ShipMonk: From a Small Startup to a Billion-Dollar Business

How Trustsoft migrated ShipMonk to AWS with microservices, Terraform, Kubernetes and CI/CD, enabling automatic scaling, zero-downtime updates and lower costs.

About the Company

ShipMonk is a US-based third-party logistics (3PL) provider founded in 2014 and headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It handles warehousing, inventory management and order fulfillment for e-commerce and direct-to-consumer brands, operating multiple fulfillment centers across the US and abroad. ShipMonk continues to scale its technology and infrastructure to support its fast-growing global customer base.

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Challenge

As one of the fastest-growing startups in logistics, ShipMonk ran 3 production servers and 4 development servers across Vultr and Digital Ocean. The setup limited how far the business could grow and made routine updates risky.

Did not allow scaling; performance could only be increased by adding an instance
Updates were complicated and required short application downtime
No separate data centers to easily switch to

Solution

Migration began with breaking the application into microservices. In AWS, Trustsoft built the entire environment in Terraform, adopted Kubernetes for orchestration, and prepared a CI/CD pipeline for continuous deployment.

Application refactored into microservices
Infrastructure built in Terraform
Kubernetes for container orchestration
CI/CD pipeline for continuous deployment

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Benefits

ShipMonk now runs across 3 separate data centers, scales automatically as demand changes, and rolls out updates in the background without interrupting service. The CI/CD pipeline supports unlimited deployment of new versions, alongside a reduction in cost.