RE: E-commerce Architecture

One idea that will really speed things up is having your CGI program write
the data to a data queue, then have a batch job running in the background to
accept info and bill.  Same process, but you have more control.  And it will
speed up your web pages.

Brad


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joel Fritz [mailto:JFritz@sharperimage.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 2:24 PM
> To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> Subject: RE: E-commerce Architecture
> 
> 
> We process orders (from all sources) in batch as many times a 
> day as we need
> to, so we do have an  opportunity to massage the data.  On 
> line orders come
> in as ASCII flat files.  The mail order business tends to 
> lend itself to
> this approach since physically filling orders is kind of a 
> batch process
> anyway.  During December we took orders through 12/22 for 
> Christmas Eve
> delivery, so it worked fairly well.  
> 
> I'm sure that doing it all in real time could be a real 
> adventure, and we're
> going to be finding more about that this year when we try to 
> synch up our
> web site more closely with production data.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stone, Brad V (TC) [mailto:bvstone@taylorcorp.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2000 11:26 AM
> > To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
> > Subject: RE: E-commerce Architecture
> > 
> > 
> > Joel.
> > 
> > While I agree with you while we speak of pure AS/400 
> > deployment, I don't
> > agree with the original question since the outsourcing will 
> > no doubt take
> > place on a PC with an SQL DB running cold fusion.  There is 
> > no easy way to
> > integrate that.
> > 
> > Which is why I suggest sticking with the things that you are 
> > familiar with,
> > and learning what else the AS/400 can do for you (ie web serving).
> > 
> > I have too many examples of projects that went bad to believe 
> > anything else.
> > 
> > Brad
> > 
> > 
> > 
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