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Before we apply elements of implementing observability measures for ecommerce businesses, we need to understand what general observability is.   What is...

You can’t fix what you don’t see Data path observability is the ability to see and understand the data flow from the originating request source, to the...

In ecommerce, Managed Hosting is a building block, not a solution With U.S. ecommerce sales in 2022 exceeding $1 trillion, it is safe to say that ecommerce is...

Cache warming is a concept which is used to optimize the performance of a website or web application by preloading the cache with frequently accessed content....

If you’re reading this, Webscale is officially an Adobe Exchange Partner at the Accelerate level. Of course, this is big news for Webscale but arguably bigger...

In 2021, legal cannabis sales (medical and adult-use) across 39 states and the District of Columbia ($24.5 to $27 billion) overshadowed Starbucks ($20.5...

Webscale is a big supporter of going headless, taking your monolithic server application like Magento or WordPress offline and using it to generate a static...

Webscale is a big supporter of going headless, turning your monolithic server application like Magento or WordPress into a data source for a “simpler”...

Everyone has a view on what this year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday will look like. Though more and more consumers have shopped early in the past few years due...

Many cannabis brands joined the ecommerce bandwagon during the pandemic to ensure their offerings were accessible to customers and patients. The biggest...

Andrew Bouchard is the Head of Business Development at Ziffity Solutions LLC. Magento is a fully-loaded platform that offers all the essential and advanced...

We’ll be providing handy tips, tricks, and integrations for Magento now and then in this blog and it’s nice to have a clean, no-risk local environment where...

Webscale has earned SOC 2 Type 2 compliance certification. That's actually a big deal. In simple terms it means a rigorous and respected third party audit has...

Webscale is partnering with Vue Storefront to add their solution for composable, headless content and commerce experiences to our pre-configured and tested...

Andreas Knoor is the Chief Product Officer of Crownpeak. This blog first appeared on the Crownpeak website. In September 2021, Crownpeak announced a strategic...

According to industry reports, more than half of all cyberattacks on ecommerce websites in 2021 were carried out by bots, including sophisticated bad bots...

In this article, I will walk you through the step-by-step process of diagnosing an increase in the average time to first byte (TTFB) for an application...

“They’re quite helpful,” declared Steve Parris, Vice President of IT for IT’Sugar, a national confectionery retailer, when asked about Webscale. “They really...

Since 2012, ViewSonic has hosted its ecommerce solution on Magento, now owned by Adobe. Viewsonic is a leading provider of monitors, displays, and projection...

One of the biggest reasons Magento stores prefer cloud-based hosting is the idea that the store can easily scale up during periods of heavy traffic, such as...

It’s no secret that speed counts in today’s Internet. Google has made it quite clear that the faster web pages render, the better it is for a website’s...

This year, consumers began their holiday shopping early, as early as October in some cases, concerned about the supply chain-related challenges that are...

Tyler Mullen is director of marketing at Kensium. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once said: “We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the...

Every time a shopper accesses your site, they leave a trail of breadcrumbs detailing their path through your store and their user experience along the way....

This article was originally published on the Magento Association website as a Commerce Co-op blog on October 20, 2021. For more than a decade, Google has...

Ecommerce sales worldwide touched $4.28 trillion in 2020 and are projected to grow to $5.4 trillion by 2022. With the upcoming holiday shopping season set to...

Do you know what your hosting is costing you for each sale? When planning for hosting, merchants and developers are often left with a conundrum: how much...

Consumers have become disloyal, so delivering a great user experience is key to securing their continued attention. As a result, the world of modern commerce...

David Baier, Managing Partner, of leading digital agency Crimson Agility recently joined me for a podcast to discuss security at the edge and technology...

Graham Van Der Linde is Head of Brand and Creative at Eclipse UK For years we’ve been told that picking the right platform to build our website on was the...

Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a passive monitoring methodology that captures all end user interactions with a website or application. While RUM has been...

At the recent Magento Association (MA) Connect 2021 event, Webscale’s Head of Strategic Partnerships, Adrian Luna, presented a session on Magento Security at...

Without a doubt, 2020 will likely be remembered for so many reasons that they could end up rivalling the length of your average CVS receipt. It was the year...

Speed optimization and page performance are critical for driving a seamless customer experience, and the ability to accurately measure these elements is...

Webscale’s Head of Strategic Partnerships, Adrian Luna, recently got chatting with Frank Thomson, VP of Marketing and Sales at leading ecommerce agency...

Hard to believe it’s been almost a year since M1 went EOL. I don’t think last year qualifies for the statement of “time flies when you’re having fun”, but...

Encompassing a far broader range of touchpoints and interactions throughout the entire consumer journey than ever before, the era of modern commerce seeks to...

Last year, Google announced that the user experience signal fed into its search ranking algorithm is undergoing an update, initially for mobile and, shortly...

During the last year of the pandemic, many people have been working remotely, or on the road. In well managed environments this creates some support issues,...

Charles Martey is the Systems Integration Director at Above The Fray. Cybercrimes are on the rise and like all ecommerce platforms, Magento websites are a...

In conventional medicine, your pulse can help reveal a lot of underlying problems. In the same way, if there is a single metric that is measured and tracked...

Yaroslav Rogoza is the Chief Technical Officer of Atwix and one of its first employees. Over the past few years, PWA and headless have proven to be some of...

Webscale recently announced the closing of $26 million in growth capital financing from investors and Silicon Valley Bank. The Series C round was led by BGV,...

Leading digital agency in the UK, Eclipse recently joined us for a webinar to discuss ecommerce success strategies for 2021. From Eclipse, Tim Stainthorpe,...

Brent Peterson is President and Co-founder of Wagento Commerce. Although Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) were first introduced by Google back in 2015 as a...

In 2020, as the global ecommerce industry witnessed a decade’s worth of growth in a matter of months, so did the threat of cyber attack on those same...

2020 was a rollercoaster year to say the very least. Yet, with enormous challenges come opportunity and fortunately for Webscale, with its laser focus on the...

Luigi Iuliano, CTO at Corra, and Jay Smith, Founder and CTO at Webscale, recently caught up for a livestream to discuss the hot topic of Progressive Web Apps...

Increasingly, ecommerce market leaders are focusing on enriching user experiences across a wide variety of buyer endpoints such as voice-enabled shopping...

Despite a challenging year, the 2020 Cyber Week broke records with consumers spending $9.03 billion on Black Friday, and $10.8 billion on Cyber Monday. While...

Today’s modern web applications have many components - shopping carts, blog posts, product lists, user reviews, and more. The traditional method of hosting...

One of the best ways to improve the performance of a web application is to enable caching. The most commonly used caching method stores copies of static files...

The quality, and related success, of your online presence can all hinge on the agency or system integrator (SI) you choose to work with. However, the search...

The following conversation took place on the eCommerce-Aholic channel, between the show’s host TJ Gamble, CEO of Jamersan, and Jay Smith, Founder and CTO of...

Everyone has an opinion on what this year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday will look like. We shared a blog back in August that looked at what some of the biggest...

Last weekend, there was a Magento 1 security breach that impacted more than 2000 storefronts, and that number could be higher. The attack used the "Magento...

The following conversation took place on the eCommerce-Aholic channel, between the show’s host TJ Gamble, CEO of Jamersan, and Jay Smith, Founder and CTO of...

If the Webscale Data Plane is the heart of your application then the Webscale Control Plane is the brain. Webscale’s distributed control plane is decoupled...

Welcome to Tech Corner! In this new section of the blog, we’ll be sharing some of our more technical content, including explainer blogs on some of the...

Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Kohls are among the first to make the big announcements that they will not be opening stores on Black Friday due to the COVID-19...

I’ll confess to saying that whenever I hear the term “headless ecommerce”, I think of Nearly Headless Nick. But it turns out that headless ecommerce has...

Last Updated On: August 3, 2021 UPDATE: 2021 is a new year, but it’s the same story - Paypal has sent new communications to merchants on Magento 1 (M1)...

Last Updated On: August 3, 2021 Human beings are a resilient lot. We have an innate ability to weather a storm, and find ways to not only survive, but thrive....

Last Updated On: August 3, 2021 UPDATE: Fast forward to today - it’s now been over a year since Magento 1 (M1) went end of life (EOL). PCI compliance requires...

With Magento 1’s end-of-life (EOL) less than 60 days away, the race is on for merchants still on M1 to find a way to stay there, re-platform to M2, or migrate...

With Magento 1’s end-of-life (EOL) coming up in less than three months, a lot of ecommerce merchants seem both confused and concerned. And rightly so, given...

The Cyber Weekend of last year was the biggest one ever in U.S. ecommerce history, with online shopping spend increasing to more than $9.4 billion on Cyber...

This article was originally published in Digital Commerce 360 on Feb 17, 2020. The Cyber Weekend in 2019 was, undoubtedly, the biggest one ever in U.S....

The last decade has been a spectacular one for e-commerce. Global e-commerce revenues grew more than 500% between 2010 and 2019. Amazon continues to have the...

With Magento 1’s end-of-life coming up, it might seem like everyone is scrambling for cover. And understandably so, given the fact that after June 2020,...

In 1998, Event Network launched a store for the Titanic Artifact Exhibition in Boston. Today, the company is a leading operator of experiential retail stores...

Black Friday and Cyber Weekend are upon us! According to projections from Digital Commerce 360 (formerly Internet Retailer), U.S. shoppers are set to spend a...

Magento 2.2 is the new Magento 1! Come December 31, 2019, Magento 2.2.x will end of life (EOL) and thousands of merchants will likely be stuck without access...

The decision to re-platform, from one e-commerce platform to another, is never easy, fast, or cheap. In this blog, we’ll share our experiences from...

If you’re in the e-commerce business, you already know that the time to start preparing your online storefront for the upcoming holidays was yesterday! With...

Since 1976, Skate One has manufactured and distributed high-performance skateboard decks, wheels, bearings, trucks, hardware, clothing, and accessories. They...

Skinit is the global leader in personalized and branded products for electronic devices. The company creates high quality cases and skins to protect...

Dolls Kill, a leading global online fashion retailer, celebrates a rebellious spirit and attitude, mixed with a bit of punk rock, goth, glam, and festival...

HYLETE is a direct-to-consumer brand that creates premium performance athletic apparel – built for the modern athlete and priced for everyday use. What...

June 2020 - for many online merchants and Magento developers, it's a date that's already burned into memory. Magento 1 will end of life and with that, no...

Since the advent of digital commerce, hackers have kept both online merchants and the cybersecurity industry on their toes. Large security breaches occur...

And how are they used to calculate billing? As a Webscale Stratus customer, you know that your monthly billing is a calculation of Plan Rate plus any overage...

Despite its arrival over a decade ago, many digital commerce businesses continue to struggle with finding success in the cloud. Organizations often set...

On June 4, 2019, we saw the news about Distil networks, a point solutions company offering bot management, being acquired by Imperva, a security platform....

This is a three-part blog series. This part discusses the reliability of cloud-based hosting, scalability, the need for outsourcing, tips for cloud migration,...

This is a three-part blog series. This part covers why retailers and commerce brands embrace the cloud, the reality of cloud hosting providers, and why...

This is a three-part blog series. In Part 1, we introduce Webscale, how we work with hyperscale cloud providers, and discuss the challenges commerce brands...

15 years ago, a typical website’s infrastructure looked pretty simple. But a lot has changed, and hosting architectures today are continuing to increase in...

It’s a look I see all the time. The “so… you guys are just another hosting provider?” look. However, it’s a look that I enjoy watching fade away once I...

Last week, we announced our Series B round of funding at $14 million. We’ve come a long way as a team, we’ve learned a lot, and it’s a good time to take stock...

The time to move to the cloud was yesterday! Tired of being shackled by the physical infrastructure-defined limitations of dedicated hosting environments...

With the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones set to premiere on Sunday, true fans can’t help but get a bit swept up in it all. As the fight for the...

This article was originally published in TotalRetail on March 21, 2019. According to Webscale’s recent State of E-Commerce Infrastructure report, 6.4 percent...

The holiday shopping season last year broke all records in terms of e-commerce revenues. Yet, online stores remained plagued with performance, availability,...

Picture this. You’ve spent weeks preparing for a massive online sale. Your products are priced right. Your social media influencers are primed and ready to...

One of the most enjoyable parts of my job is talking live to merchants, and hearing about their challenges first hand. We learn a lot in the process, often...

This article was originally published in Internet Retailer on Feb 7, 2019. Consumers spend billions of dollars online between October 1 and December 31,...

Despite the arrival of the cloud over a decade ago, e-commerce infrastructure (especially in the mid-market) continues to struggle with the physical hardware...

The holiday shopping season of 2018 set new sales records globally for the e-commerce industry. Cyber Monday in the US alone generated close to $7.9 billion...

The e-commerce space is continuing its relentless growth. It is a segment that has made such irrevocable change to consumer buying habits that it is hard to...

While a lot of merchants saw solid growth this year, the all-too-familiar downtime, performance, and bot/cyber-threat challenges continued to plague many....

A lot has been going on in the e-commerce industry over the last six months. We’re in the middle of an exciting Holiday Season, the largest ever in terms of...

According to Internet Retailer magazine, Thanksgiving weekend was the largest online shopping weekend ever. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24-25, generated $6.4...

Magento recently confirmed that their e-commerce platform suffered a massive malware attack that impacted about 5,000 Magento Open Source users. According to...

When Google CEO Sundar Pichai demonstrated the company’s AI-powered Google Assistant’s capabilities earlier this year, we all watched in awe as a highly...

Looking for 100% uptime during the upcoming Holiday Season? For three years in a row, Webscale’s customers have experienced flawless Black Fridays and Cyber...

Massive global events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday trigger pure online shopping mayhem. According to Forbes, online sales during Black Friday and Cyber...

Some last-minute tax filers got a break last week, courtesy of the IRS website. Despite the tax filing date being extended two days, the IRS had to extend the...

“Your call is important to us. Please hold” If I had a penny for every time I’ve heard those words during a phone call to a service provider (mobile operator,...

I’m excited to announce our new partnership with value added distributor, REAL security, covering Southeast Europe. When we first met with them, it was clear...

Now we are into the New Year, I’ve had some time to reflect on 2017 and our customers’ experiences, especially on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and through the...

Webscale has a 100% uptime record for 2016 across our entire customer base. In an effort to support our customers through another amazing season for 2017, we...

Event Network knew something was up when they noticed an increase in DDoS attacks in June 2015. In the run up to Black Friday, that same year, they...

Cyber attacks increased 22% over Black Friday weekend in 2016. Phishing links are also expected to go up as much as 336% around Thanksgiving, making consumers...

This blog originally appeared on the website of Benhamou Global Ventures, one of Webscale's key investors. We have a saying at Webscale – “Deliver, no matter...

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced its worst outage in history last week, going down for four hours, and crippling nearly 150,000 websites. The cause –...

This blog originally appeared on the website of Benhamou Global Ventures, one of Webscale's key investors. In part II of a three part blog on cloud computing...

Convergence in the cloud brings together advancements not just in compute, storage and networks, but in software and services that together serve the broader...

As fast as things change in Silicon Valley, one constant over the years is the measurement for a young company’s success:  momentum, profitability and a...

While most people were sleeping off their turkey-induced food comas and spending time with family and friends over the long weekend, Webscale’s support team...

I generally have zero tolerance for slow web page load times – I mean don’t we all? But regardless of how content-rich your website may be, there are some...

I couldn’t be more thrilled to share the news that we have secured $12M in funding. This new investment validates our market opportunity and supports our...

Welcome back! When an end user out in the real world points their browser to your website, the next 1-3 seconds are crucial. According to research, 40% of...

Welcome to the new Webscale blog. I'm Sonal Puri, CEO of Webscale, and I'm passionate about technology startups. In particular, I’m passionate about the...

Hi! I’m Jay, co-founder and CTO of Webscale---welcome to the CTO Corner. As someone that’s lived and breathed Webscale for the last four years, I’m pretty...