Client: Shopping Cart Platform
Services Provided: E-commerce Development, Cloud Infrastructure, Performance Optimization
Technologies: PHP Laravel, MySQL, AWS (Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, ECR, ECS, Docker, ElastiCache, RDS, CloudFormation, S3), Stripe Payment Gateway

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.