Interview with Subhash Choudhary on Building E-Commerce Cloud Infra for Millions

✅ The CTO of Dukaan discusses his daily routine and responsibilities, including managing a team and troubleshooting technical issues.

💻 He emphasizes the importance of staying up-to-date with technology and continuously learning to stay relevant in the industry.

📈 The CTO talks about the growth of Dukaan, including its expansion into international markets and its focus on customer support.

🏬 The speaker discusses the importance of building a culture of ownership in a fast-moving company.

👥 The speaker shares insights on hiring talented individuals and the signals and intentions they look for.

💻 The speaker talks about their journey from being a support staff to becoming a CTO and their experiences in building websites and earning money through affiliate marketing and SEO.

📈 Successful performance marketing relies on making data-driven decisions and scaling what works.

💻 Started as an SEO-focused agency and mastered the art, leading to success in the industry.

🚀 Expanded services to include software development, automation, and data crawling.

📦 To enable online payments for small businesses, they became the merchant of record without registering the sellers.

💰 Real-time settlement for payments increased online payment adoption from 3% to 35% in a few months.

🌐 By integrating with payment and logistics providers, they expanded their product to reach sellers on platforms like Amazon and Flipkart.

🌍 They designed a distributed storage system to ensure data availability and sync across multiple data centers worldwide.

Cloudflare is working on durable objects and R1, a key-value store.

Edge computing is an evolving technology and companies are developing solutions for it.

Building a distributed data storage system with a central place for writing and independent storage locations.

📦 Delivering packets efficiently using a delivery network and CDNs.

⚡ Challenges with delivering dynamic content and the need for real-time rendering.

💸 Comparison between different cloud function platforms and the importance of local data centers.

🌍 The performance and optimization of the e-commerce cloud infrastructure in different regions.

💻 The limitations of popular e-commerce platforms in tackling the Indian market.

📱 The impact of in-app browsing and low-performance phones on e-commerce user experience in India.

📚 Desktop performance is prioritized over mobile performance due to differences in browsers and hardware.

💼 The hiring strategy at Dukaan is focused on finding people who like to build and learn by doing.

🚀 Dukaan has a fast-paced and efficient work environment, supported by a strong company culture.