Tag: Ecommerce

From the beginning, the Glossier team set out to build a great technology company. Creating a beauty brand was of course also necessary, but that almost seemed like table stakes, per Bryan Mahoney, Glossier’s Chief Technology Officer.

Based in Los Angeles, GOAT is the largest marketplace for buying and selling authenticated sneakers.

GotSpot is a digital marketplace that connects small enterprises in need of short-term space to existing brick-and-mortar businesses who have available, non-traditional space that could be better maximized. Think Airbnb, but for commercial spaces.

While most people know Rent the Runway as the country’s leading lender of LBDs and workwear, the nine-year old startup also happens to be the country’s largest dry-cleaning business. As Rent The Runway CTO Josh Builder notes, the company turns around, on average, 50,000 to 55,000 items on a daily basis—over 65,000 during peak seasons and holidays—and 100% of that inventory comes back to them.

As veritable stylists and dry-cleaning experts, Rent the Runway must keep track of not only the latest fashion trends, but also a wide variety of inventory and chemical mixes to keep their clothes in red-carpet shape. To do this, RTR is shifting many of their operations to the cloud. Watch to see how they pulled it off.

SeatGeek data scientists Andy Enkeboll and Tiffany Hu explain how they used AWS to help make their data more easily accessible for both themselves and the larger SeatGeek team.

This holiday season, spare a thought for the beleaguered store clerks throughout the shopping malls and big-box stores of America. And send good vibes to any engineers and developers who work for e-commerce sites, such as Spring, because they too are working overtime to help us survive the madness.

Guest post by Michael Mendlawy, Senior developer, Crazylister “What is the best infrastructure for processing massive amounts of requests at unpredictable times?” In this blog post, we describe what led us to ask this question and how AWS Lambda helped us answer it. Before we dive into the nuts and bolts of the solution, a […]

  Guest post by Philip West, Founder, Vidora Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) has dominated the tech headlines throughout 2016, and it shows no signs of letting up as we kick off 2017. While the tech giants push A.I. in their own specific ways, many other businesses are looking for solutions to stay up to speed and […]

In this post, we review how VigLink cut costs by 15% with its strategic use of AWS.

Comparethemarket.com is one of the UK’s leading providers of price comparison services, and also one of the country’s most well-known household brands because of its meerkat marketing campaigns. But its popularity didn’t come from clever marketing alone.