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1. Fauzan Emmerling
VP Engineering

2. • What is Prism
• Our Architecture
• Our Challenges
• Our Team
• Our Culture
• The Future
Agenda

3. Prism in a Nutshell

4. • “The Coral Experiment”
• 14% Conversion Rate
• Chat to buy works!
• A conversion booster tool
• Increase conversion by socially engaging with your customers
• Convert chat/sales agent into a super agent
• Currently live at tees.co.id and polkabeauty.com
What is Prism

6. Prism - Architecture

7. Split into 6 core domains:
• Access & Auth
• User
• Chat
• Product
• Checkout
• Analytics
Our Architecture

8. • Micro-services
• Multiple languages
• Python
• Go
• Java
• Scala
• JavaScript
• Ruby
• Multiple frameworks
• Tornado
• Flask
• Gin
• Play
• Express
• Multiple storage engines
• MariaDB
• Cassandra
• Elastic Search
• Redis
• Containerized
• Docker
• Rancher
Our Architecture

9. And how we deal with ..
Prism - Challenges

10. • Logging
• Centralized via Logentries
• Log from stdout and stderr
• Implement collection agent
• Debugging
• Logentries
• Request ID to enable point to point consistency
• Monitoring
• New relic
• Internal metrics
• Data collection
• Collection agent
• Highly scalable API
• Latency
• Identify and remove bottlenecks
• Effective routing
• Improve execution time
• Scalability
• Vertical scalability
• Docker and rancher
Our Challenges

11. Why rancher?
Our Challenges

12. Our Challenges

13. With rancher we can:
• Easily add container and have it added to load balancers
• Easily add host
• Abstract data centers
• Ensure zero downtime deployment
• Adjust to the required scale in seconds
• Have happier devs and ops
Our Challenges

14. Quality Assurance
To ensure quality we do these steps of quality checking:
1. Unit test by developers
2. Integration test by developers
3. On PR Review all unit and integration test should pass
4. PR should get approval from more than 50% assigned reviewers
5. UI/instrumentation test
6. Load testing
7. Manual regression testing
8. Smoke test after production deployment
Our Challenges

15. Prism - Team

16. • 20+ engineers
• Web frontend, Android, iOS,
Backend, Data, DevOps
• Junior to Lead level
• 3 cities - Jakarta, Bandung, Jogja
• Mostly in Jogja and Bandung
Our Team
Well..managing team across cities is
..Exciting!

17. • Over-communicate
• Technically Strong
• Weekly brownbag
• Bi-weekly pinkbag
• 1 hackweek per quarter - your ideas matter
• Being active in community
• Sports together (futsal, badminton, swimming)
• Team dinner
• BBQ Party
• PS4 together
• CS:GO together - Standup everyday at 4PM
Our Culture

18. Prism - How we see the future

19. Everything should be composable
• Adaptive business process based on merchant
• Merchant can self manage
• Chat flows can be composed by merchants
• Think of it as lego building blocks
The Future

20. Everything composable
The Future

21. The Future
Everything composable

22. Everything standardized
Introducing ACTA
• Stands for Actor - Action - Object - Meta
• A humane way of representing Activities within a socially themed
application
• All components speak the same way
• Easily composed by engineers and non-engineers
The Future

23. {
"actor": {
"id": "2fe614af-266b-4773-a066-3b518763380b",
"kind": "person"
},
"action": "flight-search-with-budget",
"object": {
"id": "IDR-1000000",
"kind": "currency-number"
},
"meta": {
"currency": "IDR",
"number": 15000000,
"origin": {
"latitude": 40.730610,
"longitude": -73.935242
},
"passengers": {
"adults": 1,
"children": 0,
"infants": 0
}
}
}
The Future
ACTA example:

24. Everything data driven
• Personalized experience
• Smart triggers
• Smart customization
• Smart recommendation
• NLP
• Anything machine learning, you name it
The Future

25. Humanizing e-Commerce, let’s just call it Commerce.
Our Goal

26. Yes, we're hiring
https://www.prismapp.io/careers