Case Study: Walmart achieves 20% higher web conversion with Akka

Walmart boosts web conversion 20% with Akka

Walmart faced limitations with its inflexible legacy e-commerce backend, which relied on expensive dedicated infrastructure and specialist teams, leading to long development cycles and an inability to handle high concurrent traffic during peak retail events. To address this, the retailer turned to the vendor Akka for a more scalable solution.

By rebuilding its web and mobile stack on Akka, Walmart migrated backend tasks to commodity virtual machines on its private cloud. This solution resulted in a 20% increase in web conversion and a 98% rise in mobile orders within four weeks. The platform also handled 400,000 page views per hour at peak, reduced page load times by 36%, and cut long-term infrastructure costs by 20-50%, demonstrating the effectiveness of the Akka platform.

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