How NOT to build a multi-million dollar eCommerce system
By Cory Watson (gphat)
Date: Monday, 27 June 2011 14:55
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
Language:
Tags: and_get_a_hat
I architected and implemented a multi-million dollar eCommerce system using the cream of the Perl crop. We joined the community, contributed to projects and have succeeded in deploying a stable, high performance site. Now let me tell you all the shit I did wrong. Deadlocks, forgotten features, data loss, lack of reporting, terrible schemas and general nincompoopery will assist you as we take a whirlwind tour of how NOT to build the future of your company. Revel in my trials and tribulations as I lament poor database structure, bad team management and terrible development practices. Maybe you'll learn from my failures. I've taken the time to point out some lessons learned while I was at it. It wasn't all bad and it's my hope that you will benefit from my mistakes.
Attended by:- William Fishburne (Brett)
- JT Smith
- Kevin Smith
- Leanan
- Dave Rolsky (autarch)
- Shawn Moore (sartak)
- Mark Jubenville (ioncache)
- Arthur Schmidt (fREW)
- Stephen Scaffidi (hercynium)
- Kirby Krueger
- Brad Lhotsky
- Kenneth Graves (kag)
- Todd Olson
- Joe Kline (gizmo)
- gordon gvanamburg
- Steven Novakovich
- Matthew Horsfall (alh)
- Jason Crome (CromeDome)
- Matt Phillips (mattp)
- Rick Bolen
- Andy Gorman (agorman)
- Stevan Little (stevan)
- Nova Patch (patch)
- Ricardo Signes (rjbs)
- Krishna Sethuraman (shamu)
- Dave Doyle (meraxes)
- Michael Peters (mpeters)
- Jonathan Swartz
- jerry gay (particle)
- Andrew Grangaard (spazm)
- Brian Sauls (bbqsauls)
- Yanick Champoux (Yanick)
- Adam Prime (jsut)
- John Lightsey (J.D.)
- Mike Greb (mikegrb)
- Kiran Kumar (mkirank)
- John Ellyson
- William McKee (knowmad)
- Stan Schwertly (stan_theman)
- Kevin Shaum
- John Anderson (genehack)
- Link McGaughey
- Tommy Petty
- Jon Gentle (atrodo)
- Kenneth Power
- Charles Phillips
- David Neimeyer
- Steve Smale
- Jay Shirley (jshirley)
- David Storrs (dstorrs)
- Jacob Gelbman
- Daniel Sterling (HighBit)
- Mark A. Stratman (mstratman)
- Matt Reinhart
- Uwe Voelker (Perl-Uwe)
- Chris Fedde (cfedde)
- Kevin Falcone (jibsheet)
- Jess Robinson (castaway)
- Mike Weisenborn
- Justin Hunter (arcanez)
- Christoph Otto (cotto)
- Sterling Hanenkamp (zostay)
- Michael Aquilina (aquilina)
- Mike Doherty
- Brendan Byrd (SineSwiper)
- Mohammed Chaudhry (Mo)
- bryan abfalter
- Todd Rinaldo (toddr)
- Thomas Stanton (tstanton)
- Jan Vogel
- Andrew Nelson
- Jay Hannah (jhannah)
- Greg Estep
- Chas. Owens (cowens)
- Tim Elkins
