🏗️ Architecture Overview
🖥️ Frontend — Next.js (SSR/ISR)
We use Next.js with Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR) to deliver blazing-fast, SEO-optimized pages.
- SSR ensures search engines fully index every product review and comparison page
- ISR keeps content fresh — pages regenerate automatically when new reviews or deals are published
- React-based component architecture enables rich, interactive UI (comparison tables, dynamic filters, rating widgets)
- Optimized Core Web Vitals for top search rankings
⚙️ Backend — Serverless Architecture (AWS Lambda + API Gateway)
Our backend runs 100% serverless on AWS, eliminating infrastructure overhead and scaling automatically with traffic.
- AWS Lambda handles all business logic — review processing, affiliate link tracking, user analytics events
- Amazon API Gateway provides secure, scalable REST APIs with built-in rate limiting and caching
- Event-driven architecture processes review submissions, deal alerts, and content updates asynchronously
- Zero idle costs — we only pay for what we use, making it ideal for a startup
🤖 AI/ML — Amazon Comprehend & SageMaker
We leverage AWS AI/ML services to analyze user behavior and deliver dynamic, personalized content.
- Amazon Comprehend performs sentiment analysis on product reviews, automatically extracting key phrases, pros/cons, and user sentiment scores
- Amazon SageMaker powers our recommendation engine — predicting which products and deals are most relevant to each visitor based on browsing patterns
- Dynamic Content Personalization — homepage, product rankings, and deal highlights adapt in real-time to user preferences
- Continuous model training with new review data for ever-improving accuracy
🗄️ Database — Amazon DynamoDB
DynamoDB serves as our primary data store for user analytics and real-time metrics.
- Single-digit millisecond latency for reading/writing user interaction events (page views, clicks, time-on-page)
- Auto-scaling handles traffic spikes during product launches and deal events
- Stores user behavior analytics — click patterns, search queries, conversion funnels — powering our AI/ML personalization
- Global Tables for multi-region low-latency access as we scale internationally
- Cost-efficient with on-demand capacity mode — perfect for unpredictable startup traffic