Great implementation - it's very snappy compared to Magento, especially in basket during checkout actions.
I was going to suggest similar to what you I think you're doing, a boring relational database fronted by nosql. -John On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Vinayak Mishra <[email protected]> wrote: > I feel no shame at admitting we are no good at creating eye-catching > designs, hence no fancy stuff, just a simple design and straight to the > point. We had to do away with magento system because it wasn't good at > handling a lot of load. We also had to come up with a in-house solution and > were pretty impressed with exciting prospect Node.js offered. > > The current single server app is capable of handling twice the traffic > with much ease what multiple servers we had magento running on were not > able to. Site speed improved, user engagement improved a lot, better > conversion rates, backend consoles became faster, the list goes on. Yes, we > could line up more servers, tune the servers to handle more load, we chose > to spend time/effort in Node.js rather. > > -- Vinayak > > > > On 09/27/2012 02:37 AM, Alexey Petrushin wrote: > > > that scale to millions of operations per second > He-he, I believe, if Your e-commerce solution will have such load - You > may easily hire as many developers and do as many databases, simultaneously > as You wish :) > > > We at Urbantouch (www.urbantouch.com), an Indian e-commerce startup, > .... > Nice site, clean, simple and compact design, like it, by the way why did > You drop magento, what features do You wanted/missed? > > On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 9:46:30 PM UTC+4, Nicotene wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> We at Urbantouch (www.urbantouch.com), an Indian e-commerce startup, >> have built a tailor-made node.js e-commerce platform/frontend/crm, >> logistics backend. >> >> It's been 6 months we ditched magento platform for the home-grown >> node.js setup, needless to say we're delighted with the performance. >> It's an expressjs application supplemented by numerous node modules, >> mysql, redis, last but not least, a lot of node.js goodies! We are >> thrilled with the fact that we were able to go into production in quick >> span of time with a young team. >> >> Regards, >> Vinayak >> > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- > Regards, > Vinayak > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- John R. Fitzgerald -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
