Fortune 100 retailer
Black Friday, without the war room.
Commerce re-platformed onto event-driven infrastructure that absorbed an 11× traffic surge — no incident bridge required.
11×
surge absorbed, no incident
99.99%
peak availability
0
war rooms since
Timeline
9 months, shipped before peak season
Built with
- Kafka
- Go
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- OpenTelemetry
The problem
Every November: a war room, a code freeze from September, and an outage budget measured in millions per minute. Growth had outrun the platform.
What we built
An event-driven commerce core with cell-based isolation — checkout, inventory, and pricing scale independently, and a failure in one cell strands one percent of traffic, not all of it.
