Episode 83

Baerskin: From chaos to composable: Inside Baerskin's tactical rebuild

Gus Fune
Gus Fune
Chief Technology Officer

In this episode we talked about:

  • How to rebuild ecommerce infrastructure fast (and avoid re-platforming pitfalls)
  • Why developer experience is critical to executing marketing ideas
  • The real cost of failed third-party platforms, and what to do next
  • Why composable systems help prevent total outages
  • How to think about AI for internal tooling vs. frontend optimization
  • Lessons in data alignment between marketing, product, and engineering

Episode highlights:

[01:53] The failed platform switch and a chaotic legacy system

[04:45] Rebuilding the ecommerce stack in just 3 months

[06:12] Managing 40+ microservices with a lean team

[11:43] Experimentation culture: 70% of tests fail, and that’s okay

[15:18] Using AI to push code and automate workflows

[17:56] Advice for ecommerce teams stuck on legacy systems

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