Building a Scalable E-commerce Infrastructure: Inside Nevuto’s Architecture

When you’re building an ecommerce platform that hundreds of merchants rely on daily, architecture matters more than anything else. At Nevuto, scalability and reliability sit at the core of our design.

🧩 Microservice-based structure

Nevuto’s system is divided into multiple micro-apps:

• Core API – the backbone that handles business logic, authentication, and communication between services.

• Admin App – built for store owners to manage products, orders, and customers.

• Checkout App – optimized for speed and conversion, ensuring frictionless transactions.

• Accounts App – dedicated to merchant onboarding, billing, and user settings.

• Storefront Layer – dynamic subdomain system (like merchant.nevu.to) that isolates each store while sharing a common backend.

This modular approach makes it easier to deploy updates without downtime — each service can scale independently.

☁️ Powered by AWS

Nevuto’s infrastructure runs entirely on Amazon Web Services, leveraging:

• EC2 for compute and database hosting
• RDS for managed MySQL
• S3 for static assets and backups
• CloudFront for global CDN and SSL termination
• SQS for asynchronous event queues
• SES for transactional email delivery
• VPC for secure network isolation

Incoming requests first hit Route 53, which routes traffic through a Load Balancer before reaching the correct service.
This ensures balanced performance, redundancy, and high availability.

🔁 CI/CD with GitLab

Nevuto’s entire development lifecycle is automated via GitLab CI/CD.
Every push triggers:

1. Build & test stages
2. Dockerized deployments
3. Manual approval for production releases

We maintain two environments — Dev and Prod — for clarity and safety.

Monitoring is handled via CloudWatch, providing real-time insights into application health.

🔒 Security & Isolation

Each merchant’s store operates within isolated namespaces and database schemas. This ensures complete data separation while maintaining centralized management. Traffic to the system is only allowed through the Load Balancer, minimizing attack surfaces.

🚀 The philosophy behind it

Nevuto’s architecture wasn’t built overnight. It evolved through constant iteration — optimizing for simplicity, speed, and developer experience. Our goal is to make ecommerce infrastructure as effortless and reliable as modern cloud hosting.

💡 Want to see how this architecture powers real stores?
Check out Nevuto — the all-in-one platform for building and scaling online businesses.