Flipkart

Partnership with local book vendors Around 3.5 million books Flipkart is rigorously working to make its coverage as wide as possible.

DCs - Delhi and Bangalore Future plans (DCs) - Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata Explore book retail - Regional language books Improve services delivery.

Focus on Scaling backend of website.

Technical Architecture

Use of popular Open source technologies such as Ubuntu, Mysql, Apache and PHP

Technology Teams

Website Analytics ERP Platform

Website

At the website team, just some of the interesting challenges that are worked upon:

User Experience - Smoothest online shopping experience Scalability Increase in Traffic matched by the scalable design Availability 99% uptime Relevancy Be it search or recommendations Data mining - search, recommendations, user analytics etc. Security Information Security Social interaction Use innovative techniques to leverage group behaviour in online shopping

Use of Open Source Technologies

Analytics

Flipkart is growing by leaps and bounds. The Analytics team works to develop deep functional understanding of various production processes, underlying information systems and the data they capture. Systems to present various of views of the operational data to business owners and decision makers. Some of the current projects where Analytics team had a measurable impact are inventory prediction and delivery performance. Data Warehousing, Data mining, Predictive Analytics

ERP

ERP fulfilment can be broadly categorized as: Order Life-Cycle Management Procurement Warehouse Management Inventory Prediction & Planning Logistics: Flipkart Self-delivery, Accounting and Customer Support

Platform

The Platform team is focused on empowering the business units with solutions that help support the present and future developments. This is achieved through the development of in-house platform components, infrastructures and environments that other teams can ride on and which help glue the different moving parts within Flipkart together. Leverage technology eases the work of all other business centric teams within the organization so that they can maintain their focus on best serving the needs of the customers and hence the business. Teams working in the below areas Distributed computing, Cloud services Scalable data stores (schema and schema-less) and service frameworks domains that influence the Flipkart architecture. Establish best practices to drive quality. The three core tenets that the team lives by: Quality, Innovation and Efficient Execution.

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