Application Modernization and Cloud Enablement for Maxima LT
- Apr 20
- 2 min read
Updated: Apr 22
The challenge
The widespread problem with using legacy IT infrastructure is its low capability to flexibly meet changing business demands and the relatively high effort required for maintenance. Maxima LT was having a challenge with providing sufficient quality of service during customer demand peaкs in their mobile channels, when running backend infrastructure on legacy Data Center platforms.
“Our customers expect high quality of experience whenever and wherever they are. By leveraging GCP managed services and its capability to auto-scale capacity based on demand changes we have managed to improve our quality of services towards customers while keeping cost and services upkeep effort under control. It's a strong foundation for our growth ambitions and further adoption of Cloud services.” Tomas Bazys. Director of IT Maintenance Department at MAXIMA LT
The solution
Maxima LT, in collaboration with TeraSky Europe, moved from usage of traditional legacy Virtual Machines-based solutions to usage of GCP-managed cloud services, such as CloudRun, Memorystore for Redis, Cloud SQL, and Google Cloud Storage. By applying the best practice of Cloud infrastructure services implementation, they delivered a setup enabling high availability and rapid scalability.
The results
The result of this work is having today a cost-effective and reliable cloud-native solution taking advantage of GCP's capability to scale seamlessly and infinitely for continuously varying customer demand. Resources are allocated only when and where they are needed, assuring high availability of business services while keeping the consumption of resources under control.
Maxima LT, the company that manages the MAXIMA retail chain, is the largest Lithuanian capital company, as well as one of the largest taxpayers and the largest employer in the country. More than 400,000 customers visit the Maxima stores operating in Lithuania every day, where there are about 250 stores located throughout the country.
