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Ichiba Architecture
Oct/26/2013
Takao Shiono
Executive Officer

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Growth
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Growth
• 83,570,000+ users
• 800,000,000+ purchase info
• 100,000,000+ reviews
• 41,000+ merchants
• Tremendous amount of search queries
• Hundreds GB access log per day
etc.
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Head
Office
E-Commerce
eBook
Travel
Other services & businesses
Rakuten Institute of Technology
Development center
Head Office / Regional Headquarters
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Unique
『Amazon.comやeBayは、商品を中心に構築されている。
しかし楽天は出店者を中心としたインターネット商店街であり、商品街ではない』
at Ruby World Conference 2010
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Synergy
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Rakuten Ichiba
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Aside
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Rakuten Ichiba’s Challenge
Oct/26/2013
Kazuya Sakamoto
Group Manager
EC Core Platform Group
EC Technology Section
Rakuten Ichiba Development Department

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Contents
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Growth
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Synergy
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Contents
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1. Growth
- Annual GMS [2012]
(GMS=Growth Merchandise Sales)
[billion]
¥14,000
¥12,000
¥10,000
¥8,000
¥6,000
¥4,000
¥2,000
¥0
Rakuten
A
Y
Rakuten Ichiba is No.1 EC Site ! But…
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1. Growth
Regular maintenance : 7hour/month
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1. Growth
24/7 Shopping
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1. Growth
Item ( Get )
Order ( put )
Regular maintenance
×
×
Item
Information
Order
Information
Ichiba system was dependent on DB!
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1. Growth
Item ( Get )
Basket ( put )
○
○
item data cache
180,000,000 item
basket data cache
3,000,000 order
Item
Information
Order
Information
×
×
15:00- adopt a Ichiba’s Technology” 5F
Ichiba “Rakuten redundant architecture!
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Contents
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Growth
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Unique
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Synergy
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2. Expand
Orders are shipped to over 140 countries (2013/07 – 2013/09)
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2. Expand
Do you know Micronesia
?
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2. Expand
Development Key Issue
1. Shipping
- International Destinations
2. Japan Ichiba Item data
- Legacy Issue
?
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2. Expand
1. International Destinations
→ System Association (2012/08)
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2. Expand
2. Japan Ichiba Item Data
Legacy Issue
EUC
DB
Size
: 3.4 TB
Table : 100
Record : 4 Billion
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2. Expand
2. Japan Ichiba Item Data
Legacy Issue → Fixed (2013/09)
DB
EUC
New DB
UTF
We changed character encoding in 2013/09!
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Synergy
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3. Unique
Rakuten consist over 40,000 merchants!
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3. Unique
+ Connect our system to Rakuten system!
- payment
- item registration
+ Improve own operation
- Own system is nothing
- There is no money for make own system
+ Several requirement
- reduce many inquiry
- How to input a correct genre?
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3. Unique
Add function
in RMS
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3. Unique
API
3rd party
Add function
in RMS
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3. Unique
Rakuten Summit
Rakuten Ichiba Development members joined!
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3. Unique
We support merchants with 79 vendors (3rd-party) !
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3. Unique
Rakuten EXPO/Conference
Rakuten Ichiba Development members joined!
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Contents
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Growth
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Unique
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Synergy
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4. Synergy
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4. Synergy
Ichiba Policy
- Keep Service
- Speed!! Speed!! Speed!!
- Make More Function/Relation
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4. Synergy
( 2013/09 )
I think we prioritized “Speed!!” excessively.
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4. Synergy
Ichiba Policy
- Keep Service
→ Be Difficult to Maintain
- Speed!! Speed!! Speed!!
→ Slow!!
- Make Many Function/Relation
→ Make A Few Function/Relation
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4. Synergy
Technical Issue
- A large number of dependent
( Node=755, Edge=1,233 )
- Anything connect DB
( 1DB ⇔ 66 Application )
- Diverse version
( OS, MW, programing language, script )
etc.
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4. Synergy
Case 1
Merchant / Consumer
Front
App A
API
Data
App B
App C
App D
API α
DB
If we need to change our database…
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4. Synergy
Case 1
Merchant / Consumer
Front
App A
API
Data
App B
App C
App D
API α
DB
We have to modify & test many applications.
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4. Synergy
Case 1
Merchant / Consumer
Front
App A
API
Data
App B
App C
App D
API α
DB
We will integrate many connection by making API.
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Conclusion
24/7 Shopping
Oversea
Simple
Architecture
Merchant
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Contents
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Extra
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Load to 2020
“Legacy Architecture” → “Next Architecture”
Yasutake※1 Tanaka※2
Kurozumi※2
※1 Senior Executive Officer
※2 Executive Officer
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0. Extra
Let’s make Rakuten’s history together !!
http://corp.rakuten.co.jp/careers/engineer/
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