Rakuten now stores, manages and distributes over 150 million assets with Scaleflex, after migrating 22 TB of images. The online marketplace for new and used products was running an aging platform that had reached its limits on scalability. Scaleflex built a customised API and ran the migration through CDN calls and natural traffic, which kept disruption to a minimum and laid the foundation for categorisation and distribution at scale.
The Company
Rakuten is the leading online platform for buying and selling new and used products, whether supplied by merchants or private individuals. They were working with an outdated platform that was unable to handle the volumes of assets stored, managed and distributed by the Rakuten marketplace.
The Challenge
Rakuten was operating with an aging platform that had reached its limits in terms of scalability, proving insufficient for the huge volume of assets managed by the marketplace. To support growth and maintain performance, Rakuten needed to modernize how assets were stored, categorized and distributed at scale.
The Solution
“The teams are quick to respond to our queries and fix any bugs we raise. The tool is easy to use and the APIs well documented.”
Thibaut Simond
Responsable Infrastructure
Scaleflex set up a customized API for Rakuten to streamline migration of a very large asset library. The implementation leveraged CDN calls so the migration could occur via natural traffic, minimizing disruption and enabling a rapid rollout. This approach modernized how assets are handled and laid the groundwork for scalable categorization and distribution.
The Results
Thanks to its partnership with Scaleflex, Rakuten was able to: store, manage and distribute over 150 million assets; migrate 22 TB of images; distribute more quickly and easily; categorize their images.
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Yes. Scaleflex set up a customised API for Rakuten and migrated 22 TB of images using CDN calls and natural traffic, with minimal disruption.
Rakuten now stores, manages and distributes over 150 million assets, with support for advanced categorisation and distribution at scale.
Rakuten's Responsable Infrastructure describes the tool as easy to use and the APIs as well documented, with teams quick to respond to queries and fix bugs raised.
