Supporting the Explosive Growth at Bulk!

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In 2018 the BULK POWDERS website underwent a major migration on to the latest version of the Magento ecommerce platform. The migration from Magento 1 to Magento 2 saw the website go through a vast transition of data and design. The migration path consisted of 4 processes: Data Migration, Extensions, Themes, Customisations. For the data migration, the deployment of an Extraction, Transformation, Loading (ETL) process was performed to migrate settings of the original website, and all data and tables.

Website Migration

What data to migrate was decided beforehand. Questions asked were: should we bring all of the data or just parts of the data? If so which parts? Based on creation date or product, customer or order? Should we clean the data at source or at destination? It was a brilliant opportunity to spring clean the client’s databases, and ensure that redundancy was reduced and relevance increased before transferring to the brand new site. With the help of The Pixel, BULK POWDERS successfully completed the transfer of tens of millions of records migrated from Magento 1 to Magento 2. All existing Magento 1 themes (design) were refactored and rewritten from scratch to accommodate the Magento 2 platform. This also ensured that all themes were updated and built to the latest best practice, with an increase in speed performance, greater adherence to Google’s requirements and an overall increase in customer usability. All ERP integrations were also re-evaluated and regenerated for Magento 2 using The Pixel’s own ERP connector.

Deployment to Cloud

This year the BULK POWDERS website underwent a full migration to the Magento Commerce Cloud environment. Magento Cloud, launched in 2016, is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environment designed specifically for Magento 2 and runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). It’s been built and designed to power innovative ecommerce websites.

One of the main advantages of Magento Cloud is its fully customisable, secure and scalable storefronts. BULK POWDERS now has the ability to offer highly differentiated customer experiences, simplified integration with their existing systems and the ability to respond rapidly to changing technology.

With the platform running on AWS, it ensures that the website has the agility to respond to a rapidly changing environment, continuously deploy innovations, and easily scale to meet unexpected demand. For example, the BULK POWDERS M2 cloud infrastructure has allowed the company to cater for significant peaks and bursts in traffic, keeping performance constant throughout, providing a fast experience regardless of visitor volume.

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How we did it...

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Magento Cloud capabilities and flexibility has allowed BULK POWDERS to greatly reduce the implementation costs, compared to a multitenant SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) solutions (a single instance of software running on a server with multiple users). This is because much of the tailoring required with a SaaS Magento set-up is no longer required with the new PaaS cloud system.

The benefits of BULK POWDERS using the Cloud are numerous: scalability, high resilience, PCI compliance, global availability, automated patching. But in addition to this, using Magento’s already successful and established architecture (and global system of partners and developers) makes it a tried and tested, limited-risk venture.

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