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by Adrian Luna | April 8, 2026

What Is Answer Engine Optimization for Ecommerce?

AEO is reshaping visibility in ecommerce. Learn what answer engine optimization means for merchants and how to prepare your store for AI-driven discovery.

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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...
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...
Capex Vs Opex Edge Computing
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...
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