“Do you have any more of these? Can you check in the back?”

This customer query has been the bane of retail employees for almost as long as retail shopping has existed. But what was a simple (if annoying) question to answer in the brick-and-mortar era has become quite a challenging one in the digital age.

In this webinar with former Shopify engineer, Yandu Oppacher, we’re going to get into a comparison of the old and new ways to build inventory management systems. The conversation will include:

• Real-world examples of inventory management workload challenges: consistency, scalability, latency.
• Traditional inventory management architecture. Where it thrives and where it breaks down.
• Modern inventory management architecture built on distributed SQL.