Safeway Albertsons Customer Loyalty DataStax Enterprise Architecture Review

Safeway, a subsidiary of Albertons Companies, Inc. (NYSE: ACI), is an American supermarket chain that provides grocery items, food and general merchandise and features a variety of specialty departments, such as bakery, delicatessen, floral and pharmacy, as well as Starbucks coffee shops and fuel centers.

Safeway relies upon DataStax Enterprise deployed on Azure for their online customer web and mobile application experience known as “LOYALTY”, which services over 6 Million users and 1 Billion coupon clips per year across 904 locations in 17 states.

DataStax brought RhinoSource into Safeway to review DataStax Enterprise Cassandra and Solr Search clusters running on Azure to ensure that best practices were being followed and performance was optimized.

RhinoSource reviewed Safeway’s DataStax cluster architecture and configurations, as well as reviewed Safeway’s data models and Solr indexes, and made architectural and configuration recommendations to improve cluster performance and reliability.

RhinoSource also helped plan major upgrades for DataStax software, helped with multi-region bidirectional advanced replication scenarios and recommended improvements for cluster monitoring and alerting.