Case study · India · Gamified e-commerce
DealBuddy
A gamified deals app where users compete in rounds for products, ranked in real time.
Client: Basil Nalakath



REGION
India
STACK
Flutter · AWS ECS · Redis · Kafka
TIMELINE
3 months
Built for the peak.
100K
Concurrent requests handled at peak
~$500/mo
We built DealBuddy scale-to-zero and serverless-first from day one and brought the production cloud bill to about $500/month at peak concurrency — versus a traditional always-on EC2 setup at the same load.
ECS
High availability, deployed on AWS ECS
Real-time ranking under 1 lakh concurrent requests.
Peaks of up to 1 lakh (100,000) concurrent requests at the end of offer deals. Verified in load tests and in real production peaks.
An event-driven stack on AWS.
- LIVE UPDATES
- Firebase and WebSockets
- RANKING
- Redis sorted sets
- COMPUTE
- Microservices on AWS ECS and Lambda
- STREAMING
- Kafka for data streaming
- APPS
- Flutter apps for iOS and Android
- TEAM & TIMELINE
- 3 months to production
Inside the app.







05 · CLIENT

“Rearway made the daunting task of launching our application feel like a breeze. Their team's approachability and sincere dedication to our project were truly refreshing. The innovative solutions in mobile app development brought our ideas to life, and their easy-to-approach attitude made the entire process smooth. I'm grateful for the expertise and support Rearway provided.”
Basil Nalakath
CEO, Deal Buddy

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