Retail & E-commerce
Real-time pricing platform for a national retailer
A cloud-native pricing engine that recomputes millions of price points in near real-time.
2M+SKUs handled
<1 minprice propagation
-40%infra cost per SKU
The challenge
The retailer priced a catalogue of over 2 million SKUs on a nightly batch job. Price updates could take a full day, and elasticity experiments were effectively impossible.
The approach
We rebuilt the engine as event-driven microservices over a stream-processing backbone, with a rules layer that marketing could adjust in minutes. Rollout was gradual behind feature flags.
The outcome
Price updates now propagate in under a minute. The team runs continuous elasticity experiments, and infrastructure cost per million SKUs dropped by roughly 40%.