Auction House Cuts Scaling Time by 50% With Modernization

Digital transformation delivers real-time bidding across 400+ deployments

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Supported 100s of white-labeled solutions.

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Implemented 10s of integrations across 100s of instances.

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No downtime over subsequent auction sessions.

Client Overview

A leading auction platform enabled traditional auction houses to go digital channels by providing a platform tailored to support timed online sales, live audience participation, and more.

As their client base grew to hundreds of auction houses worldwide, they faced the challenge of scaling a highly flexible, white-labeled solution while maintaining security, reliability, and speed.

Challenges

Modernizing their core platform and delivering a scalable, future-ready architecture presented several challenges.

White-label overload

Maintaining 400+ white-labeled apps with custom configurations and branding overwhelmed engineering and slowed feature rollouts across the ecosystem.

Integration complexity

Point-to-point third-party integrations created system fragility, amplified production risks, and complicated new partner onboarding processes.

Growing identity sprawl

The lack of centralized access control and identity management led to error-prone deployments and rising security risks as users scaled globally.

Solution

We took complete ownership of their engineering and implemented a comprehensive modernization that transformed their platform.

Microservices architecture

We decomposed the monolithic platform into containerized services, enabling independent scaling and improved performance of critical services like bidding, payments, and inventory.

Automated deployments

Built configuration-driven deployment pipelines to manage releases across hundreds of white-labeled instances efficiently, reducing manual coordination and operational overhead.

Message bus integration

Replaced point-to-point integrations with standardized message bus architecture, improving communication protocols and reducing system dependencies for better reliability.

Centralized identity management

Implemented unified authentication system with multi-tenant data isolation, providing secure access control and simplified credential management across all platform instances.

Business Impact

The modernized platform delivered significant operational improvements and positioned the client for continued growth in the digital auction space.

Operational efficiency

Simplified management of 400+ white-label instances with unique branding for each and reduced release coordination across platforms.

Uncompromised data privacy

No security breaches, thanks to robust multi-tenant architecture with isolated data stores and centralized authentication protocols.

Cost efficiency

Serverless architecture and auto-scaling lowered infrastructure expenses while maintaining peak performance during high-traffic auction events.

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