The Solidus Blog

My name is Brian Buchalter and I work at Tommy John, a menswear brand that specialises in underwear. I've been working remotely on Rails-based projects for 11 years and on Spree stores for 4 years. I live on a small island in the Caribbean with my family of four.

Announcing Solidus 2.2.0! This release includes better support for non-credit-card payment sources, better promotion creation, and many other great changes.

Solidusconf 2017 Speaker Alex Stoica: I’m Alex, a backend developer at Lost My Name. I’ve worked here for just under three years now, while studying towards my Computer Science degree from King’s College London.

On May 22nd and May 23rd, we're inviting you to the Solidus Conference Center for two days of hacking on the Solidus platform or your own code.

I'm Ryan Moriarty, Head of Business Intelligence at Lost My Name. I joined about 10 months ago to set up the BI team here. My background is exclusively in analytics roles; most recently digital, across a range of industries.

Solidusconf Speaker Eric Saupe: I'm Eric Saupe and I'm a developer at Deseret Book based in Salt Lake City, Utah. I graduated from the University of Utah with a degree in Computer Science. I've been a developer for over seven years and have been using Rails for three.

Hey, I'm Tal Oron, one of the co-founders of Lost My Name. I'm the techy co-founder, now in charge of overall operations. I'm an ex-product manager, product marketer. I hold a BSc in Computer Science and a Masters in Business. I work about 16 hours a day. Mostly with the TV on.

I'm John Hawthorn. I work at Stembolt in Victoria, the only warm place in Canada. I've been using Ruby and Rails since 2009.

My name is Jose Pio. I’ve studied Electronic Engineering and during my career I became more interested in the web world. So now I continue in this area. I'm a Senior/Full Stack Dev at Bitspire. I've been working with Ruby for 6 years now and before I was working mostly with PHP.

There is a buzz around the office as SolidusConf 2017 gets closer. We want to share a little piece of that excitement in the weeks leading up to the conference. That’s why we’ve created a series of speaker interviews that include teasers from their talks, their story, and what motivates them to contribute to solidus. Our series begins with the Master of Ceremonies and speaker, Gregor MacDougall.  #### Please give us a quick introduction for those who don't know you My name is Gregor MacDougall. I work remotely out of Toronto, Canada for Stembolt. I've been working with Spree and Rails for approximately 5 years now and have been a member of the Solidus core team since its founding. #### What do you use Solidus for? Over the years I've worked with a variety of clients selling physical and digital goods; lots of different things. In my daily job, I operate as a developer on a team helping to organize our planning process while also turning out code. #### What is your talk going to be about? My talk is entitled Scaling Solidus: Handling the Traffic of a Successful Business. Over the years, I've worked on a variety of stores, from small businesses happy to sell a few hundred dollars a day to multi-million dollar enterprises. The needs of each of these sites is very different. I want to show how Solidus can be a platform that can serve both of these types of companies adequately. For any successful online business, being able to stay on top of your growth is one of the keys to maintaining that level of growth. If your site is being slow or encountering errors, people are going to be dissatisfied and turn away a potential new customer and advocate of yours. I think every successful business goes through several phases where the business has grown faster than the technology powering it. I plan to review the structure of the stack that we use to power the sites we maintain and look at common signs that you're having performance issues. Additionally, I'll talk about problems that you're likely to encounter in Solidus as you scale and how you can limit their impact on your site. #### What are you most looking forward to at SolidusConf? I look forward to meeting some new people and spending time with friends and coworkers. As someone who works remotely, I don't often get face to face with the people I work with on a daily basis. It's also nice to meet some people in the greater community who I have spoken with in Slack or on Github. #### Do you have any other plans for London? It will be my first time in the UK. I'm probably going to be a bit of a tourist and walk down the Thames for an afternoon. I'm also a big theatre fan, so I'll be escorting some of my coworkers to the West End for a play and a musical. #### Thanks for your time! **SolidusConf 2017 is May 22 - 25 in London, UK. See more details at the [SolidusConf Website](https://conf2017.solidus.io/).**

I'm happy to announce the release of Solidus 2.1.0! An exciting change in this release is taxes are now always fully recalculated on an order.update!. order.create_tax_charge! is no longer required! We hope that this is simpler for developers and should help us better support external tax services in the future.

SolidusConf tickets are now available! Head over to the conference site or let's go on the Eventbrite website to purchase tickets.