About

The client is the UK's largest online building materials retailer selling 100K products to over 182K active customers. Serving homeowners and tradespeople, the company made £76M+ in sales in 2021 and keeps growing about 47% year-on-year. Being a digital-first proposition, the company operates 10+ websites that must be reliable, flexible, and scalable to provide the best experience to customers. Read more

CASE STUDY DETAILS

Under MNDA

SME

Plymouth, United Kingdom

Team augmentation

1 - 5 people

Ongoing for 2 years

€50 - 250K

Agile

FOCUS AREA

Challenge, approach, and impact

  • Lack of Control

    All the client's sites were hosted in the data center. Communication with the vendor was built through the ticket system. The waiting time for an answer or problem resolution could last days or weeks, no matter how big or small the problem was.

  • Limited Scalability

    The client's infrastructure setup with separate servers for sites, its staging environment, database, and database staging led to scalability issues. Since only vertical scaling was possible, handling the increased workload and traffic demands took a lot of work.

  • Servers Overcapacity

    Even though the client operates the business in one country and could turn the difference in day and night traffic to their advantage, it wasn't the case. With a regular server, the team paid for max capacity no matter the actual numbers.

Testimonials

Two blue lines

“This collaboration has been a game-changer for us. With AWS migration, we gained complete control over our infrastructure, while the scalability enhancements significantly impacted system performance. Moreover, our CI/CD process has never been smoother.“ Read more

Anonymous

Lead Developer at SME

VERIFIED

Two blue lines

“This collaboration has been a game-changer for us. With AWS migration, we gained complete control over our infrastructure, while the scalability enhancements significantly impacted system performance. Moreover, our CI/CD process has never been smoother.“ Read more

Anonymous

Lead Developer at SME

VERIFIED

Two blue lines

“This collaboration has been a game-changer for us. With AWS migration, we gained complete control over our infrastructure, while the scalability enhancements significantly impacted system performance. Moreover, our CI/CD process has never been smoother.“ Read more

Anonymous

Lead Developer at SME

VERIFIED

Two blue lines

“This collaboration has been a game-changer for us. With AWS migration, we gained complete control over our infrastructure, while the scalability enhancements significantly impacted system performance. Moreover, our CI/CD process has never been smoother.“ Read more

Anonymous

Lead Developer at SME

VERIFIED

Two blue lines

“This collaboration has been a game-changer for us. With AWS migration, we gained complete control over our infrastructure, while the scalability enhancements significantly impacted system performance. Moreover, our CI/CD process has never been smoother.“ Read more

Anonymous

Lead Developer at SME

VERIFIED

Two blue lines

“This collaboration has been a game-changer for us. With AWS migration, we gained complete control over our infrastructure, while the scalability enhancements significantly impacted system performance. Moreover, our CI/CD process has never been smoother.“ Read more

Anonymous

Lead Developer at SME

VERIFIED

Team Structure

Client Team

Daily point of contact

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Lead Back-end Engineer

***** *****

The client stakeholders worked closely with the team at UppLabs

Client logo

Agency Team

Production

1 x Lead DevOps Engineer

Production

1 x DevOps Engineer

Governance

1 x PM

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