Company
Date Published
Author
Sam Bhagwat
Word count
655
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

Salling Group, Denmark's largest retailer, faced challenges in its monolithic architecture, including downtime, slow speed to market, and duplicate implementations. To address these issues, they adopted a composable tech stack with headless e-commerce, leveraging Netlify as their platform for serverless functions and Algolia for search engine application. This transformation has led to improved frontend development hours, boosted time-to-market speed, encouraged an open source approach among engineers, and enabled faster incremental builds and experimentation on less-trafficked sites. The company's digital team now benefits from a more flexible architecture that allows them to build tech stacks with applications performing specific functions, resulting in enhanced developer productivity and customer satisfaction.