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Development Unit

Rakuten Global Technology Strategy

2010/10/16

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Yoshioka

Title: Technical Director

Mission: Lead the technical direction of

Rakuten – Improve software development productivity

(introducing Agile software development) and

reduce cost.

– Build Scalable computer

– Build developers community in Rakuten and

promote OSS strategy

Joined Rakuten since August 2009,

before it, he was a founding member

and CTO of Miracle linux since 2010.

More than 25 years experience in the IT.

OSS activist

twitter @hyoshiok

DEBUG HACKS (in Japanese),

O’reilly Japan

Hirotaka Yoshitaka

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Federation Technical Meeting

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Many challenges

Great technology can integrate us.

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Introduction

- Goals of this meeting -

• Generate synergy through the entire Rakuten group by exchanging

best practices each other.

• How to realize it from technical and system aspects?

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Own Development Center

M&A companies

Global Development

How to generate

synergy?

Discuss at

“Federation Technical

Meeting”

Japan China

Taiwan

PriceMinister

Buy.com LS

FreeCause TARAD

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Our team – contributors (random order)

Rohinee

Tazawa Nakasone

Yoshioka

Naojiro

Hisada Kaoru

Tanaka

Hayase

Masaya Mori

Masao

Arai

Chida

Katsutoshi

Shiotani

Terje

Satoshi

Sekine James

Kiran

Thomas Sathya

Justin

Ziegler

Frank

Fernandes

Osada

Pom

Parathan

Phuwadon

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Introduction

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Justin Ziegler

Title: CIO & CTO of PriceMinister

Mission: define and implement IT strategy of

PriceMinister.com

– Global functional roadmap

– Software architecture roadmap

– Support growth of users and data

– Implement new lines of revenue

– Optimize existing revenue

Cofounder of PriceMinister in 2000

CTO of profile4u in 1999

Cofounder of first French internet payment

system in 1995

Board member of a French CIO club

Member of the jury of Ecommerce awards

Justin Ziegler

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PriceMinister

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What is PriceMinister.com

C2C & B2C market place

Barcodes and catalogues in our DNA

Listing products is free and efficient

Main categories : books, cd, dvd, vidéo

games, computing HW, clothing…

Very little customization in shops

PriceMinister is an escrow & provides a

garantie to buyers and sellers

Main revenue comes from transactions

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What is PriceMinister.com

Founded in 2000

Now one of the largest e-commerce sites

in France

Made a few acquisitions in 2008 :

voyagermoinscher.com travel price

comparison site

avendrealouer.fr real-estate site

Emailing company

200 employees

Main business deployed in 3 countries

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Pawoot Pongvitayapanu

Pawoot (Pom)

Pongvithayapanu

• Pom – Pawoot Pongvitayapanu (Please do not try to pronounce my surname)

• Managing Director & Founder

TARAD.com (Thailand)

• We will make Thailand E-Commerce

Revolution

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TARAD.com

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Case study of Group company

- TARAD Dot Com -

Company profile

•Employee’s head count: 80

•date of foundation: 1999

•Business style: B to B to C

Name of Company TARAD Dot Com

Management point

of focus

Increase Revenue Company & Merchant

Optimize Operation Flow

Maximize Marketing Efficiency

R&D of new technology

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Case study of Group company

- TARAD Dot Com -

Hot topic (of development methodology and environment)

• LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP

• License Cost = Zero

• Example : Facebook, Yahoo

• Technology Utilized in TARAD

• OS: CentOS/Ubuntu

• DB: MySQL

• NoSQL: Redis, Memcached [Future trend: MongoDB]

• Web: Apache, Nginx

• Storage: MogileFS, GlusterFS, [+Netapp]

• Caching : Varnish

• Search: Migrating from Sphinx to Solr

• Other Tools: Gearman, Zabbix, Jmeter, SVN,

• API and Social Network Connectivity

• TARAD.com on AR technology (Layar Application)

• Linked with Facebook and twitter (Gain Traffic and GMS) URL : http://apps.facebook.com/taraddotcom/