Retail and Consumer - Case study - 25 December 2025

Scaling an omnichannel commerce platform for a UK retailer

Rapid channel growth had outpaced the legacy commerce stack, driving checkout instability and seasonal risk.

Client

National multichannel retailer

Sector

Retail and Consumer

Engagement

Cloud platform engineering, integration and SRE enablement

The challenge

What the client needed

Rapid channel growth had outpaced the legacy commerce stack, driving checkout instability and seasonal risk.

Our approach

How we worked

  • Re-architected key commerce services around high-traffic customer journeys.
  • Introduced SLOs and automated reliability controls in CI/CD pipelines.
  • Modernised integration contracts between ecommerce, stock and fulfilment systems.
  • Established a joint business-technology release readiness cadence.
Outcomes

Measured results

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  • Checkout availability improved to 99.96 percent during peak campaigns.
  • Deployment frequency increased 4x with lower rollback rate.
  • Platform unit cost per order reduced by 27 percent.

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