Retail & ecommerce · Databricks
Gousto: Streamlining food delivery fulfillment to delight customers
Public case study · not a Metric Oak engagement
- Infrastructure cost reduction
- 60%
- Productivity benefit for data engineering delivery
- 40%
- End-to-end ingestion time reduction
- 99.6%
What happened
The story in brief
A UK recipe-box company that puts data at the centre of its operations faced a demand surge during the pandemic. Running its data engineering on Databricks improved delivery productivity and cut infrastructure costs.
How it compares
- 60% infrastructure cost reduction, against a median reported cost reduction of 50% across 16 retail & ecommerce results.
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Frequently asked questions
What results did Gousto report?
Gousto reported 60% infrastructure cost reduction; 40% productivity benefit for data engineering delivery; 99.6% end-to-end ingestion time reduction, according to its customer story published by Databricks.
Which platform and technologies did Gousto use?
Gousto used Databricks on AWS, including Delta Lake.
How do these results compare with other retail & ecommerce programs?
60% infrastructure cost reduction, against a median reported cost reduction of 50% across 16 retail & ecommerce results.
Source
Customer story published by Databricks: Streamlining food delivery fulfillment to delight customers (opens databricks.com in a new tab) on databricks.com. Figures as published, retrieved 27 October 2026. The summary above is Metric Oak's own. This is not a Metric Oak engagement.
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