Executive Summary
Our Customer
Gorgany is a huge retail, wholesale & distribution company of outdoor equipment in Ukraine. The company specializes in wholesale trade of goods for tourism, mountaineering, skiing, and active recreation.
The Obstacles They Faced
After the successful lift-and-shift migration conducted by Romexsoft, Gorgany requested to build a new system that would match their business demands at that moment: the increased amount of goods they offer for selling as well as the substantially increased traffic on their online store.
How We Helped
Romexsoft rebuilt the e-commerce solution for the client to meet the new essential business requirements and up-to-date market demands.
The Challenge
Gorgany cooperates with a great number of world brands and serves thousands of businesses and customers every day. The smooth operation of their system as well as the ability to scale are cornerstones of the client’s business continuity and operations.
The new e-commerce platform which the client needed to have had developed had to include the majority of crucial e-commerce features such as:
- shopping carts
- order processing
- fast and relevant items search
- promo campaigns management
- integration with third-party payment systems (Platon, Monobank)
- integration with third-party delivery services
Romexsoft’s main aim for this project was to ensure stable operation of the whole client’s platform at any possible load level as well as keep the best possible cost-effectiveness for the IT infrastructure of the provided solution. And furthermore, rebuilded software had to be highly adaptable, scalable, secure and reliable.
The Solution
Having a big expertise in building and delivering AWS infrastructures for marketplaces for another client Omnyfy (about 20 Customer Launches) Romexsoft suggested Gorgany to utilize Adobe Commerce (earlier Magento E-commerce) on the AWS-based cloud infrastructure. It ensures stable performance of the solution at any load and a wide range of e-commerce features out of the box.
How the application was rebuilt
After successful migration of the solution to the AWS cloud, the next phase was to split the monolith web application into microservices which are running on AWS ECS containers.
Here is the description of the microservices architecture in detail:
- Adobe (Magento) frontend for optimization of the storefront customization and for the display of platform UI for end users
- Adobe (Magento) admin service for simple and easy configuration and administration of the online store
- Adobe (Magento) search service with OpenSearch implementation for convenient and fast catalog and global search on the platform
- Akeneo – product information management (PIM) platform – for efficient content management and harmonization of product information
- Caching service with ElastiCache and Varnish for caching queries to DB, HTML caching and overall sessions handling
- AWS RDS MySQL as a main data layer
- S3/CloudFront (CDN) for static assets to ensure fast loading of store web pages.
The following infrastructure improvements were implemented on the platform: from now on it has two additional separate environments – staging and production. The staging environment replicates production, which helps in two vital ways. First of all, it helps to emulate and observe how the application functions in real conditions. Secondly, it creates a secure place for the development team to experiment with the application features as well as its PoC without any risk to affect the production.
Moreover, according to the AWS Well-Architected Framework, the developers get access only to the staging environment, and the access to the production environment is allowed for the authorized personnel only.
Amazon Web Services Utilized:
- AWS ECS (Fargate)
- AWS RDS MySQL 8.0
- EC2 for Akeneo service
- Bastion host and VPN server
- Elastic Load Balancing
- Amazon ElastiCache
- Amazon Elastic File System (EFS)
- Amazon OpenSearch Service
- AWS S3
- AWS CloudFront
E-Commerce Platform on AWS Containers for a Retailer – Architecture Diagram
What We Achieved Together
Now Gorgany.com is a usable, well-functioning, and reliable e-commerce website delivering the best customer experience in their niche on the local market.
Key deliverables:
- Sales boost due to shortening customer’s path from initial search to the check-out
- Stable and secure e-commerce solution designed to withstand any load level
- Scalable and flexible microservices architecture based on client’s business needs
Verified by AWS
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It showcases the value that Romexsoft, being a certified AWS Consulting Partner, delivers cloud solutions according to AWS standards and best practices.
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Why Romexsoft
Romexsoft is an AWS-certified Consulting Partner, trusted Software Development Company and Managed Service Provider, founded in 2004. We help customer-centric companies build, run, and optimize their cloud systems on AWS with creative, elegant, and cost-efficient solutions.
Our key values
- Delivery of quality solutions
- Customer satisfaction
- Long-term partnership
We have successfully delivered 100+ projects and have a proven track record in FinTech, HealthCare, AdTech, and Media industries.
Romexsoft possesses a 5-star rating on Clutch due to its strong expertise, responsiveness, and commitment. 60% of our clients have been working with us for over 4 years.
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Adobe Commerce Development on AWS FAQ
The microservices architecture enhances the functionality of an e-commerce platform by splitting the application into smaller, independent services. Each service, running in its own process and communicating with lightweight mechanisms, can be developed, deployed, and scaled independently. This architecture allows for better scalability, easier debugging and maintenance, and the ability to use different technologies for different services.
AWS services play a crucial role in optimizing an e-commerce platform. AWS ECS (Elastic Container Service) provides a highly scalable, fast, container management service that makes it easy to run, stop, and manage Docker containers on a cluster. AWS RDS MySQL offers cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks. ElastiCache improves the speed of web applications by allowing you to retrieve information from fast, managed, in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases. CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) that delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds.
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