Concrete Solutions is a Brazilian IT company providing middleware-related products, solutions, technology, and consulting. In the decade since it was founded by a group of young entrepreneurs, according to Concrete Solutions, it has accrued approximately 800 thousand hours of development, has expanded to include over 100 associates, and has established clients in more than fifteen countries.
In 2009, the ecommerce site Casa & Video asked Concrete Solutions to help it optimize its infrastructure. Casa & Video is one of Brazil’s largest ecommerce retailers for electronics and home-related products. As such, the purpose of the infrastructure overhaul was to improve performance in multiple areas of the retailer’s platform—from completing purchase transactions, to handling a vast inventory, to communicating with suppliers around the world. In addition, the new infrastructure has to adapt to annual traffic fluctuations.