1.
Rakuten Global
Technology Strategy
2010/10/16
Development Unit
1

2.
Hirotaka Yoshitaka
 Title: Technical Director
 Mission: Lead the technical direction of
Rakuten
– Improve software development productivity
(introducing Agile software development) and
Yoshioka reduce cost.
– Build Scalable computer
twitter @hyoshiok – Build developers community in Rakuten and
promote OSS strategy
 Joined Rakuten since August 2009,
before it, he was a founding member
and CTO of Miracle linux since 2010.
More than 25 years experience in the IT.
 OSS activist
DEBUG HACKS (in Japanese),
O’reilly Japan 2

3.
Federation Technical Meeting
3

4.
Many challenges
Great technology can integrate us.
4

5.
Introduction
- Goals of this meeting -
• Generate synergy through the entire Rakuten group by exchanging
best practices each other.
• How to realize it from technical and system aspects?
Own Development Center
China How to generate
Japan Taiwan
synergy?
・・・
TARAD FreeCause
Global Development Discuss at
・・・
“Federation Technical
PriceMinister LS Meeting”
Buy.com
M&A companies
5

6.
Our team – contributors (random order)
Terje Sathya Justin Kiran Yoshioka
Pom Ziegler Chida
Thomas
Frank
Satoshi
Phuwadon
Sekine Rohinee Fernandes Hayase Katsutoshi James
Masao Shiotani
Arai
Parathan
Naojiro
Nakasone Hisada Kaoru Osada
Masaya Mori
Tanaka Tazawa 6

7.
Introduction
7

8.
8

9.
Justin Ziegler
 Title: CIO & CTO of PriceMinister
 Mission: define and implement IT strategy of
PriceMinister.com
– Global functional roadmap
– Software architecture roadmap
– Support growth of users and data
Justin Ziegler
– Implement new lines of revenue
– Optimize existing revenue
 Cofounder of PriceMinister in 2000
 CTO of profile4u in 1999
 Cofounder of first French internet payment
system in 1995
 Board member of a French CIO club
 Member of the jury of Ecommerce awards
9

10.
PriceMinister
10

11.
What is PriceMinister.com
 C2C & B2C market place
 Barcodes and catalogues in our DNA
 Listing products is free and efficient
 Main categories : books, cd, dvd, vidéo
games, computing HW, clothing…
 Very little customization in shops
 PriceMinister is an escrow & provides a
garantie to buyers and sellers
 Main revenue comes from transactions
11

12.
What is PriceMinister.com
 Founded in 2000
 Now one of the largest e-commerce sites
in France
 Made a few acquisitions in 2008 :
 voyagermoinscher.com travel price
comparison site
 avendrealouer.fr real-estate site
 Emailing company
 200 employees
 Main business deployed in 3 countries
12

13.
13

14.
Pawoot Pongvitayapanu
• Pom – Pawoot Pongvitayapanu
(Please do not try to pronounce my surname)
• Managing Director & Founder
TARAD.com (Thailand)
Pawoot (Pom)
Pongvithayapanu
• We will make Thailand E-Commerce
Revolution
14

15.
TARAD.com
15

16.
Case study of Group company
- TARAD Dot Com -
Name of Company TARAD Dot Com
•Employee’s head count: 80
Company profile •date of foundation: 1999
•Business style: B to B to C
Increase Revenue Company & Merchant
Management point Optimize Operation Flow
of focus Maximize Marketing Efficiency
R&D of new technology
16

17.
Case study of Group company
- TARAD Dot Com -
Hot topic (of development methodology and environment)
• LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP
• License Cost = Zero
• Example : Facebook, Yahoo
• Technology Utilized in TARAD
• OS: CentOS/Ubuntu
• DB: MySQL
• NoSQL: Redis, Memcached [Future trend: MongoDB]
• Web: Apache, Nginx
• Storage: MogileFS, GlusterFS, [+Netapp]
• Caching : Varnish
• Search: Migrating from Sphinx to Solr
• Other Tools: Gearman, Zabbix, Jmeter, SVN,
• API and Social Network Connectivity
• TARAD.com on AR technology (Layar Application)
• Linked with Facebook and twitter (Gain Traffic and GMS)
URL : http://apps.facebook.com/taraddotcom/
17