Using AWS EventBridge + Lambda to handle auction timeline.

In the world of car auctions, timing is everything. Ensuring that each auction ends precisely when it’s supposed to is crucial to maintaining efficiency and customer satisfaction. However, as the scale of our operations grew, we encountered a significant challenge with our traditional cron-based system. This prompted us to explore more scalable solutions, eventually leading us to adopt AWS EventBridge Scheduler. In this blog post, we’ll delve into how this transition revolutionised our auction timeline management. The Cron-Based Conundrum For years, we relied on cron jobs to manage the timelines of our car auctions. While it served us well initially, we soon found it struggling to cope with the increasing number of auctions we were handling. The crux of the problem lay in the synchronisation of over a thousand auctions that were supposed to end simultaneously. <a href="https://medium.com/cars24/using-aws-eventbridge-lambda-to-handle-auction-timeline-f99c1b3636a">Read More</a>