The Challenge
Opperman & Son sells trucks and trailers nationwide; the website is the business. It needed inventory workflows for staff and as close to zero downtime as the budget allowed.
The Solution
A Sails.js CMS and customer storefront on AWS: employees track vehicle intake with photos, video, and writeups; sales managers approve listings before they go live. Images serve from S3 through CloudFront, sessions live in Redis, data in DocumentDB — with CloudWatch-driven 5-second DNS failover.
What I Built
Vehicle Intake & Approval Workflow
Staff document incoming vehicles; sales managers approve before listings publish.
5-Second Failover
CloudWatch alarm through SNS to DNS failover — an instance failure passes customers to the standby.
CDN-Backed Media
Vehicle photos and video served from S3 through CloudFront.
Outcome
- A staff-run inventory pipeline with editorial control
- Survives an instance failure without customers noticing
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