AWS Startups Blog
Tag: Retail
How GOAT Uses Cloud Tech to Scale Black Friday Operations
Based in Los Angeles, GOAT is the largest marketplace for buying and selling authenticated sneakers.
How Metail Takes the Guesswork Out of Online Shopping
Another startup bringing innovation to the changing industry is Metail, a developer of technology that enables users to virtually try on clothes and easily switch between potential outfit combinations.
How Spring Prepares for the Holiday Shopping Frenzy
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.
From 0 to 100 K in seconds: Instant Scale with AWS Lambda
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 […]
Accelerating Innovation with Microservices Powered by MongoDB and 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.
Always On, Always Fast, Always Reliable: Building Customer Trust at Tito
Tito is a web application for selling tickets online that focuses strongly on user experience for both event organizers and their attendees. The core of a great user experience is trust. For a web application, that starts with reliability. In this blog post, the CTO explains how they’ve built a zero-downtime infrastructure to maximize reliability and customer trust.