The Challenge
ShopEase's monolithic ASP.NET MVC application crashed every sale event due to database bottlenecks — losing ₹50 Lakhs revenue per outage. Their 12-developer team could deploy only once every 3 weeks because every change required full regression. Scaling required provisioning the entire monolith, not just bottleneck components.
Our Solution
VFL Technologies decomposed the monolith into 9 domain-bounded microservices (Catalog, Inventory, Order, Payment, Shipping, Customer, Notification, Analytics, API Gateway). Each service has its own database (polyglot persistence), communicates via Azure Service Bus for async events and gRPC for sync calls, and deploys independently to AKS. We used the strangler-fig pattern to migrate incrementally over 20 weeks with no production disruption.
Results Delivered
Project Process
Domain Analysis
2 WeeksEvent storming workshops, bounded context identification, and strangler-fig roadmap.
Infrastructure Setup
2 WeeksAKS cluster, Azure Service Bus, API Gateway, monitoring stack.
Service Extraction
12 WeeksIncrementally extracted 9 services using strangler-fig, service-by-service.
Event-Driven Integration
2 WeeksSaga patterns, outbox pattern, and compensating transactions.
Observability
1 WeekOpenTelemetry traces, structured logs, and dashboards across all services.
Load Testing & Go-Live
1 WeekAzure Load Testing, chaos engineering, and final cutover.
"Our biggest sale event used to be our biggest disaster. Now it's our biggest revenue day with zero incidents. VFL's microservices architecture saved our business."