The Data Stack Show 27: Building B2B Marketplaces with Mike Luby from LeafLink
On this week’s episode of The Data Stack Show, Eric and Kostas are joined by Mike Luby, director of engineering at LeafLink. LeafLink is a cannabis industries B2B wholesale marketplace where thousands of brands can manage and track their orders and relationships.
Highlights from this week’s episode include:
- The infrastructure LeafLink provides for the cannabis supply chain and how it deals with compliance issues. (2:03)
- Structuring product management organization to launch high-velocity teams (8:08)
- How it started vs. How it's going (12:00)
- Containerization and leveraging AWS tools for LeafLink's stack (13:19)
- Shifting to an event-driven architecture (24:46)
- Using APIs to provide critical integrations for customers to automate and optimize their businesses (32:47)
- Keeping an eye for the future but building for today (36:56)
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