What the Client Was Facing
A national retail chain suffered 2–3 hours of downtime per deployment on their order management system. Black Friday was approaching and the business could not afford downtime during the peak trading window.
What ZippyOPS Was Engaged To Do
ZippyOPS was brought in to design and implement a solution addressing the root causes of the client's challenges — delivering measurable outcomes within a fixed engagement timeline. Our team worked embedded with the client's engineers throughout the entire project.
How We Solved It
ZippyOPS implemented a blue-green deployment architecture on AWS ECS with ALB traffic switching. Database schema migrations were made backward-compatible using Liquibase and a deployment runbook with automated health checks and one-click rollback was built and tested.
Technologies Used
Measurable Outcomes Delivered
Zero deployment downtime achieved — first ever downtime-free release
Black Friday trading window protected — 3 releases deployed with no customer impact
Mean time to rollback reduced from 2 hours to 4 minutes
Deployment confidence increased — team frequency doubled within 30 days
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