I imagine that Black Friday and Christmas are the busiest periods for the shipping industry as a whole. How did those two major events work out for you with all these changes to the new system that started six months ago? So secure the idea of what our normal sort of daily volume is and maybe set the scene a bit. We were normally about 12,000 orders a day, I think. And on the ramp up to Black Friday from about the 20th of November, we were up to at least 20,000 a day. On Black Friday, 31,000 was our biggest day of orders.
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Eight months ago, in π§ episode 49, Alex Sims (Solutions Architect & Senior Software Engineer at James & James) shared with us his ambition to help migrate a monolithic PHP app running on AWS EC2 to a more modern architecture. The idea was some serverless, some EKS, and many incremental improvements.
So how did all of this work out in practice? How did the improved system cope with the Black Friday peak, as well as all the following Christmas orders? Thank you Alex for sharing with us your Ship It! inspired Kaizen story. Itβs a wonderful Christmas present! ππ
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