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Vercel x KIKO Milano, killing the Black Friday war room

3 weeks of Black Friday infrastructure prep eliminated

Dreading peak traffic to forgetting infrastructure entirely

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Why it works

The case study leads with time and effort going down, specifically three weeks of prep work wiped out and build times cut by 75%, which makes Efficiency the clear primary type. The resilience angle is real and well-supported: the before-state included an explicit fear that everything could break during peak traffic. The piece earns its quotes because they describe a concrete emotional shift rather than generic praise.

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Anchoring the headline metric in eliminated prep weeks rather than a speed stat makes the business cost of the old process visceral and easy for a non-technical buyer to grasp.

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  • Vendor Vercel
  • Customer KIKO Milano
  • Industry Ecommerce / Retail
  • Trigger Manual AWS scaling created costly failure risk ahead of Black Friday
  • Format Written narrative
  • Structure Challenge-Solution-Results
  • Medium Web page