SolidusConf 2019
2019-10-21..2019-10-24
Salt Lake City, UT, United States
who it's for
Solidus developers, Ruby on Rails developers, extension maintainers, ecommerce engineering managers, tech leads, frontend developers building PWAs
topics
Solidus extensions maintenance; Solidus REST API and SDK; SEO for ecommerce structured data; accessibility audits with axe-core; Docker multi-container on Elastic Beanstalk; CI/CD with GitLab CI and review apps; refactoring with characterization testing; event storming for service decomposition; Dependabot and automated upkeep; skunk stink-score code prioritization; localization seams and feature flags
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| 101 Solidus SEO Tips: The Ultimate Guide | Thomas Sample | 43m |
101 concrete SEO items are listed with measurable specifics: recommends AnswerThePublic and Ahrefs for keyword research, Screaming Frog and Google Search… | ||
| Making the Leap to Tech Lead | Ryan Cromwell | 50m |
Defines the tech lead as a partner with the project manager, measured by team success not individual commits, who builds a vision, creates seams in the system… | ||
| Solidus Internals, an adventure through less known features | Peter Berkenbosch | 24m |
A survey of Solidus’ configuration shows concrete extension points, how they get wired, and what actually changes when swapped: a custom searcher replaces… | ||
| Extensions Are Dead, Long Live Extensions! | Alessandro Desantis | 27m |
Claim: extensions need a radical rework not retirement. Solidus has 50+ extensions (≈180K LOC) with sparse maintenance from a six-person core, so Nebulab… | ||
| Taking Solidus From Development to Production | Taylor Scott | 37m |
Shows how to deploy a Solidus Rails app as multi-container Docker on Elastic Beanstalk with an ALB, EC2 instances running nginx + Puma, and Postgres, using… | ||
| Escaping the Tar Pit | Ernesto Tagwerker | 40m |
Combines code coverage and static metrics into a single “stink score” that prioritizes files to refactor, implemented as the skunk gem that reads Ruby Critic… | ||
| Building Accessible Careers | Jen Luker | 34m |
Claims internal tools block hiring and diversity, citing ~61 million US adults (26%) and fewer than one in ten websites accessible; inaccessible CMS or admin… | ||
| Breaking Up The Monolith With EQ | Braden Douglass | 27m |
Argues that emotional‑intelligence markers predict when a team can safely split a monolith and offers concrete signals: regular package publishing and daily… | ||
| Quickly and Safely Refactoring Legacy Code | Jason Swett | 35m |
Argues refactoring succeeds by three concrete practices: one-line commits and running the automated test suite before each commit, deploying tiny deltas… | ||
| Solidus API: From PWAs to Native and Beyond | Joel Saupe | 43m |
Solidus exposes a REST API with roughly 270 endpoints across ~30 controllers and about a third of models reachable; a 30,000‑product catalog drives decisions… | ||
| Community Driven Solidus | Sean Denny | 17m |
Solidus now runs under a loose nonprofit, community-driven structure with 16 active stakeholders and two inactive founders, weekly open meetings, votes… | ||
| Lightning Talks | Eric Saupe, Matthew Bass, Rob Kellas, Alberto Vena, Gregor MacDougall | 28m |
Four rapid updates with concrete outcomes and open work: a point‑of‑sale built on Solidus that runs as a react PWA on iPads, talks to Bluetooth payment… | ||
| Solidus Conf 2019 Recap Video | 02m | |
Video focuses on concrete community changes and outcomes it documents a new roadmap for Solidus and launches a new support Solidus initiative it records that… | ||
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