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December 4th, 2020
Omnyway CTO Robert Berger and Omnyway DevOps Lead Isaac Praveen present the fast track to developing a livestream commerce solution using Clojure/Clojurescript and AWS Amplify at the 2020 re:Clojure conference
The Talk
The Age of Coronavirus hit Omnyway hard. Our customer base, brick and mortar luxury retailers, shutdown as their shoppers were not shopping. Our biz folks came up with a great idea to restore our customer’s business and our own: A Live Streaming Commerce Platform. Retailers would be able to produce live streaming events from their stores to their cliental. The platform would enable fulfilment via pickup or shipping, all using a dashboard webapp in the stores. The cliental would be able to view events and make immediate purchases and payment thru a webapp on their phones, tablets or PCs.
All we would have to do is create sophisticated Dashboard and Mobile First webapps with scalable live streaming, chatting, product presentation / selection and payment from scratch with a team of 5 backend Clojure devs and 2 qa folks before we run out of our very limited cash runway. Oh and none of us have much experience with frontend or live streaming development.
Less than 4 months later we had our first beta customers running events and making sales. Clojure / Clojurescript, a seasoned team and AWS Amplify / AppSync were the combination of ingredients enabling our technical success.
We will present the tools and techniques we used and developed to build a sophisticated frontend driven set of webapps. As well as much how we climbed the learning curve of UI frontends and the AWS Amplify backends.
