COLLECTORS specifications and data – some of which stretches back to the dawn of trading cards back in the late 1800s. For decades, Collectors managed its operations with a technical footprint that is now seen as somewhat precarious. Servers were physically located in headquarters which, for a sector now valued at around US $ 400bn worldwide, is a setup Dan acknowledges as unsustainable.
The journey began with moving everything to AWS:“ Step one was replatforming the entire infrastructure onto AWS to get elastic scale,” DVT adds.“ Running on in-office servers is not something that most companies have done since the 90s and early 2000s, but it is a sign of how quickly businesses have scaled to keep up.
“ We had to figure out how to make sure that if the power goes out that it doesn’ t affect all of our customers worldwide.”
This cloud migration was more than a technology upgrade, but an existential shift. The result? Reliability, security and, crucially, the ability to iterate and improve quickly as new demands – from customers or collectors – surfaced. Alongside this, Collectors adopted AI-driven cloud ecosystems, particularly around automation, for its data architecture.
With millions of database records, the transition could have been overwhelming. However, by leveraging the power of database automation partner Tessell, Collectors has got“ on top of the decades of data that we have
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