code.talks commerce 2018
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Event Teaser | 01m | |
The Dev Conference for the eCommerce Scene
12th & 13th April 2018
Berlin - CineStar Kino in der KulturBrauerei | ||
| Alexa, Let's Go Shopping! | Ralf Eggert | 47m |
A working Alexa shopping skill and a PHP voice-app framework are demonstrated, showing step-by-step filtering that reduces 16,141 shoes to 7 matches and… | ||
| Panel Discussion - Voice, Bots, IoT: How to Bet on the Right Horse and Why? | Antonia Ermacora, Alexander Graf, Mario Janschitz, Malte Kosub, Boris Lokschin | 44m |
Panelists debate how voice assistants, chatbots, and IoT can be applied in commerce, comparing technologies like voice platforms and conversational agents and… | ||
| How Do I Digitalize and Automate Myself in an Analog Environment? | Markus Schneider | 16m |
A small ecommerce team built an in-house ERP on Odoo and focused on improving data quality instead of rewriting APIs. They process work through asynchronous… | ||
| Cross functional teams are great - but what about the business? | Jesper Richter-Reichhelm | 52m |
Outfittery reorganizes around customer lifecycle teams (onboarding, engagement) and uses hypothesis-driven A/B tests to chase conversion; one experiment shows… | ||
| Configuration vs. Implementation | Daniel Seif | 39m |
A custom service called Quentin service takes normalized shop data, applies a templating engine to generate merchant-specific flat files, and sends them via… | ||
| Agile Transformation Needs Unicorns | Steffen Heilmann | 37m |
MYTOYS GROUP describes scaling IT from about 90 to 750 people while serving €500M revenue and 6M customers using concrete agile practices: a monthly rolling… | ||
| Your e-commerce bot | Fabrizio Ciacchi | 33m |
Claims that conversational front ends replace clumsy mobile UI and must answer instantly, aiming for 100 milliseconds first response. Cites trends: mobile… | ||
| ABOUT YOU CLOUD: The in-house e‑commerce infrastructure as an API solution | Sebastian Betz | 34m |
ABOUT YOU presents Backbone, an API-first e-commerce platform that exposes product catalog, orders/stock and warehousing as scalable APIs. Backbone integrates… | ||
| Reception | Boris Lokschin | 12m |
600 people attend with 70 talks across two days and the opening claim is blunt: innovate or die. Top-five market-cap companies turn over in about 15 years and… | ||
| IT Landscape - control vs. scaling | Angel Dimitrov | 36m |
Rapidly scaling orgs double yearly or even triple in under two years, forcing a tech stack from a few clusters to over 100 apps with organic data flows and… | ||
| Site performance at Mister Spex - Lessions learned | Sascha Kohlmann, Matthias Klebe | 39m |
Mister Spex isolates customer‑centric metrics (Speed Index, time to first interactive), runs synthetic Chrome-based tests via SpeedCurve every four hours… | ||
| Reactive Applications with rxjava / Spring Reactor | Matthieu Reisz, Volker Sommerfeld | 30m |
Overview of building reactive Java applications using RxJava and Spring Reactor to handle asynchronous, event-driven workloads. Covers how these libraries… | ||
| The Microservices-Ready Company | Sören Fandrich | 55m |
Explains how to build an organization capable of developing and operating microservices, covering team structure, tooling, and processes needed to adopt… | ||
| Open Sourcing Open Source at Magento | Ben Marks | 16m |
Magento launches around 2007 to make core behavior flexible and upgradeable, but early contribution processes are high friction: contributions require a faxed… | ||
| E-Commerce vs. Architecture! | Johann-Peter Hartmann | 01h 05m |
Argues that architecture should minimize implementation overhead (“exzellente complexity”) and foster shared mental models rather than following fashion. Gives… | ||
| Transforming enterprise commerce software from on premise to the cloud | Ulf Bonfert | 41m |
SAP Hybris moves an on‑prem monolith into the cloud by containerizing with Docker and standardizing on Kubernetes, adding a CI builder that layers customer… | ||
| Panel Discussion - How Companies Build Digital Capabilities | Kelly Goetsch, Boris Lokschin, Daniel Nill | 44m |
A panel with Kelly Goetsch (commercetools), Boris Lokschin (Spryker Systems), and Daniel Nill (Turbine Kreuzberg) discusses how companies develop digital… | ||
| Customer-Focused Replatforming of an Existing Shop Monolith | Thomas Kühn, Matthias Blauth | 43m |
A presentation about replatforming an existing monolithic e-commerce shop to improve customer focus. It describes moving from a monolith to a new platform… | ||
| Reactive Price Comparison: Better Prices Become an Obligation | Krister Saleck | 34m |
This talk explains how idealo uses reactive programming to improve price comparison: it describes moving to reactive systems (Reactive Streams / reactive… | ||
| 30,000 Live Releases | Diana Kruse | 46m |
Diana Kruse describes managing a continuous delivery environment at OTTO where they perform around 30,000 live releases. She explains the quality assurance… | ||
| Full-Text Search Internals with Elasticsearch | Philipp Krenn | 46m |
Live demo uses Elasticsearch + Apache Lucene with a Kibana console and a Docker compose demo to index three example documents, show tokenization, lowercasing… | ||
| Data Warehousing with Python | Martin Loetzsch | 35m |
Describes a concrete Python-based data warehouse built from open-source pieces: PostgreSQL as primary store, Python pipelines packaged with pip, and a… | ||
| Analyzing the business value of site speed improvements | Philipp Werner | 25m |
Project A measures session-level load time via the navigation timing API (stored in Google Analytics 360 and queried from BigQuery), uses DOMContentLoaded −… | ||
| How to start personal search | Torben Greulich, Tobias Kässmann | 38m |
Introduces how to build a personal search system for e-commerce using developer-focused techniques. Covers practical steps and technologies for implementing… | ||
| Data Science and Neural Networks - Big Love or just a Love Affair? | Ruth Janning | 27m |
Guidance on when neural networks win versus simpler models: neural nets approximate complex functions but need large, well‑labelled and representative… | ||
| The 5 Challenges to Images Delivery on the Web Today | Samy Makki | 44m |
Five concrete problems: generating and managing hundreds of renditions (example math ends at 108 variants for three sizes four formats three densities three… | ||
| Food is personal! Design and impact of personalized recommendations in e-grocery | Franziska Krobisch | 37m |
Project builds a personalized webshop for 4,000+ items using a heterogeneous network that links user and item similarities from transaction history, computes a… | ||
| Relevance Tuning Is Not Magic — It's Machine Learning! | P. Kaufmann | 28m |
Patricia Kaufmann explains how relevance tuning for search is not magic but uses machine learning techniques. She discusses practical approaches to improving… | ||
| 3 Locations, 2 Continents, 1 Mission - Project “dodenhof.de” | Manuel Ludvigsen-Diekmann | 48m |
Manuel Ludvigsen-Diekmann describes the dodenhof.de project connecting three locations across two continents to operate a single e-commerce platform. He… | ||
| ChatBots Were Yesterday, Conversational Commerce Is Today | Clemens Weins | 55m |
Argues that voice commerce succeeds when systems use a strict pipeline (ASR → NLU → NLG → TTS) and narrow, well-scoped domains rather than general chatbots… | ||
| This Is a Requirement. — "And what does it do?" — "It lights up blue!" | Pierluigi Meloni | 43m |
Argues that poor requirements, not tools, are the main cause of mediocre projects (about 60%); user involvement is the top failure factor. Describes OXID’s… | ||
| The New Scrum Folklore - And What You Can Do About It | Silja Fleißner | 39m |
The talk examines common misunderstandings and myths ('folklore') about Scrum in commercial organizations and why they cause problems. It identifies concrete… | ||
| The Infinite Expanse of (Mobile) Performance… Let’s Conquer It! | Carsten Dütschke | 49m |
The talk examines mobile web performance for e-commerce, focusing on techniques to measure and improve page speed and resource loading. It covers practical… | ||
| From 5 to 100 in Product Development team in just 5 years | Dimitar Siljanovski | 45m |
Company scales product development from ~5 to ~100 engineers across 14 scrum teams with 70% remote staffing, adopts remote‑first culture and Zoom/Google… | ||
| From GUIs to VUIs - How to Design and Create a Chatbot | Sven Sterbling | 43m |
Step-by-step account of building a chatbot from content strategy to deployment: uses IBM Watson and common frameworks, wires into Facebook Messenger and Alexa… | ||
| How to fuck up your remote/offshore development | Chris Philipps | 47m |
Claims that offshoring often fails — roughly 50% failure rate — and that project budgets omit real costs like travel, setup and broken comms. Real problems… | ||
| How we trained a bot to understand fashion requests | Antonia Ermacora, Christopher Lennan | 35m |
Chatshopper builds a conversational commerce layer for fashion shops and replaces a human WhatsApp service with an automated bot that went live in 2016… | ||
| Performance Optimization 101 | Thomas Lohner | 36m |
Thomas Lohner discusses practical techniques for improving web application performance for e‑commerce. He covers profiling and measurement, front‑end… | ||
| Persuasive design patterns: Design experiences that enhance & align with motivations | Jenny Shen | 42m |
Shows an Obama campaign A/B test that splits a one-page donation form into four tabs and drives a 5% lift in conversions using progressive disclosure… | ||
| Happy Little Payments - with Kotlin | Benjamin Schneider | 32m |
OLX Group builds Plutus, a payments gateway that integrates multiple PSPs for 17 brands across 40+ countries, running on Docker/AWS with a PCI and GDPR… | ||
| Code quality as an engine of your IT business | Denis Turkov | 43m |
Company uses a modular, between-monolith-and-microservices architecture with semantic versioned modules and enforced PR gates (1 approver for patch, 2 for… | ||
| How not to fuck up your bot UX | Mario Janschitz | 54m |
Demonstrates building an ecommerce Facebook Messenger bot using Botpress with Google-based caching, prototyping conversation flows via live roleplay, and… | ||
| Scaling e-commerce and transactional systems globally | Füsun Wehrmann | 45m |
OLX runs services across 40 countries, 17 brands, 300M devices and finds most ecommerce stacks are still a single monolith behind a load balancer. Practical… | ||
| Tear down this wall! Overcoming collaboration obstacles on your DevOps journey | Thomas Uebel, Sebastian Schreck | 38m |
Mister Spex describes how backend and webshop teams break silos by pairing developers with ops, building one‑click green/blue deploy pipelines, and introducing… | ||
| Using over owning: How we enable renting business models using tangle ledgers | Stefan Adolf, David Lobato | 41m |
Proof-of-concept that uses the IOTA tangle plus MAM authenticated messaging and low-power IoT (Ruby tag / ESP32 / Nordic / Raspberry Pi) to run… | ||
| Sweet Web Animations API | Rodolfo Dias | 28m |
Demonstrates the experimental Web Animations API by wiring real code: use element.animate with keyframe arrays and options, inspect and control timelines via… | ||
| Product Owner & Developer: An Unexpected Journey | René Hoffmann | 41m |
A practical recipe for improving delivery: use a ticket backlog and break epics into day-sized user stories with clear acceptance criteria, run two-week… | ||
| Building Advanced Voice Applications for Alexa and Google Assistant | Jan König | 44m |
A Berlin startup launches the open‑source Jovo framework in September to let one codebase run on both Alexa and Google Assistant, with community PRs adding… | ||
| Performance Testing 101: e-Commerce | Sebastian Cohnen | 42m |
Overview of performance testing for e-commerce using StormForger tools and techniques. Covers common performance problems in online stores (load, scalability… | ||
| How technology driven B2B disruption works | Daniel Nill, Thomas Kühnel | 31m |
A B2B ecommerce build handles 500 million products across vendors, replaces Redis/Postgres by using Elasticsearch as single source of truth, and cuts data… | ||
| Coding Pirates - How Our Agile Crews at OTTO Go Privateering | Sarah Theilmann, Andre Fleischer | 48m |
Introduces how OTTO organizes cross-functional agile teams called ‘Coding Pirates’ to experiment and deliver features quickly. Describes team structures… | ||
| nothing matches | ||