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Zepto has pioneered a quick commerce model that emphasizes delivering products such as groceries and essentials within 10 minutes. To achieve this, Zepto operates over 1,200 dark stores and has developed a complex logistics network that ensures users' needs are met swiftly. The underlying data platform plays a pivotal role in enabling such speed—serving product recommendations, inventory updates, and operational insights on the fly.

The Legacy Architecture: Foundations and Limitations

Initially, Zepto's data infrastructure centered around traditional data warehousing on Amazon Redshift. The setup included multiple data sources:

• Event Data: Coming in unstructured formats like JSON.

• Relational Databases: Primarily PostgreSQL for transactional processing.