Flipkart Open Sourcing Its Technology Platforms E-commerce major Flipkart has open sourced two of its technology platforms - Phantom and HostDB over the past few months, reports The Economic Times. Phantom was released in September this year and is a high performance app proxy for accessing distributed services. It offers the capability to support incoming requests through various protocols and transports and deploy localized business logic. The company says Phantom proxies have been used to serve hundreds of millions of API calls in production deployments at Flipkart and more than 1 billion Thread/Semaphore isolated API and service calls are executed on Phantom on a daily basis. HostDB was released last month and is a tool which helps manage data center inventory and write applications around it. FashionAndYou Adds Wedding Category Online fashion e-commerce venture FashionAndYou has added a new wedding category on its website. Through this, the company claims to offer the best deals and discounts on wedding apparel like sarees, kurtas, maxi dresses, salwar kameez, Indian fusion wear, clutches, jewelry like bangles, wedding churas, gold and diamond rings and pendants, necklaces, earrings and footwear such as sandals and stilettos. It claims to offer products from brands like Brijraj, Forever new, Gitanjali, American Tourister, Carlton London and others with discounts of up to 80%. The company recently underwent a management change with Prashant Shivankutty appointed as the CTO, Rajesh Kaul appointed as supply chain director, Geetu Ahuja as Marketing Director and others. Avirate Fashion Launches Online Store Timex Garments's international high-street fashion brand Aviraté has launched an online fashion store at Aviratefashion.in. The site offers products like dresses,…
