: > 1 million

Challenge

The customer wanted to build a gift card system for their consumers to launch in time for the holiday season. The solution needed to be resilient and scaled to serve a million plus users. They had limited engineering strength to build the system and not enough time to upscale their engineering capabilities.

Solution

A multi-disciplinary POD team equipped with relevant technology and infrastructure expertise was provisioned in less than 3 weeks. Part of the team was co-located with customer and owned design to production responsibility in collaboration with customer product leader.

Built multi-Data Center (DC) Kubernetes POD-based system to meet performance and availability needs. Used Cassandra-based DC affinity approach for load balancing and high throughput.

Business Impact

On time launch with an improved user experience
High Availability of applications and the platform
Quicker diagnosis and request correlation via
Splunk logs and alerting