Case Study: Boutir achieves scalable, zero-downtime growth with Looker

Enabling merchants to thrive globally with online shop builder powered by App Engine

Boutir is a Hong Kong-based online commerce platform that helps merchants create mobile shops in minutes, but as it expanded across Asia to serve 100,000+ merchants, it needed a highly scalable, reliable cloud foundation to handle rapid growth and unpredictable traffic spikes. Boutir chose Looker-powered Google Cloud analytics as part of its broader data strategy, alongside Google Cloud services like App Engine, to support its mission of merchant empowerment.

Looker helped Boutir turn growing data volumes into actionable insights, improving platform performance and enabling better business decisions. Combined with Google Cloud’s scalable infrastructure, Boutir was able to absorb thousands of orders per second during pandemic demand surges with zero crashes, enable zero-downtime A/B testing and hot deployments, and speed app release cycles by an estimated 10x.

Boutir

Eric Ng

Co-founder and CEO