Sam’s Club: Modernizing Retail Mission-Critical Apps with Azure
In this Microsoft Ignite session, Microsoft Events presents technical guidance from Sam’s Club’s modernization of retail apps on Azure, featuring resilience strategies and platform transformation techniques.
Sam’s Club: Modernizing Mission-Critical Retail Apps with Azure
Microsoft Ignite 2025 | Session BRK155
Speakers: Gautam Chandra, Justine Cocchi
Overview
Discover how Sam’s Club modernized its mission-critical retail applications by migrating to Azure. The session provides:
- Fault tolerance and high availability concepts
- Strategies for transforming legacy monolithic apps into cloud-native microservices
- Hands-on implementation guidance using Azure services
Key Topics & Chapters
0:00 – Fault Tolerance and High Availability Explained
- Define core concepts for resilient architecture in retail apps
7:04 – Cloud-Native Microservices Transformation
- Steps to migrate from monolithic to microservice-based systems
- Improved scalability and flexibility benefits
14:24 – Platform Modernization
- Transitioning to service-layer architectures
- Migrating microservices for optimized operations on Azure
16:00 – Resilience and Scaling in Cosmos DB
- Multi-region deployment strategies
- SDK tuning for performance
19:41 – Demo: Active-Active Multi-Region Failover
- Live simulation showcasing seamless failover without service disruption
25:11 – E-Commerce Architecture Using Azure Services
- Overview of simplified retail architecture leveraging Azure resources
32:13 – Saga Pattern for Data Consistency
- Implementing saga pattern across distributed microservices
- Ensuring reliable transaction management
33:54 – Active-Active System Architecture
- Building architectures for uninterrupted service and scalability
38:28 – Scaling Compute and Storage with Azure SQL Hyperscale
- Leveraging Azure SQL's hyperscale capabilities for demanding workloads
Technical Strategies
- Migrating and modernizing retail applications using Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Azure SQL, and Cosmos DB
- Applying resilience, high availability, and scaling patterns
- Hands-on guidance for platform modernization and cloud-native transformation
Resources
Takeaways
Attendees will learn practical migration strategies, technical implementation of resilience and performance patterns, and how to operationalize modern architectures in Azure’s cloud ecosystem.