Lift Igniter
Accelerating Real-Time Recommendations: Overcoming Data Processing Challenges
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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-Native Scalability
Architected on a cloud platform to handle increased traffic while maintaining performance.
Data-Driven Insights
Advanced analytics capabilities processed user interactions (clicks, scrolls, and media views) to identify patterns, enabling precise predictions of user preferences.
Personalized Scoring Models
Combined collaborative and content-based filtering, enhanced by analytics-driven machine learning models, for tailored recommendations.
Real-Time Adaptability
API-based integration allowed continuous updates to recommendation models based on real-time user activity.
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.