Dapr+Diagrid Conductor: Powering the teams that build and run the Sharper Image Commerce Cloud

Camelot SI LLC (Sharper Image Licensee of SharperImage.com) is an American online retailer that specializes in home electronics, gifts, and other lifestyle products. With a strong customer focus, the retail website is aimed to be the ultimate shopping experience offering product videoclips, customer ratings, easy order tracking and access to real-time, toll-free customer support.

A Seamless Shopping Experience, Powered by Dapr

The Sharper Image Commerce Cloud is composed of over 70+ microservices running in production on Kubernetes, processing in excess of 80,000+ orders per day at peak periods such as Black Friday. The business critical role of this system means it must be stable under pressure, respond to changes with agility, and the development team can quickly identify and solve problems.

Simplified Microservices Development

Camelot SI has been a user of the Dapr project for many years and it has become a core component in their business solutions. The Sharper Image Commerce Cloud depends on Dapr for pub/sub asynchronous communication, synchronous service invocation, state management, and task scheduling. Dapr has significantly simplified microservices development by abstracting the complexities associated with setting up services compared to the previous in-house microservices framework.

Reduced Infrastructure Costs, Enhanced Operational Efficiency

By transitioning to Dapr, Camelot SI eliminated the overhead associated with their custom microservices framework, leading to substantial cloud infrastructure cost savings. Dapr's lightweight and efficient design has proven to be instrumental in optimizing resource utilization, thereby reinforcing its value in their technology stack. Switching to Dapr delivered over 99% reduction in CPU usage from 3.5 to 0.03 cores.