Open Commerce
summary
About You presents an open developer platform that enables external apps to sell its product catalogue via a Merchant API implemented in Python (bottle.py). The system uses MySQL for transactions, MongoDB for product master data, RabbitMQ for millisecond product-update delivery, and ElasticSearch as a read cache; it also exposes an Image API, BI/tracking, and open SDKs, has ~450 developers and 30+ apps, and operates an 8% commission model with most apps generating revenue.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00About You intro
- 3:18Merchant APIs & databases
- 8:50Business intelligence API
- 10:59Shop API & Elasticsearch
- 11:42Developer Center goals
- 13:49Shop API features
- 15:53Product search & filters
- 17:14Cart & payouts
- 17:57Product recs & data science
- 19:21Shop API queries & SDK
- 20:43Product objects & API structure
- 21:47Product images & Image API
- 23:57Snapper app use cases
- 25:00Ecosystem challenges
- 27:26Performance & caching
- 28:09Data consistency & normalization
- 29:11Summary & outlook
- 29:44Q&A
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