ABOUT YOU CLOUD: The in-house e‑commerce infrastructure as an API solution

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ABOUT YOU presents Backbone, an API-first e-commerce platform that exposes product catalog, orders/stock and warehousing as scalable APIs. Backbone integrates with ERPs/LVS and marketplaces (WM, SAP, FTP, Amazon/eBay), implements automatic stock failover, provides SDKs for Ruby/JS/PHP, supports multi-store and marketplace dropshipping, and offers real-time availability plus on-the-fly image resizing with usage-based pricing.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 3:11E-commerce challenges
3. 7:06Product and architecture
4. 10:39Technical details
5. 25:15API benefits
6. 27:07Q&A

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