Project Overview:
The client required a robust e-commerce platform to handle high traffic, with over 50,000 daily users purchasing products like Shamagh, Ghutrah, and innerwear. The project’s key focus was to ensure a seamless shopping experience, secure payment integration using Stripe, and the ability to handle a large volume of users and transactions without performance degradation.
Challenges:
- Building an architecture that can handle a high volume of daily users and transactions.
- Ensuring secure and reliable payment processing through Stripe.
- Maintaining site performance and availability under heavy load.
- Implementing auto-scaling to accommodate fluctuating traffic patterns.
Solution Delivered:
- E-commerce Platform Development:
- Built the shopping cart application using PHP Laravel and MySQL for the back-end, ensuring the platform was scalable, secure, and fast.
- Large-Scale Project Architecture:
- Designed a high-performance architecture using AWS services like Load Balancing and Auto Scaling to ensure the platform could handle over 50,000 daily users with ease.
- CloudFormation templates were used to set up the entire infrastructure, enabling quick and efficient scaling as per traffic demands.
- Payment Gateway Integration:
- Integrated Stripe as the payment gateway, ensuring secure and seamless transactions for users purchasing products. This allowed for a smooth checkout experience.
- Cloud Infrastructure Setup:
- Deployed the application using Docker containers managed by AWS ECS, ensuring efficient resource usage and scalability.
- Utilized AWS RDS for secure and scalable database management and AWS S3 for storage of product images and other assets.
- Performance Optimization & Scaling:
- Configured AWS ElastiCache for caching frequently accessed data, significantly improving application load times and reducing database load.
- Implemented AWS Auto Scaling to automatically adjust resources based on traffic fluctuations, ensuring optimal performance at all times.
- Security & Traffic Management:
- Integrated Cloudflare to provide an additional layer of security against DDoS attacks and to improve website performance through content delivery network (CDN) services.
- Designed a Bastion server architecture to manage secure connections to the servers, ensuring enhanced security for the system infrastructure.
Roles & Responsibilities
- Architecture Design & Requirement Analysis:
- Analyzed the project requirements to design a scalable architecture capable of handling large volumes of traffic and transactions.
- Server Configuration & High Traffic Management:
- Configured high-performance servers using AWS services, ensuring the platform could handle heavy user traffic seamlessly.
- Security Integration:
- Implemented Cloudflare integration for security and speed optimization, and designed a secure bastion server architecture for managing server access.
Outcome
The shopping cart website was successfully developed and deployed, resulting in:
- Seamless shopping experience for over 50,000 daily users, with quick page load times and high availability during peak traffic.
- Secure payment processing through Stripe, offering users confidence in their transactions.
- Efficient scaling and cost management, with AWS Auto Scaling automatically adjusting resources based on real-time traffic demands.
- Improved performance and security, thanks to the use of Cloudflare and Bastion server architecture.
The client achieved a robust, scalable, and secure platform capable of supporting their growing user base and product range, with minimal downtime and high performance.
