Carrefour Spain
Flexible microservices in the cloud provide ideal experiences for vendors and customers
Industry
Customer application
- E-commerce microservices
NoSQL solution
Use case
- Caching
- Session store
- User profile store
- Product catalog
Product
Key features
- Multi-dimensional scaling
Carrefour is one of the world’s largest retailers with over 1,000 stores in Spain alone. Carrefour Spain also manages an online marketplace with over 1,500 vendors and 3 million products. When their monolithic e-commerce platform became too unwieldy to manage efficiently, Carrefour Spain decided to transition to a microservices platform in the cloud. Couchbase enables Carrefour to meet all their microservices objectives, including fast time to market, integrated cache and database, and no downtime during peak traffic.
CHALLENGES
- Create a 100% cloud-native solution that simplifies and decouples the e-commerce architecture to minimize breaking points
- Reduce time to market with a flexible solution for creating and deploying a wide variety of e-commerce applications, from inventory to click & collect
- Provide high-speed caching to easily manage peaks like Black Friday and Cyber Monday with no downtime and fast response times
OUTCOMES
- Couchbase’s cloud-first architecture makes it fast and easy to develop decoupled microservices and to scale applications independently
- Applications sustain performance of 20,000 operations/second even under extreme load spikes of up to 4x normal workload
- Average response times are less than 3 milliseconds, oftentimes submillisecond