Era of We Builds Community-Driven Commerce in the Coffee Supply Chain Using Opsio and AWS

Over a series of design and development meetings, teams from Era of We, Opsio, and AWS envisioned an overall architecture with three main components: front end, ecommerce, and backend.

Different teams were tasked with building each component. Opsio took responsibility for overall project management and for creating the common management and systems that brought everything together within a reasonable timeframe and with the ability to grow. “Era of We has a unique vision and intense business focus, and we offered the experience and resources to realize those with confidence,” says Premjeet Sahu, senior technical architect at Opsio.

Opsio partitioned the system’s three main components into a core for business logic, validation, APIs, and backend service provision. A front end of multiple websites exposes appropriate services to each class of user. And there’s ecommerce support for handling purchases, payments, and logistics—it’s a full-featured shopping platform for food and drink.

External teams were tasked with ecommerce and front-end development, while Opsio created the management systems and service provisioning that brought everything together securely, scalably, and swiftly.

Only the combination of cloud-based services and modern DevSecOps principles could bring a system with global scope and complexity within the grasp of a startup. This made it possible to deliver viable development within budget and on time. It also allowed the teams to create something that’s manageable day-to-day and supports future innovation.

The project called for collaborative development among different teams and team members: enterprise and software architects, QA experts, analysis and security specialists, suppliers, and partners. “The challenges in collaborative development between global teams are significant, but so is reinventing a global supply chain as a community,” said Erik Hedlund of Era of We. “The scope of one matched the scope of the other, so we were comfortable that Opsio had the breadth to manage both.”

The full implementation relies on many other AWS services. All of these services work together to automate provisioning and security system components, providing continuous data for service analytics and business model planning, assurance of business continuity at scale, and the adherence to best practices for effective management. “The decision to build the company around such a complex and multifaceted project was bold, but in Opsio and AWS we found partners that not only shared our vision but committed fully to working with us to make it happen,” says Erik Hedlund. “We are very happy with our experience so far, and excited about inventing more of the future together.”

Services Used

• AWS Lambda
• Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
• Amazon ElastiCache - ElastiCache for Redis

Benefits

• System provides continuous data for service analytics and business model planning
• Whole system can be dynamically configured without code changes
• Simple resource allocation when demand or new feature require
• Continuous, fast and reliable applications and system updates

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