code.talks commerce 2019
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome speech | Marten Westphal, Alexander Graf | 29m |
Opening overview lists every conference track overview, program slot times, and extra features like on-site food, drinks and an evening party; names shown… | ||
| Sticky API: Connect Bricks and enter a global IT-ecosystem | Denis Turkov | 40m |
Argues that a production API must be built as modular services with automated tooling: Spryker uses JSON:API but allows multiple formats, a separated API… | ||
| Vorsprung durch Services - Differentiation via a headless commerce API | Yves Schleich | 32m |
The talk explains why retailers can no longer compete on product assortment or lowest price alone and must instead differentiate through customer journeys and… | ||
| What it takes to become a great developer! | Christian Zacharias | 33m |
Claims that greatness comes from specific skills not languages and that maintainability drives value, backed by a cited split: 75% adaptive/perfective vs 21%… | ||
| Hands-On ModSecurity and Logging | Philipp Krenn | 35m |
A live demo shows a deliberately vulnerable PHP shop that is exploited with sqlmap to add fake employees, logs full SQL queries to a file, and centralizes… | ||
| Versioning in a Microservice Architecture | Stephan Schulze | 35m |
Real-world system at an e‑commerce operator implements a build-time dependency graph created from code annotations and Docker builds, tracks versions as a… | ||
| 5 Levels of Automated Testing of an E-commerce Project | Petr Heinz | 37m |
Five concrete testing layers for an e-commerce stack: fast unit tests that run 1,000+ tests in 4s against the shops framework, functional tests that boot… | ||
| Situationalization: Using situational data to optimize online shops | Ralph Hünermann | 44m |
Claim: use situational data (device, referrer, weekday, time, location, weather, cookie state) to rank products for unknown users via real-time clustering over… | ||
| Software Quality === Health | Roland Golla | 52m |
The talk links software quality and developer health, arguing that automated testing and sustainable development practices improve employee wellbeing, reduce… | ||
| Developer Portal for the App Store of IoT | Peter Kiss | 31m |
Conrad Connect runs an App‑Store style service marketplace where developers publish actions — Node/JS backends with HTML/CSS frontends — that can read and… | ||
| Are you human or a damn bot? | Samy Makki | 49m |
About half of web traffic is non‑human and e‑commerce sites see both harmless crawlers and profit‑driven fraud bots; logs show 4 million vs 300k (human vs… | ||
| Mastering Traffic Spikes with AWS | Andreas Ulm | 28m |
How to prepare and operate e-commerce sites on AWS for traffic spikes (e.g., TV appearances or product launches), covering caching strategies (central vs… | ||
| Our way to a state-of-the-art tech organization | Atul Bhardwaj | 35m |
MediaMarktSaturn reorganizes 95–100 business-led product teams, hires ~205 engineers and 65 agile coaches, and runs a nine‑week bootcamp to train 120+ staff… | ||
| On-premise, Cloud, Headless - A comparison of different e-commerce systems. | Ulrike Mueller | 28m |
Compares three archetypes and argues that vertical integration (SaaS) delivers tuned CDNs and databases for better performance and lower ops, while licensed… | ||
| Debugging AI | Dr. Christian Betz | 43m |
Claims that debugging ML is unlike traditional software: models hide failures, non‑stationary retraining multiplies failure states, and you cannot unit‑test… | ||
| Building smarter solutions with Machine Learning, from magic to reality | Laurent Picard | 57m |
Shows concrete Google Cloud tools and live results: Vision, Video Intelligence, Natural Language, Speech-to-Text and WaveNet TTS, plus AutoML Vision that… | ||
| 5G's Impact on Commerce | Kelly Goetsch | 36m |
Claims rapid 5G rollout delivers 10 gigabits per second for fixed devices and below one millisecond latency, but requires dense urban towers every few blocks… | ||
| Hypothesis - Driven Development in action | Simon Baumer | 30m |
Builds a lightweight experiment: add a checkbox to sell author images, gate it with feature flags and deploy from trunk, track a backend event and measure… | ||
| How to Build and Monitor a Fast and Reliable Search Application | Tobias Kässmann, Jonas Leine | 37m |
Mondia’s search backend powers streaming and DTO services for millions of users (customers include o2 and Vodafone in Germany); the team implemented streaming… | ||
| The Future Doesn't Arrive – It's Made. By Us. | Pierluigi Meloni | 46m |
The talk surveys how technological change (global platforms, AI) shifts industrial revolutions from discrete, versionable epochs into continuous evolution… | ||
| Transforming a PHP Team into PWA Superheroes | Fabian Schmengler | 36m |
A Magento agency shifts a PHP team to deliver PWAs by incrementally replacing frontend pieces, starting with a React product configurator that handles complex… | ||
| Trust Is Key for Customer Interaction | Raymonde Sawal, Yosra Labidi | 42m |
This talk explains why e-commerce companies must build trust early by aligning marketing and sales to drive customer interaction and brand formation. It… | ||
| How we built a delightful offline-first order platform for our B2B partners | Till Hess, Philipp Brumm | 31m |
Built an offline-first B2B order platform that caches the entire product dataset in the browser so sales reps can take orders without connectivity, validate… | ||
| Prepare for warp speed – How to establish a scalable IT organization | Steffen Heilmann | 49m |
Describes how a company prepared IT to scale while launching a new brand and large TV marketing, by introducing Scrum and more formal processes to handle… | ||
| Clean Code - Benefits of Refactoring | Roland Golla | 43m |
The talk explains how to improve software quality in an existing project by applying Clean Code practices, focusing on code standards, conventions, and regular… | ||
| api-platform | Stefan Adolf | 39m |
Rapidly builds a production-grade REST and GraphQL API for IoT smart shelves by annotating Doctrine entities and adding one composer dependency to enable… | ||
| Does My Shop Need to Be in the Cloud? | Thomas Lohner | 36m |
The talk evaluates cloud hosting for online shops by testing cloud providers’ marketing claims against practical effects on e-commerce. It names cloud-native… | ||
| When scalability becomes more than a buzzword, or how to saddle a unicorn | Marten Westphal | 33m |
Company story: builds a service-oriented platform from scratch, migrates entire infrastructure to AWS migration in ~6 months, and scales to 200 million… | ||
| MVP, Innovation, Customer Centricity, Disruption, Agility... | Boris Lokschin, Ulrike Müller, Johannes Altmann, Eileen Vollrath | 53m |
Practical advice on making modern product and project approaches work in real organizations: the presenters compare commonly touted concepts (MVP, innovation… | ||
| Taming Complexity through Automation | Marco Podien | 32m |
Argues that reducing accidental complexity requires tooling that actually scaffolds, enforces and runs code, not platitudes: shows a containerised Spryker… | ||
| Serverless Commerce: Higher, Stronger, FaaSter! | Christoph Neijenhuis | 34m |
Serverless commerce uses FaaS plus cloud-native APIs to replace servers with pay-per-use services and align provider/customer incentives, with cloud events for… | ||
| Staying Flexible with a Platform-Agnostic Storefront | Alexander Nickel | 33m |
The talk explains building a platform-agnostic PWA storefront using Angular to decouple the frontend from backend ecommerce platforms (specifically enabling a… | ||
| 450 Days Remote Only – the Frontastic Experience Report | Henning Emmrich | 44m |
Henning Emmrich explains Frontastic’s 450-day experiment operating as a fully remote engineering organization, describing why they rejected a central startup… | ||
| Shop Owner Panel: Nice Idea, But How Do You Do It in Practice? | Roman Zenner, Martin Möllmann, David Beuchert, Ingo Mommertz, Steffen Heilmann | 47m |
CTO- and IT-lead panel on practical shop operation challenges: team organization, choosing technologies, testing and rolling out new features, performing… | ||
| Challenges and Lessons in Internationalization | Ferry Hötzel | 28m |
Ferry Hötzel describes practical challenges and lessons from guiding two companies through internationalization. He outlines how internationalization… | ||
| Self Contained Systems: The Good, the Bad & the Ugly | Simon Härer, Johannes von Krane | 44m |
Self Contained Systems (SCS) macro-architecture used in large e‑commerce platforms is examined, focusing on its technical benefits like shared‑nothing and… | ||
| Connecting the dots: observability in large e-commerce environments | John Bodenstein | 39m |
A real-world observability path: a real-time CDN logs pipeline (Akamai → processing) groups requests into pages and calculates error rates so teams see which… | ||
| Flamingo - Inspiring Commerce Frontend made in Go | Daniel Pötzinger | 38m |
Flamingo is an open‑source Go microframework (MIT) that the team publishes two days before the conference and already runs in five teams internally; it… | ||
| Evolving E-Commerce with Go and Flamingo | Bastian Ike | 30m |
AOE replaces PHP frontends with a Go-based stack, develops the Flamingo framework for microservice-oriented HTML rendering, and runs it in production for over… | ||
| The art of building a framework | Stefan Nieuwenhuis | 33m |
Ecommerce platform runs 60 autonomous teams using React, Angular(JS/2+) and Vue, causing inconsistent UIs; team builds a framework‑independent design system of… | ||
| Software Development Over Time | Florian Schoch | 37m |
Florian Schoch describes 19 years of software development at idealo, focusing on how evolving technologies and changing requirements shaped long-term decisions… | ||
| Serverless with OpenFaaS - Live Example | Lars Rieche | 38m |
Live demonstration of an OpenFaaS installation that builds and deploys a real feature: containerized functions that run Node.js, Go, C#, or binaries like… | ||
| Scaling with PWA | Solomon Ayoola | 45m |
Progressive Web Apps cut load times with concrete results: 53% of users abandon sites over 3s, and small speed gains raise conversions (one cited 27% lift; 2%… | ||
| How cinema and coding are alike? | Rodolfo Dias | 20m |
A shared component library called Luna UI is built with React + StyledComponents to stop repeating the same UI code across four apps, where developers were… | ||
| Asynchronous PHP | Florian Engelhardt | 32m |
Shows how to reduce PHP app latency by using asynchronous architecture with ReactPHP and RabbitMQ to avoid blocking waits for databases, SMTP/HTTP services… | ||
| Testing on Production, deep backend edition | Mykola Gurov | 41m |
by Mykola Gurov
Why do we test on production? Why not avoid this risk at any cost?
Thorough testing before merging to master is great, but it doesn’t cover… | ||
| The search for App-iness: building the future with Progressive Web Apps | Jamie Maria Schouren | 43m |
Progressive Web Apps are concrete: they require service workers, web app manifest and HTTPS, use a service-worker cache proxy to deliver offline‑first, instant… | ||
| How "Penis-Pull-Requesting" affects Teams & Products | Andre Biel | 37m |
Claims that ego-driven pull requests — coined Penis-Pull-Requesting — regularly stall shipping: a simple "show the magic price" feature (backend and CMS… | ||
| What Do You Get When Powerpoint and Excel Have a Baby? | Nils Breitmann | 38m |
Nils Breitmann explains using no-code and low-code platforms for digital commerce, comparing them to a hybrid of PowerPoint and Excel. He covers theory plus… | ||
| When colour theory meets technology | Krystal Campioni | 19m |
Claims a repeatable pipeline that turns one chosen hue into accessible palettes by combining Vue.js UI, Sass adjust-hue loops, CSS variables and the NPM color… | ||
| How to help BI & AI people as a software engineer? | Martin Loetzsch | 28m |
Recommends specific fixes: grant query access via a read replica or nightly DB dumps, secure with VPN/SSH/IP restrictions, and stop sharing CSVs; provide a… | ||
| Back for the Future: How Does a Traditional Retailer Transform? | Frank Leue | 33m |
Frank Leue explains how a traditional retailer modernized a self-built on-premises shop by adopting a Cloud Native strategy and selective microservice… | ||
| Free the Functions - Open Source Serverless | Ewan Slater | 33m |
Argues serverless boosts developer productivity and saves cost, then shows FN Project: an open source, portable serverless platform that packages each function… | ||
| Code kills planet earth | Jan-Timon Henne | 43m |
Claims that data centers consume ~10% of global energy and could reach ~20% within six years, with Facebook alone matching the annual energy of 35 countries… | ||
| The Choice of Shop System Is Irrelevant | Lars Jankowfsky, Boris Lokschin, Pierluigi Meloni, Nils Breitmann, Christian Zacharias | 52m |
Panelists from Intershop, OXID, Spryker and Shopify debate whether shop system choice matters for eCommerce success, arguing that know‑how, team, engineers and… | ||
| The Not Always Glamorous But Seldomly Boring Journey of Digital Transformation | Vahid Gharavi | 25m |
Four years into METRO's transformation the claim is clear: rigid tech dogma slows outcomes, so the organization loosens rules and focuses on outcomes. A custom… | ||
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