Running Global Manufacturing on Ruby (among other things)
summary
Teespring runs global short-run manufacturing from a Kentucky facility called Mercury and prints millions of items a year while keeping core business logic in Ruby on Rails. The stack mixes Rails engines, Sidekiq workers like CampaignEnder, Grape + Swagger APIs, a Go mockup service called Van Go, and an Apollo Python floor system. Operational specifics matter: one shirt in eight seconds for screen presses, a campaign model for batching to amortize setup, and Kornit digital printers for profitable small runs.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Teespring and global manufacturing
- 3:37Kentucky manufacturing facility
- 12:05Software challenges with machines
- 13:33Why Ruby and Rails
- 16:26Campaign model and fulfillment
- 21:45Printer assignment and jobs
- 23:30Apollo manufacturing tracking
- 26:41Customer service and returns
- 27:45Software people and processes
- 29:51Q&A on Rails engines
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