by Levent Yaman | Sep 30, 2026 | Engineering Deep Dives
Real-time is a lovely idea. It’s also a fantastic way to: hit rate limits melt APIs and pay for “fast” processing you don’t actually need The classic integration mistake is treating every update as equally urgent. Commerce data has different urgency levels: stock...
by Han Ho | Aug 31, 2026 | Engineering Deep Dives
“Why did this price change?” It’s the most innocent question in commerce ops. It’s also the fastest way to discover how much of your system is held together by vibes. In the classic integration world, the answer is usually: check ERP logs check marketplace logs check...
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 Tuyen Nguyen | Jun 30, 2026 | Engineering Deep Dives
Channel onboarding has a long-standing “classic” workflow: read a wiki page copy credentials into a config file set 14 environment variables run a script discover you missed variable #11 repeat until you achieve enlightenment (or madness) That’s not a rite of passage...
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 Dinh Vo | Apr 30, 2026 | Engineering Deep Dives
A commerce integration is basically a factory line. products enter the line rules, transforms, enrichments happen results leave the line every once in a while something catches fire In the “classic” world, factories get optimized with time studies: where do workers...
