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...
by Nhi Ngo | Mar 31, 2026 | Engineering Deep Dives
You know the classic debugging ritual: Something breaks on a marketplace at 02:00. You open logs. You search for an order ID. You find five different “order IDs” because *everything* uses a different identifier. You start guessing. It’s a proud tradition. It’s also…...
