Interview of Oliver Juhl - CTO of Medusa

Medusa is an open-source headless commerce platform co-founded by Oliver, Seb, and Nicklas, designed to offer developers a flexible and customizable alternative to traditional e-commerce solutions like Shopify. The platform, which decouples the presentation and data layers, allows for enhanced data integrity and developer control over feature development. Medusa is built with Node.js and Express, uses PostgreSQL for its data layer, and is migrating to TypeScript to improve the developer experience. The founders focus on engaging with their community through platforms like Discord, aiming to build a supportive developer network while continuously improving Medusa's core and tooling. Though currently lacking a hosted solution, Medusa plans to introduce one to optimize infrastructure and deployment flows. The platform's origin stems from the founders' experience with a client who required a scalable, multi-regional e-commerce solution, leading them to create a bespoke platform that could evolve with business needs. Medusa values open-source community engagement and prioritizes developer-friendly tools and processes, having shifted from MongoDB to PostgreSQL for greater data consistency.