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by Daniel Bartholomew | June 26, 2023

Scaling Horizontally vs. Scaling Vertically

Capacity planning is a challenge that every engineering team faces when it comes to ensuring the right resources are in place to handle expected (and unexpected) traffic demands. When demand...

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by PAUL BRISCOE | January 11, 2022

3 Ways to Write Better Caching Modules...

Paul Briscoe is Director of Development at Human Element In today’s marketplace, online merchants are focused on the speed of their website as a key indicator for how they will...
by Jose Kunnappally | December 20, 2021

Key Takeaways From 2021 Cyber Week

This year, consumers began their holiday shopping early, as early as October in some cases, concerned about the supply chain-related challenges that are plaguing almost every industry. Despite Black Friday...
by Jose Kunnappally | December 13, 2021

5 Ecommerce Security Trends to Watch Out...

Over the past year, the ecommerce sector has seen a surge in sales. Owing to the pandemic, ecommerce platforms have embraced the digital journey of millions of consumers to drive...
by Daniel Bartholomew | November 22, 2021

Top Considerations for Containers at the Edge

Some things are just made to go together, like containers and edge computing. Containers package an application such that the software and its dependencies (libraries, binaries, config files, etc.) are isolated...
by TYLER MULLEN | November 19, 2021

Top 3 ecommerce frauds and how to...

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 hosts. It’s...
by MAX HENRY | November 10, 2021

Monitoring your sales funnel and site operations...

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. These breadcrumbs are incredibly...
by SONAL | November 3, 2021

Taming Core Web Vitals in Time for...

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 advocated for website speed...
by RITISH RAGHAVAN | October 12, 2021

The Webscale Portal – an Ecommerce Merchant’s...

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 break records, once again,...
by Martin Pachol | September 28, 2021

Predicting Your Hosting Cost Per Order

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 hosting is enough?...
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