Lessons Learnt Building India's E-Commerce Supply Chain in Ruby
Yogi Kulkarni • January 03, 2014 • Earth

By Yogi Kulkarni

In 2012 Flipkart's supply chain system was re-built as a service oriented architecture with Ruby at its core.

This talk will cover our experiences designing, building and scaling a mission-critical Ruby-based system where data integrity and performance is vital.

Dealing with cross-service transaction integrity
JRuby - the good, bad & ugly
Coordinating gem upgrades across multiple services
Performance tuning to get predictable response times - taming queries, external calls, GC, locks
Monitoring & profiling production systems
Ruby app servers: Trinidad vs Passenger vs Unicorn
Challenges in ramping up teams on Ruby
etc

Garden City Ruby 2014