Chilango Rails Ecommerce Lightning talk

eCommerce platformEdwin Cruz

Monday, January 26, 15

What we wanted

• Super fast and scalable ecommerce platform

• Avoid same mistakes

• Not to fix the same performance issues later or as less as possible

• Performant from the beginning

• Catalog and PDP separated from checkout


What we wanted

• Single page application

• API Based backend

• Fulltext search

• Taxons filtering, Facets

• Avoid dealing with CORS


What we wanted

• Take advantage as much as possible of CDNs

• Fast and independent deployments

• SEO Friendly

• Multi Store

• Highly Redundant!


What we wanted

• Replaceable backend

• Nearly real time inventory levels

• Few caching

• Cheap hosting


What we chose

• Spree for backend

• AngularJS for frontend

• Solr for fulltext search and faceting

• PostgreSQL

• Sidekiq with unique jobs


What we chose

• Redis for session storage

• Nginx for assets

• HaProxy for balancing(with spdy)

• Memcached for caching

• Single Repo


What we chose

• CoreOS

• Fleet, Systemd and Etcd

• Docker Containers

• GoLang (Vulcand)

• Ansible

• Fastly


Architecture

• /catalog/products <= GoLang app reads from Solr

• /app <= Spree Engine indexes to Solr

• /admin <= Angular App

• / <= Angular App


Architecture

Router

/catalog

/app

/

Solr S

Postgres

Redis

Sidekiq

Solr M

AngularApp


DebianVulcan

Core OSDocker

Architecture

router2

catalog1

catalog2

catalogN

Solr S

Solr S

router1


DebianVulcan Debian

Architecture

router2

Web1

Web2

App1

App2

router1

AppN


Show me the numbers!

With 10k products


Some issues

• Browsers cache html pages with our angular app

• SEO

• A lot of PR’s

• Deploy multiple apps from same repo

• Etcd cluster getting out of sync


Thanks!

Questions?


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