WorkProduct Development2020 — 2023

A live two-sided B2B marketplace, rebuilt for speed where it counts — the paths buyers actually hit.

Delivered by our founding team at Digiance LLC (US)

−45%

Database load

−35%

Peak API latency

Live

Status

The challenge

A marketplace that slows down as catalogues grow isn't inconvenient — it's abandoned. Where do you spend engineering effort so discovery stays fast under real load?

What we built

Profiling showed the latency concentrated in a handful of hot query paths, not spread evenly — so the work was finding them: query restructuring and indexing over scaling hardware, caching on the read paths that dominate discovery traffic, and a widened brand-to-retailer connection model so more matches were possible in the first place. React/TypeScript frontends with role-based dashboards and real-time notifications completed the product.

Key engineering

The decisions that made it work

Profile first, then fix

The permanent fix at zero recurring cost, where scaling up would have been a monthly bill hiding the same problem.

Caching where it earns its keep

Read paths only — caching writes would have bought little and added the class of bug that costs marketplace trust.

The results

What actually changed

  • 1

    Database load down 45% from indexing and query restructuring — no bigger instance required

  • 2

    Peak API latency down 35% on the endpoints buyers hit most

  • 3

    The one project in this list anyone can open and verify unaided — it is live

What it doesn't do

This predates our AI work; it is here as full-stack evidence. The product has continued to evolve since — the live site reflects work beyond ours.

Stack

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Django
  • MySQL
  • Redis
  • Jenkins
  • Docker
  • GCP

Tell us the pain point. We'll tell you honestly what AI can do about it.

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