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by Adrian Luna | December 16, 2025
Why Traditional Analytics Fail Engineering Teams
Commerce platforms generate a constant stream of data, but most of the tools that collect it were built for reporting, rather than engineering work. These tools show trends at a...
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by Andrew Humber | August 3, 2020
Black Friday 2020 – What Should Merchants...
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 pandemic,...

by Daniel Bartholomew | July 10, 2020
Creating the Mutual Funds of Edge Computing
At Section, we are working to leverage data science and machine learning methods to create the mutual funds of edge computing. In finance, Modern Portfolio Theory revolutionized investment practices by providing an analytical...

by Daniel Bartholomew | July 1, 2020
Securing a Distributed Edge Network
Security for edge computing is ipso facto a large and complicated topic. In our previous post, we looked at challenges specific to security at the edge. In this one, we’ll take a...

by Andrew Humber | June 4, 2020
Why Going Headless Doesn’t Have to Mean...
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 nothing to do with...

by Andrew Humber | May 15, 2020
Magento 1 EOL: What Visa and PayPal...
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) warning...

by Daniel Bartholomew | April 23, 2020
Comparing OpEx vs. CapEx Models at the...
When Akamai was founded in 1998, co-founders Daniel M. Lewin and Tom Leighton, were not only inventing the first content delivery network (CDN), but also creating an early prototype for edge...

by MIKE GUGLIELMI | April 20, 2020
COVID-19 Has Transformed Ecommerce in These Five...
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....

by SONAL | April 9, 2020
Magento 1 EOL Support – You Have...
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...

by Andrew Humber | April 3, 2020
6 Top E-Commerce Developers Share Recommendations on...
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...
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