During 2016 our “The Irish Store” team has been focused on our eCommerce website relaunch based on the Magento 2 project. There were different decisions made for development of new functionality and porting existing ones and hitting target release date. In this presentation you will hear a lot about how we achieved the milestone. I will also share lessons learned for future Magento 2 projects.

2. About Me
• CTO at TheIrishStore &
GiftsDirect
• Former core Magento member
• 7+ Magento Experience
• Founder of Pronko Consulting
• Magento 2 Blog & The Devletter
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3. Agenda
• Ups of real Magento 2 project
• Downs of real Magento 2 project
• Assumptions
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5. The Irish Store
• Irish Gifts for USA market
• Seasonal business
• Launched: 2013
• Catalog: 4k products, 500 categories
• Magento 1.9
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6. New The Irish Store
Website
• Improve customer experience via all touch points:
• packaging
• emails
• website
• tone of voice
• brand
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7. Project Plan
• Dates: January - August 2016
• Requirements
• Development
• Infrastructure
• Testing (UX, QA, Performance, Security)
• Live
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8. Magento 2 Development
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9. Development
• Scrum - 3 devs, 2 QA, 1 BA, 1 FD
• 10 sprints - 2 weeks
• Sprint planning
• Retrospectives
• Daily Stand ups
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10. Data Migration Tool
• Decided to import manually since we have had
more tables/columns to exclude than include
• Requires more improvements
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11. 3rd party modules
• 12 Modules - internal QA failed
• 1 module: Realex Payments
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12. Infrastructure
• Multi availability
• 99.9% uptime
• 3 seconds page load time
• < 300 orders per day
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13. Infrastructure
ELB ELBVarnish
Frontend
Frontend
Backend
Route53
CDN S3
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ELB

14. Tools we use
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15. Assumptions

16. Magento 2 major releases
will be every 3 months
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17. Performance testing
should be concentrated
on number of orders
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18. We have enough time to
fix bugs reported during
QA phase
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19. More features in Magento
2, Merchant will learn how
to use it
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20. We have enough time
for performance fixes
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21. Infrastructure can be
delivered after development
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22. Q&A
Thank You
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