Case Study: Tape à l’œil protects digital performance during retail peaks with Gatling

How Tape à l’œil protects digital performance during retail peaks

Tape à l’œil (TAO), a French retailer specializing in children's fashion, faced significant challenges in maintaining its e-commerce platform's performance during major sales events. Traffic surges had previously caused outages, and complex API interactions, particularly within its mobile app, were causing severe memory bottlenecks. They turned to Gatling Enterprise to move from intuition to simulation-based validation, needing to ensure their systems could handle peak loads.

By implementing Gatling Enterprise, TAO built sophisticated simulations that mimicked real customer journeys on both web and mobile, including complex cart interactions and backend service calls. This allowed them to validate architectural improvements, optimize API endpoints, and proactively trigger auto-scaling before traffic surges. Gatling provided measurable results, including reduced memory usage, the detection of critical pricing engine bugs before campaigns, and the logging of 15-20 performance-related tickets annually. The solution gave the team confidence in their platform's resilience.

Tape à l’œil

Nordine El Mojahid

Head of Digital IT