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I've been impressed by the user-experience, stability etc at Fnac (the French Amazon, if you will). I guess there're a few Fnac devs who hang around here; could anyone give an outline of their tech stack? (I'm not looking for trade secrets, just a high-level summary).

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> Stack technique : C#, ASP.NET, .NET MVC, WebApi Rest, Microservices, .NET Core, HTML, CSS, JS, React JS, Gitlab, Cloud Azure, SQL Server

https://fr.indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=6770fb8220713ce3&from=ser...

The open positions almost never fail to provide a very good overview of a company stack. You can browse the other offers, it’s mostly .NET/sql server and windows server. They also look for the best of the bests to do boring data « science » in Google big query.

A bit surprised to see a windows-based server stack for web services. The world moved on from that nonsense by the mid-2000s, I thought.

Europe is different.

Me too [OP], as a M$H8r since in short trousers, finding that a platform that I like is implemented on a Windows stack challenges long-held prejudices, so, er, thanks?

More of a MS stack than a windows stack. If they are microservices and .net core, they are likely running Linux containers for hosting.

From my experience at a French company, Microsoft is very popular because they provide documentation and support in French.

That might have been the case in the past but nowadays every new server is Linux. MS still has a huge desktop and productivity footprint. Outlook/teams is the default. For my part, I have no choice but to log into my clusters from a Windows VM in some of kind of RDP.

Don't know how reliable this is but you can try "buildwith":

https://builtwith.com/fnac.com

(obviously won't tell much about the server side of things)

Interesting, thanks

A bit off topic: Like Amazon, Fnac.com seems to be drifting towards being a "marketplace" rather than a vendor. (I have only shopped in their brick-and-mortar shops, as a tourist in France, so maybe it has always been like this; I don't know.) Do they have the same issues as Amazon with counterfeit goods?

Counterfeit goods is not so present in France, definitely not on Fnac and neither really an issue on amazon.fr. the issue is more with Chinese drop shipping of the same article with different brand name. You cannot find a thing on amazon.fr, I guess it is the same in the US

I'm not sure how it is in the US, but the simple fact of coming back with a Louis Vuitton bag from a country known for counterfeiting might trigger an investigation from the customs, with confiscation + fine if you wear a counterfeit.

https://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgccrf/Publications/Vie-pratiqu...

Which is especially comical If you've ever wandered through the street markets of Saint-Ouen just outside of Paris - stall after stall of haute couture brand merchandise priced under 10 euros.

> I'm not sure how it is in the US, but the simple fact of coming back with a Louis Vuitton bag from a country known for counterfeiting might trigger an investigation from the customs, with confiscation + fine if you wear a counterfeit.

This is utter nonsense, unless your counterfeit bag is still in packaging and obviously brand new. And even then, no way you’re getting in trouble unless you have a luggage full of them.

Not only are the odds of having your luggage inspected by customs while flying to France nonexistent, the odds of getting trouble during a customs inspection because you have a fake bag in your luggage are also nonexistent.

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