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Retail verified Verified Outcome TRL 9

Global E-commerce Microservices Migration

domain Client: A leading online fashion retailer handshake Provider: Microsoft Azure schedule Deploy: Q4 2017 (Milestone)
94 Impact
Enterprise Ready
Evidence Score: 5/10
Strength: Very High

Executive Summary

ANALYST: COI RESEARCH

To handle Black Friday traffic peaks (20,000+ orders/hour), the retailer re-architected its monolithic platform into a microservices architecture on Azure. Using Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), they achieved the global scale and elasticity required to serve 24 million customers across 200 markets.

rate_review Analyst Verdict

"A textbook cloud-native transformation. The move allowed the retailer to release features independently (speed to market) and scale the checkout service independently of the catalog (resilience). It demonstrates the value of PaaS over IaaS."

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warning The Challenge

The legacy on-premise monolith crashed during peak traffic events. Deploying new features required risky 'big bang' releases that threatened stability. The database layer could not handle the concurrent read/write volume of a global sale event.

psychology The Solution

The platform was broken down into distinct microservices (Bag, Checkout, Search). Azure Cosmos DB was selected for its multi-master replication to ensure low latency globally. AKS orchestrates the containers. Service Bus handles async messaging.

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Integrations
Inventory, Payments
Deployment Model
PaaS / Cloud Native
Data Classification
Transactional / PII
Estimated TCO / ROI
High
POC Summary (2016-01-01 to 2016-06-01)

"Initial migration of 'Saved Items' service."

shield Risk Register & Mitigation

Risk Factor Severity Mitigation Strategy
Complexity Medium Service mesh implementation; strict API contracts.
Cost Sprawl Medium FinOps governance on Cosmos DB RU provisioning.

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Audited value realization curve

Processing >30 orders per second Verified Outcome
Primary KPI99.99% platform availability during peaks
Audit CycleGlobal low-latency via Cosmos DB replication

policy Compliance & Gov

  • Standards: GDPR, PCI-DSS
  • Maturity (TRL): 9
  • Evidence Score: 5/10
  • Data Class: Transactional / PII

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Technical Audit
PDF • Audited
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How we verified these outcomes for A leading online fashion retailer without exposing sensitive IP or identities.

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1. Raw Evidence

Audit ID: #PRIV-838
Evidence: Direct SQL Logs
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2. Verified Asset

Outcome: Verified
Ref ID: #COI-838

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