by Thien Trinh Duc | Jul 31, 2026 | Engineering Deep Dives
Every team has that one “small script”. You know the one. It starts as: “just normalize some SKUs” Then becomes: “also fix categories” “also map attributes” “also call this API” “also log everything” “also retry but not too much” “also, please don’t break on weekends”...
by Thien Trinh Duc | May 31, 2026 | Engineering Deep Dives
Most “AI features” today fall into one of two categories: A chat widget taped onto the side of a product A content generator that writes… more content Useful sometimes. Rarely operational. Commerce operations are a different beast. They’re messy, time-sensitive, and...
by Thien Trinh Duc | Jul 31, 2025 | Product Updates
The oldest trick in commerce operations is also one of the smartest: Don’t ship boxes one by one when you can ship a pallet. Real-time is great – when you need it. But experienced teams know that many workflows are better when they run in controlled batches:...
by Thien Trinh Duc | Sep 30, 2024 | Product Updates
You’ve probably done this the “classic” way before: a cron job exports data, a script pushes it somewhere, and everyone crosses their fingers that categories arrive before products and nothing hits a rate limit at 02:00 AM. It works… right up until it doesn’t. Modern...
by Thien Trinh Duc | Apr 7, 2023 | Uncategorized
This best-practices article intends for developers interested in creating RESTful Web services that provide high reliability and consistency across multiple service suites; following these guidelines; services are positioned for rapid, widespread, public adoption by...
