DevOps Consulting for E-commerce
E-commerce infrastructure is judged on a handful of days a year. A checkout that falls over during your biggest campaign burns the ad spend that drove the traffic and the customer trust that took years to build — while capacity sized for that one day quietly drains money the other 360. The whole game is elasticity: scale that arrives when traffic does and leaves when it goes, with a deploy pipeline safe enough to use in November.
Peak events take the site down
The campaign works, traffic spikes 10×, and the site — or just the checkout — buckles. Every minute down during a sale is ad spend converting into brand damage instead of orders.
How we fix it — Load-tested autoscaling tuned to your real traffic shape: horizontal pod autoscaling on the signals that actually precede saturation, pre-scaling for planned campaigns, database connection pooling and cache layers that fail soft. Then we prove it with a load test, not a promise.
Code freezes eat your best quarter
Deploys feel so risky that engineering freezes from November to January — precisely when merchandising needs landing pages, pricing changes and fixes shipped fastest.
How we fix it — Zero-downtime progressive delivery with automatic rollback: releases go out behind canaries taking a slice of real traffic, and anything unhealthy reverts in seconds. Teams ship through peak season instead of around it.
You pay for Black Friday capacity in April
Infrastructure sized for peak runs at a fraction of utilisation the rest of the year — pure margin leak, in a business where margin is already thin.
How we fix it — Capacity follows load: autoscaling down as well as up, scheduled scaling for known quiet hours, spot capacity for stateless tiers, and right-sizing from real utilisation data. Typical result is a materially smaller baseline bill with more peak headroom, not less.
Checkout is slow, and slow checkouts leak revenue
Every 100 ms on the purchase path measurably cuts conversion; a checkout that also touches card data pulls PCI DSS scope across your whole stack if the architecture is careless.
How we fix it — Edge caching and CDN strategy for everything cacheable, a lean low-latency path for what is not, golden-signal monitoring on the funnel itself — and a checkout architecture that keeps card data inside your payment provider’s scope, not yours.
Built for the days that pay for the year.
Retail infrastructure cannot be averaged. We design for the traffic shape of commerce — spiky, seasonal, campaign-driven — and make the platform prove it before your customers do.
- Load-tested, not hopedSynthetic load against production-shaped environments before every peak season — capacity limits found on our schedule, not Black Friday’s.
- Funnel-first monitoringAlerts on checkout conversion and payment success, not just CPU — the metrics that are money.
- PCI-aware by designCard data stays with your payment processor; segmentation and TLS keep the rest of the stack out of audit scope.
- Cost that breathesScale-up for campaigns, scale-down for Tuesdays at 3 a.m. — elasticity in both directions.
Two free tools, no signup: estimate your cloud waste with the cost calculator, or score your production posture on the security scorecard. Fixed-scope packages and prices are on the pricing page.
Frequently asked
Can you get us ready for Black Friday / our peak season?
Yes — ideally starting 6–8 weeks out. We load-test against your real traffic shape, fix the bottlenecks it exposes (usually database connections, cache stampedes and undersized autoscaling), set up pre-scaling for campaign moments, and leave you with a rehearsed runbook for the day itself.
We are on Shopify/BigCommerce for the storefront — is there anything to do?
Often yes: the storefront may be managed, but search, recommendations, ERP integrations, custom checkout steps and data pipelines usually run on your own infrastructure — and those are exactly what falls over under peak load. We harden the stack around the platform.
Does PCI DSS apply to us if we use Stripe or a payment gateway?
A gateway dramatically shrinks your scope but does not remove it — how your pages load the payment form, what your servers can touch, and network segmentation still matter. We architect so you stay in the lightest assessment band (SAQ A/A-EP) instead of drifting into full scope.
Survive the spike. Stop paying for it year-round.
A free audit of your stack against peak readiness and baseline waste — where it will break under 10× load, and what you are overpaying between campaigns.
NO SIGNUP · NO OBLIGATION · REPORT IS YOURS TO KEEP