Sorin Dumitrescu

With the growth in popularity of online retailing and technological advancement, today, eCommerce customer expectations are sky-high. Over the last years, in particular, Amazon Prime and same-day delivery have fueled customers’ ‘want it now’ mentality.

It seems every organization tries to implement DevOps nowadays. Which, in theory, is not a bad thing.

The actual problem is rushing into things without fully understanding how DevOps works and viewing DevOps as the universal solution to all problems. This leads to poor implementation and, ultimately, not the desired results.

As the holiday season begins, Black Friday also gives the start to the annual e-commerce spike. With more and more customers choosing to do their shopping online, website bugs and conversion issues can result in missed sales opportunities or worse – customers crossing out your brand in favour of the competition.

Black Friday is the most important event of the year for eCommerce shops. However, it’s not a stress-free day for most online retailers. Why? Because there are many technical issues that can cause Black Friday website crashes.

One of the things that keep online shop owners awake at night is – will my website withstand the Black Friday traffic? As this is one of the most important days of the year, a downtime of even a few minutes can translate into thousands of dollars in losses.