Our VP of Technology presents at the EAN Partner Summit 2011 on how EAN is massively transforming its technology infrastructure to provide more comprehensive & faster offerings to our partners.

1. 99 Problems and a Platform Ain’t One
Eachan Fletcher, CTO and Technical Adventurer
December 2011

2. hi – I’m new here

3. but...

6. what am I really here for?

7. innovation

8. innovation

9. to power YOUR
innovation

10. what don’t you have to do,
because I already did it?

11. The Platform Pie
all the code I could
possibly write
all the code which
makes me special

12. cart
accounts
SSL
SEO/SEM accounts
web basics
payments email
analytics
search
URL rewriting

13. availability sort
product reviews/opinion
geography
catalogue
coupons
booking travel basics
cross-sell pricing loyalty
policy weather
inventory

14. widgets
merchandising
tools JSON web
service
oh and some apps
template sites
reporting tools
XML web service

15. that's a platform

17. my milkshakes bring the devs to the yard

18. business-ready capabilities

19. business-ready capabilities
+ knowledge and experience

20. 6 A/B tests
2 releases
6,255 price changes
968 promotions
16,500 bookings
2.7M searches
0.8bn room nights priced
350 reviews
2520 packages
1.6TB data

21. who’s up for some computer science?

22. entrypoints

24. entrypoint depth multiplies the business
flexibility of any given service
Eachan’s 3rd law of platform architecture

25. diameter

28. compute work becomes exponentially cheaper
and faster as it approaches the edge
Eachan’s 4th law of platform architecture

29. capability
performance
durability

30. for each question;
send to null
loop