We working on a chat functionality in a real estate site between the brokers, dealers and customers, wherein they wanted to share the property videos, images and external links. We were impressed with the slack link unfurling so wanted to implement something similar for our users.

The reason for this post is we wanted to make some part of our application to be served over https. We’re working on a shopping site so wanted the cart and payment sections to be secure. There were few options available and had to make a choice. Here’s the finding.

We were working on making changes in an e-commerce website where we needed to filter products based on the attributes they have, like colour, size, shape etc. In our case we were having products which have multiple attributes and values, so a product can be available in multiple colors in different sizes. Our major concern was how to identify the set of products to display by filtering them based on these multiple attributes.