Auto-approval and a design-system migration for Demo Labs

Problem

Solution Engineers waited 24 to 48 hours for lab events to be approved by hand, and the Demo Labs UI used legacy components.

Approach

• Rule-based auto-approval for eligible lab events, written in Node.js.
• Migrated 12 pages (about 35 files) to Odyssey with custom theming, design tokens and Shadow DOM support.
• Moved logo lookup from the browser to a Lambda and API Gateway proxy cached on CloudFront, taking the API key out of the client.

Result

Manual approval work fell by about 25% and lab creation rose by about 15% over 4 months. Logo latency fell by about 20%, and the proxy has served 25,000+ requests.