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+title: Centarro and Drupal Commerce with Ryan Szrama
+date: 2024-03-03
+permalink: /archive/2024/03/03/centarro-and-drupal-commerce-with-ryan-szrama
+tags:
+    - software-development
+    - drupal
+    - drupal-commerce
+    - podcast
+cta: d7eol
+snippet: |
+    This week on Beyond Blocks, Oliver is joined by Ryan Szrama, CEO of Centarro.
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+This week on Beyond Blocks, I'mj oined by Ryan Szrama, CEO of Centarro, to discuss Drupal Commerce, Commerce Kickstart, Mario Kart and the dreaded `cache_form` table.
+
+[Listen to the episode now][episode].
+
+## Key points
+
+- eCommerce, Ubercart and Drupal Commerce.
+- How Commerce Guys started.
+- How Ryan started in the eCommerce space.
+- The origins of Drupal Commerce and Commerce Guys.
+- Commerce Kickstart.
+
+## Quotes
+
+- The best code isn't the most novel or most compact, it's the most easily readable and easily extendable (RS).
+- My only resource for learning PHP was php.net (RS)
+- I'm a self-taught Developer or community-taught, I suppose (OD).
+- Porting osCommerce into Drupal, which became Ubercart (RS).
+- Do we do this in Ubercart and Drupal 6 that we know works, or this new thing that was Drupal Commerce in Drupal 7 (OD).
+- It was built in Ubercart and was in production until quite recently, considering we're in 2024 (OD).
+- Once you get thoroughly entrenched in a platform, the cost to re-platform outweighs the cost of maintaining it in-house (RS).
+- If there's 10,000 of anybody, they're going to want to pay for support (RS).
+- How do we convince them to invest in an upgrade that doesn't see them jettison Drupal entirely? (RS)
+- One thing I like about Drupal Commerce is its flexibility. (OD)
+- It doesn't need to be a t-shirt or book shop. You can do some outside the box things with it. (OD)
+- Being a native extension of Drupal has a lot more advantages and pros than cons. (RS)
+- Ubercart was more "batteries included" and "this is what it does", whereas Drupal Commerce is more flexible and although it requires a bit more setup to begin with, you can plug it together the way you want to. (OD)
+- Our vision was to go the next step of getting off the Drupal island. (RS)
+- The Commerce Addressing library is now over 17,000,000 downloads. (OD)
+- Composer allowed us to separate our projects and separate our concerns. (RS)
+- Do you know when you should not use Views and when you decouple that component and use JavaScript and the REST API? (RS)
+- If we can reduce the number of times introduce those kinds of problems, that's how I would certify somebody. (RS)
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+[episode]: {{site.url}}/podcast/13-ryan-szrama-centarro