Tesco Central Europe – Official mobile application

Digital shopping across four countries

The Tesco Central Europe mobile app project covered Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Poland. The solution supported a digital shopping journey on phones and tablets. The work extended beyond the user interface to the infrastructure supporting the application.

Why does the supporting system matter?

An application used in several countries needs to handle user requests as well as analytics processing. The platform described here relies on an environment serving hundreds of thousands of requests per day. Interface delivery, data processing and infrastructure capacity are therefore connected tasks.

Development, operations and ongoing improvement

The infrastructure uses a failover cluster, automated backups and multiple security controls. Clustering provides redundancy between servers, while backups support data recovery: the two functions complement each other. The engagement included operations and ongoing development as well as the initial application build.