Sylius as a... Vending machine? A tale of unusual Sylius' use-cases

We all know, that our beloved Open-Source Swan has its natural habitat in the deep waters of eCommerce. But it's not the only area where it can live! In my talk, I will present some unusual use-cases and architecture designs where Sylius finds itself perfectly thanks to its design and expendability.

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1. Sylius as a... Vending machine? Konrad Alfaro @ SyliusCon 2024 A tale of unusual Sylius' use-cases
2. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 About me 💜 CEO @ 8lines 🧠 Solutions Architect 👨🏫 Trainer and Consultant 🤖 Backend Software Engineer 🐱 Animal lover
3. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 3 projects, 1 8lines
4. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Project Mustang 🐴
5. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Background • Equestrian specialist platform • Marketplace features • Users can’t buy anything (yet) • Very detailed requirements • MVP phase of the business
6. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Challenges • Time to market is crucial • Adopt to constantly changing requirements • Introduce multiple offer types
7. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Hexagonal architecture
9. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Contexts
11. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 “Hexagonal” architecture
12. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 “Hexagonal” architecture
13. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Entity architecture
14. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Before
15. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Inheritance Mapping
16. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 After
19. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 What we used from Sylius? 🦢 Sylius-Standard 🏷 Taxonomies 👥 Customers
20. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 What we used from Sylius? 🦢 Sylius-Standard 🏷 Taxonomies 👥 Customers
21. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 What we used from Sylius? 🦢 Sylius-Standard 🏷 Taxonomies 👥 Customers
22. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Conclusion ✅ Sylius is a great base not only for a standard eCommerce site ✅ Sylius as a framework gives great features for bootstrapping business ✅ Symfony and Doctrine as a foundation of Sylius give you a lot of possibilities
23. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Project Roomba 🧹
24. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Background • Automated butcher store • Project on early stage of development • Sold as a white-label
25. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Challenges • Communication with external systems like ERP and PIM • Communication with machine software to operate the vending process • Implement kiosk interface
26. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Modular architecture
30. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Symfony Process
33. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Tauri & Next.js
35. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 What we used from Sylius? 🦢 Sylius-Standard 🛒 Orders & Checkout 🧱 Plugins & modularity
36. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 What we used from Sylius? 🦢 Sylius-Standard 🛒 Orders & Checkout 🧱 Plugins & modularity
37. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 What we used from Sylius? 🦢 Sylius-Standard 🛒 Orders & Checkout 🧱 Plugins & modularity
38. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Conclusion ✅ Sylius can be a perfect connector between many different systems ✅ Implementing kiosk software is easy with the new API
39. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Project OnlyTrucks 🚛
40. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Background • Mobile app for truckers • Subscription based access • Content is mainly statistical data and tables • Introduce new company’s website
41. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Challenges • Subscription, one-time payment or upfront payment support • Mobile App 💀
42. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Architecture overview
44. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Capacitor.js & React.js
47. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 What we used from Sylius? 🕷 API (Platform) 🛒 Orders & Checkout 🧱 Plugins & modularity
48. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 What we used from Sylius? 🕷 API (Platform) 🛒 Orders & Checkout 🧱 Plugins & modularity
49. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 What we used from Sylius? 🕷 API (Platform) 🛒 Orders & Checkout 🧱 Plugins* & modularity
50. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Conclusion ✅ Sylius can be a great monolithic platform to implement fast changing requirements ✅ Sylius can be a good platform to connect multiple external systems ✅ Sylius can be just a small piece of larger system
51. 8lines.io SyliusCon 2024 Thanks! @8linesTeam 8lines.io 🔗