A leading global digital auction software platform came to Armakuni for live auction platform modernization at global scale: microservices, multi-tenant deployment automation, event-driven integration, centralized identity.
The challenge
A platform modernization engagement that grew into ongoing engineering ownership. Armakuni took complete ownership of Auction Mobility's engineering and now runs the architecture that powers the entire white-label platform.
Scale: 400+ white-labeled deployments serving auction houses globally. Thousands of bids per minute during live auctions. 99.9% uptime maintained at peak load.
What we built
Armakuni delivered live auction platform modernization at global scale: microservices, multi-tenant deployment automation, event-driven integration, centralized identity. The engagement ran as multiple fixed-scope SOWs covering platform decomposition, deployment automation, message bus migration, identity consolidation, and Oracle to Amazon RDS migration.
The outcomes
5 measurable outcomes shipped across the engagement. The ones that moved the business the most:
99.9% uptime held across live auctions at thousands of bids per minute. Auction houses never lose revenue to platform issues during their highest-stakes events, when the bidding volume is at its peak.
30% faster auction house onboarding. New customer activation shifts from a multi-week engineering project to a config-driven exercise that scales with sales rather than constraining it.
100+ deployments shipped every week through automated pipelines. Version-controlled pipelines replace the manual coordination that used to cap release frequency at a handful per month.
Zero security breaches since centralized identity and multi-tenant isolation went live. The result is validated by the auction house compliance reviews that gate every new customer contract.
Zero downtime during cutover while live auctions kept running. The platform was migrated service-by-service with no impact on customers and no scheduled outage windows.
Built on AWS
The production environment runs on 13 first-party AWS services. Delivered under our AWS Migration and Modernization, DevOps competencies.
What's next
Expanding microservices coverage and building agentic AI capabilities into the platform for intelligent bidder engagement, automated catalog enrichment, and personalized auction recommendations.