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Elastic Path
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Elastic Path

Headless Commerce Platform Operations

Enterprise Commerce Infrastructure

Year

2021

Role

Technical Operations Lead

Technologies
AWSKubernetesMicroservicesMonitoring

Drove technical operations for a headless commerce platform serving major retail brands, ensuring platform reliability and scaling for peak traffic periods.

The Challenge

Elastic Path's enterprise customers required 99.99% uptime during critical shopping periods like Black Friday, while continuously shipping new features and maintaining API backwards compatibility.

Our Approach

Led technical operations including incident management, capacity planning, and release engineering. Implemented full monitoring and automated scaling to handle traffic spikes of 10x normal volume.

Results

  • 🎯 99.99% uptime during peak periods
  • 📈 Handled 10x traffic spikes without incident
  • 🚀 Continuous deployment with zero downtime
  • 🔧 Reduced incident response time by 60%

Key Takeaway

Enterprise commerce platforms require operational excellence - every minute of downtime directly impacts revenue.

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