Ocado Technology is in the process of developing its latest generation of warehouse for the picking and dispatching of grocery products.  Over the past 12 years Ocado Technology has radically evolved its highly automated warehouses, with the latest generation making major advances in its technology. Warehouses are inherently complicated places: actions have knock on implications for the software systems which drive them. This is made vastly more complicated in a grocery environment where there is short shelf life and fragility of products, and where products can be ordered by the customer, before the stock even arrives in the warehouse.  Ocado Technology are world leaders in developing grocery warehouses. We stock a wide range of products, and large volumes, with little waste and very low levels of substitutions (where the product the customer ordered is unavailable, and we offer them an alternative) all as a result of our software systems. 

Here we will present two of the new technologies which we are using and explain why and how we are using them. The Actor Model, using AKKA, and Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS), using a framework which has been developed in-house.  Both of these technologies are being used within our latest warehouse systems and during the sessions we will explain where, why and how we are using these technologies.  The speakers are both Ocado Technology employees who have been heavily involved in the development of the software systems, and will be happy to answer any questions you may have.