This presentation by Tapcart at Druid Summit detailed how Tapcart, a mobile app-building platform for Shopify merchants, transitioned to using Druid (via Imply’s Polaris) for their customer-facing analytics product, Insights Pro. The product supports thousands of Shopify merchants and millions of app users who need real-time analytics for metrics like revenue, customer behavior, and engagement.
Speaker:
Andrew Li, Senior Software Engineer, Tapcart
[Timestamp] Table of Contents:
[0:00] About Tapcart
[2:40] Analytics Product: Insights Pro
[5:40] How We Got Here
[6:03] Technical Requirements
[9:15] Building Insights Pro
[13:16] Architecture Visualization
[15:32] Issues with Chosen Solution
[17:45] Journey to Apache Druid & Imply Polaris
[18:30] Introducing Druid
[20:15] Imply Polaris
[22:23] Learnings & Improvements
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