Fast-track API for internationalising a price comparison platform
solute GmbH (billiger.de) needed a new merchant API for international expansion - delivered for speed while internal teams stayed focused on running the existing platform.
solute GmbH is among the first generation of digital pioneers and runs billiger.de, one of the leading price comparison platforms in German-speaking markets. In April 2018 the product search engine saw over 300,000 visitors per day, with 70 million offers across one million products in 22,500 shops.
The challenge
First-generation digital businesses know how to move on fast-changing markets - but internal IT is often fully consumed running existing infrastructure and software. During internationalisation, solute reviewed its systems and decided to build a new API to onboard international merchants.
Time-to-market was critical. solute chose an external partner to develop and operate this new core component so internal capacity could stay on the live platform.
Client: solute GmbH
Technologies used (among others)
- Computational linguistics and NLP
- Elasticsearch (data warehouse), Grafana (dashboards), Kibana (analytics)
- Go, Node.js, Python
- Docker
- REST API
- TensorFlow (machine learning)