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Don't Use Spree

As presented at SpreeConf 2014 in NYC

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Transcript

  1. Don’t Use Spree Jeff Casimir

  2. About You

  3. Too Important

  4. Who Makes 
 This Thing?

  5. None

  6. Who Makes 
 This Thing?

  7. CEO

  8. None

  9. What a Team
 Looks Like

  10. None

  11. Open Source
 Is Stupid

  12. None
  13. None

  14. Open Source
 Means Problems

  15. Bugs Are
 Secrets

  16. Open Source
 Has Bugs

  17. None
  18. None
  19. None
  20. None
  21. None

  22. Closed Source
 Is Safe

  23. None

  24. Bugs Can Be 
 Features

  25. Upgrading Versions

  26. None
  27. None

  28. Who You Gonna Call?

  29. None

  30. Spree’s “Support”

  31. None
  32. None
  33. None
  34. None

  35. The Business Case
 Is Clear

  36. The Software

  37. Just Build It Yourself

  38. None

  39. Job Security

  40. The Ruby & The Rails

  41. The PHP

  42. None
  43. None
  44. None

  45. Abstractions = Lies

  46. None

  47. Code Is Hiding

  48. spree spree_api spree_backend spree_cmd spree_core spree_frontend spree_sample

  49. Opening an Engine

  50. bundle open spree_api

  51. None

  52. Hi! I am Clippy, your programming assistant. Would you like

    me to build your store’s API?

  53. Engine Replacement

  54. Changing Authorization Providers

  55. Say You Get It All
 Put Together

  56. How Deployment Should Be

  57. None

  58. Deploying Spree

  59. None
  60. None
  61. None

  62. You’re Responsible

  63. Don’t Use Spree • Open Source is Too Dangerous •

    The Project and Platform are Too Old • Spree Enslaves Their Support Team • The Software Is Too Modular • Deployment Is Too Hard Jeff Casimir