A headless storefront that takes peak season in stride.
A headless storefront and re-engineered checkout for a high-volume retailer, rebuilt to take peak-season traffic without the annual firefight.
Overview
Orbit Commerce is a high-volume retailer whose monolith crawled every peak season. We split the storefront into a headless front end on the edge, rebuilt the checkout, and load-tested it against ten times peak traffic.
The challenge
The monolith slowed to a crawl every peak season, and a clunky checkout was leaking revenue on mobile.
Our approach
Headless on the edge
We split the storefront into a headless front end served from the edge, so pages render close to the shopper and load in under a second.
Rebuilt checkout
A re-engineered checkout that stops leaking revenue on mobile and holds up when orders spike.
Tested to 10× peak
Load-tested against ten times peak traffic so the biggest weekend of the year runs without a single incident.
Headless storefront
Rebuilt checkout
Conversion and revenue
Peak-season resilience
Results
Pages now load in under a second, conversion climbed, and the peak weekend ran without a single incident.
We came with a vague idea and left with a platform our whole company runs on. On time, on budget.
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