Lift Igniter

Accelerating Real-Time Recommendations: Overcoming Data Processing Challenges

data engineering consulting

2008 - Austin,TX

E- learning providers

51-200 employees

Overview

Lift Igniter is an innovative technology company focused on enhancing user engagement through personalized recommendations. In today’s competitive digital landscape, Lift Igniter’s mission is to deliver highly relevant content and product recommendations to improve user experience, drive conversions, and build customer loyalty. To achieve this, Lift Igniter turned to Folio3 for an advanced recommendation platform capable of real-time, data-driven personalization across industries like e-commerce, media, and online learning.

The Challenge – Real-time Big Data Analysis and Processing

With increasing volumes of user data generated from clicks, scrolls, media views, and other interactions, Lift Igniter needed a solution that could:

Process vast and varied datasets in real-time to deliver personalized recommendations.

Continuously adapt to changes in user behavior, ensuring recommendations are always relevant.

Integrate data sources seamlessly and leverage machine learning for predictive analytics, despite the complexity of high-frequency data streams.

The existing system struggled to handle real-time data processing and model updates efficiently, leading to limitations in delivering timely recommendations.

The Solution – Simplified Cloud-Based Personalization and Analytics Engine

To address Lift Igniter’s need for dynamic, real-time recommendations, Folio3 developed a simplified, cloud-based personalization solution that seamlessly integrated data analytics to process and analyze user behavior. Key features included:

Cloud
Services

To support real-time scaling and data processing.

Machine Learning
Models

For personalized recommendations using a mix of collaborative and content-based approaches.

Flexible API
Integration

Simplified addition of new data sources and content streams.

Asynchronous
Processing Framework

Ensured scalability and responsiveness.

Technologies Involved In This Case

Docker

Apache Spark

Apache Iceberg

AWS RedShift

AWS EC2-Autoscaling

Amazon Glue

Amazon ECS

Amazon RDS

Amazon S3

AWS Lambda

AWS CodePipeline

Moodle

PHP

ASP.net

React Native

Results & Achievements

20% Increase in Conversion Rates

Real-time personalized recommendations resulted in a 20% boost in conversions.

30% Improvement in Engagement

Personalized content led to a 30% increase in user engagement.

50% Reduction in Response Time

The Actor Model reduced recommendation response times by half.

Enhanced Scalability

The system scaled to handle 10x more interactions without performance degradation.

By leveraging Folio3’s Actor State Model, Lift Igniter successfully built a highly scalable and efficient recommendation engine that continuously adapted to user behaviors, significantly improving engagement and conversions across various industries.