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by Adrian Luna | April 3, 2026

First-Party Data in Ecommerce: Beyond Third-Party Tags

Third-party tags are unreliable, incomplete, and invisible to AI. Learn why first-party data is now the foundation of ecommerce growth and how to build it.

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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...
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...
by Andrew Humber | March 20, 2020

9 Top Ecommerce Developers Comment on Magento...

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 that after June 2020,...
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