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by Adrian Luna | May 9, 2026

What Breaks First When Ecommerce Traffic Doubles in 90 Seconds

AI personalization degrades first. Integration failures are hard to isolate. Autoscale triggers are too slow. Here's what we've seen across real peak events.

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by Andrew Humber | October 1, 2020

Is Your Storefront Battle-Ready for Black Friday...

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 retailers...
by ANAND HARIHARAN | September 16, 2020

The Largest M1 Breach to Date –...

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 Connect" section of Magento,...
by Andrew Humber | September 9, 2020

Part 1: The Challenges of Hosting a...

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 Webscale. In Part 1, we’ll...
by MICHAEL GIBSON | September 9, 2020

What is the Webscale Control Plane?

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 from the data plane, and...
by MICHAEL GIBSON | September 9, 2020

What is the Webscale Data Plane?

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 features and capabilities...
by SONAL | September 3, 2020

3 Reasons You Need to Move Off...

When it comes to choosing a hosting provider for your ecommerce storefront, Rackspace is about as far from being the right choice as possible. There, we said it. So why...
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,...
Data Science Edge Computing
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...
Securing Edge Network
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...
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