This month's topic: Production-Ready Web Services with Dropwizard

Dropwizard is a Java framework for developing ops-friendly, high-performance, RESTful web services. The library was developed at Yammer and has been adopted by Simple (formerly BankSimple) and the Gilt Groupe. We will discuss how Gilt is using Dropwizard and why we adopted the library.

Speaker: Sean Sullivan

Sean is a software engineer specializing in e-commerce systems, web services development, and mobile applications. Sean works on back-office applications at the Gilt Groupe and has contributed to various open source projects, including the OAuth Java library and OpenID4Java.

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This month's topic: Taxes and Payments at Gilt

Gilt is an online retailer based out of New York City. Gilt's main site, gilt.com, offers luxury apparel and home furnishings. This talk will discuss how Gilt.com supports taxes and payments. We'll discuss Gilt's checkout system and order processing backend.

Speaker:

Sean Sullivan is a software engineer specializing in e-commerce systems, web services development, and mobile applications. Sean works on back office applications at Gilt. Sean has contributed to various open source projects, including the OAuth Java library, OpenID4Java, and OpenCSV.

Gilt is an e-commerce fashion retailer. Gilt's application platform leverages popular programming languages such as Java, Scala, Ruby, and JavaScript.

This talk will focus on data persistence strategies in Gilt's core systems: order processing, payment management, invoicing, and checkout. We'll discuss the Event Sourcing pattern and its implementation in a production system.

Speaker:

Sean Sullivan is a Principal Software Engineer at Gilt. Sean has been a member of Gilt's backoffice team since 2011.

Doors open at 6pm for pizza provided by TEKSystems. The presentation will begin at 6:30pm.

slides: https://speakerdeck.com/sullis/e-commerce-under-the-hood