How NOT to build a multi-million dollar eCommerce system
By Cory Watson (gphat) from Nashville.pm
Date: Monday, 27 June 2011 14:55
Duration: 50 minutes
Target audience: Intermediate
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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:- Ricardo Signes (rjbs)
- Michael Peters (mpeters)
- Mike Weisenborn
- William McKee (knowmad)
- Brad Lhotsky
- Dave Rolsky (autarch)
- Kevin Falcone (jibsheet)
- Todd Olson
- Todd Rinaldo (toddr)
- Jason Crome (CromeDome)
- Stevan Little (stevan)
- Kiran Kumar (mkirank)
- John Lightsey
- Krishna Sethuraman (shamu)
- Kenneth Power
- William Fishburne (Brett)
- Jess Robinson (castaway)
- Adam Prime (jsut)
- JT Smith
- John Anderson (genehack)
- Shawn Moore (Sartak)
- Michael Aquilina (aquilina)
- Daniel Sterling (Dan)
- Chris Fedde (cfedde)
- Jonathan Swartz
- Jay Shirley (jshirley)
- Uwe Voelker (Perl-Uwe.com)
- Matt Reinhart
- jerry gay (particle)
- Stephen Scaffidi (hercynium)
- Christoph Otto (cotto)
- Dave Doyle (meraxes)
- Jay Hannah (jhannah)
- Sterling Hanenkamp (zostay)
- Mohammed Chaudhry (Mo)
- Joe Kline (gizmo)
- Mike Greb (mikegrb)
- Kenneth Graves (kag)
- Arthur Schmidt (fREW)
- Nick Patch (patch)
- Brendan Byrd
- Mark Jubenville (ioncache)
- Chas. Owens (cowens)
- Justin Hunter (arcanez)
- Greg Estep
- Jon Gentle (atrodo)
- Charles Phillips (Chuck)
- Andy Gorman (agorman)
- Kevin Shaum
- Kevin Smith
- Tommy Stanton (tstanton)
- Stan Schwertly (stan_theman)
- bryan abfalter
- Jake Gelbman
- Andrew Nelson
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- Brian Sauls (bbqsauls)
- Rick Bolen
- John Ellyson
- Mark A. Stratman (mstratman)
- Yanick Champoux
- Tim Elkins
- Leanan
- Steven Novakovich
- Kirby Krueger
- Matthew Horsfall (alh)
- gordon gvanamburg
- Jan Vogel
- Matt Phillips (mattp)
- Andrew Grangaard (spazm)
- Mike Doherty
- David Storrs (dstorrs)
- Link McGaughey
- Steve Smale
- Tommy Petty
