Building Scalable E-commerce Infrastructure on Magento

This article highlights the key challenges Ruroc faced and the solutions they implemented. It serves as a guide for developers to build scalable e-commerce infrastructure on Magento while avoiding similar pitfalls.

Introduction

At Ruroc, the process of building the infrastructure to handle over 12,000 concurrent users on Black Friday with no drop in performance took over 3 months and a lot of trial and error. This article summarises the key obstacles we ran into and how we fixed them. It can act as a guide to help other developers build scalable e-commerce infrastructure on Magento and avoid the pitfalls we encountered.

Despite its use across over 100,000 e-commerce sites, including large-scale stores like Helly Hansen and Ford, there’s not a lot of publicly available information on how to run Magento at scale. [1] Our hype-drop business model relied on ...