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How to Solve GraphQL Latency Challenges by Deploying Closer to Your Users
by Adrian Luna | Jan 23, 2024
GraphQL is a widely adopted alternative to REST APIs because of the many benefits that it offers, including performance, efficiency, and predictability. While the advantages are significant, many developers become frustrated with latency challenges when implementing...
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Ecommerce Holiday Shopping 2022: What to Expect and How to Prepare?
This year will mark a critical U.S. retail milestone, as ecommerce will cross the $1 trillion mark for the first time, according to the latest retail forecast from Insider Intelligence. We now expect total U.S. retail spending in 2022 to grow by 6.4% year over year to...
The Global Ecommerce Security Report 2022
Cyberattacks continued to rise in 2021 even though ecommerce sales saw a minor dip compared to 2020. According to industry reports, more than half of all cyberattacks on ecommerce websites in 2021 were carried out by bots, including sophisticated bad bots that can...
How a CDN can boost your Core Web Vitals
Ecommerce merchants are always looking for ways to improve their site’s performance. Slow website pages can harm businesses as they increase bounce rates and can negatively impact customer satisfaction. Beyond this, poor performance can also impact end-user retention,...
3 Ways to Write Better Caching Modules in Magento
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 perform. Outside of actual sales revenue, page speed can be the ultimate measure of success...
5 Ecommerce Security Trends to Watch Out for in 2022
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 growth, revenue, and customer engagement. According to a report by UNCTAD, online sales...
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Headless Commerce Drives Edge Computing Adoption
by Adrian Luna | Jan 23, 2024
In e-commerce today, the challenge to meet and exceed customer expectations is driving innovation. The demand for frictionless shopping, 24/7 availability,...
The Complexities of Building and Operating Edge Networks and Infrastructure
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jan 5, 2024
This is the final post in a three-part series digging into the complexities that developers and operations engineers face when building, managing, and scaling...
What’s the difference between multi-cloud, multi-location cloud and supercloud?
by Adrian Luna | Jan 3, 2024
As cloud computing continues to evolve, businesses have access to more options than ever before. Two popular cloud strategies are multi-cloud and...
Redefining Distributed Applications with CloudFlow: Dynamic Endpoint Automation, Cloud Cost Control, and Operational Simplicity
by Daniel Bartholomew | Oct 19, 2023
“Optimization happens constantly, automatically, and transparently to the operations teams and the end users.” Traditionally we have hosted applications in...
Supercharging LLMs with Supercloud
by Daniel Bartholomew | Sep 25, 2023
Supercloud, characterized by a decentralized and distributed architecture, has the potential to revolutionize cloud computing. This paradigm shift could have...
The Seven Benefits of Distributed Multi-Cluster Deployment (Part 2)
by Daniel Bartholomew | Sep 4, 2023
Last week we published Part 1 of a two-part series on the benefits of distributed multi-cluster deployments for modern application workloads, based on our...
How Edge Compute is Enabling Better and More Affordable Gaming Experiences
by Daniel Bartholomew | Aug 14, 2023
A couple months back, we published an article talking about game developers looking to the edge and the transformative value it can offer, particularly in...
Three Edge Computing Challenges for Developers
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jul 24, 2023
Organizations are seeking to migrate more application logic to the edge for performance, security and cost-efficiency improvements. Edge migration poses...
Deploy Apps to the Edge as Easily as to a Single Cluster with CloudFlow’s New Kubernetes Edge Interface
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jul 3, 2023
The pandemic has kicked digital transformation into overdrive: businesses have shifted more user engagement to application workloads, while users expect more...
Understanding Your Edge with CloudFlow’s Next-Gen Observability Tooling
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jun 12, 2023
Edge computing is complex. We can attest to this, having built an edge compute platform from the ground up. One of the fundamental challenges that we’ve faced...
Multi-cloud, Multi-location and Supercloud Strategies Explained
by Daniel Bartholomew | May 13, 2023
In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, businesses are faced with a myriad of choices, each presenting unique advantages and complexities. Among...
Intelligent CloudOps blog series Part 1: Why is an Intelligent CloudOps strategy crucial for ecommerce success?
by Adrian Luna | May 2, 2023
In ecommerce, Managed Hosting is a building block, not a solution With U.S. ecommerce sales in 2022 exceeding $1 trillion, it is safe to say that ecommerce is...
Decoding the Supercloud
by Daniel Bartholomew | Mar 30, 2023
In our increasingly digitized world, the demand for robust cloud computing solutions has reached new heights. Modern enterprises seek cloud infrastructure...
Webscale is an Adobe Accelerate Partner – what that means for merchants.
by Adrian Luna | Mar 3, 2023
If you’re reading this, Webscale is officially an Adobe Exchange Partner at the Accelerate level. Of course, this is big news for Webscale but arguably bigger...
Enabling Merchants and Marketplaces in the Cannabis Industry
by Jose Kunnappally | Aug 25, 2022
In 2021, legal cannabis sales (medical and adult-use) across 39 states and the District of Columbia ($24.5 to $27 billion) overshadowed Starbucks ($20.5...
Part 1: Trying Out Headless WordPress: WP2Static
by Greg Bulmash | Aug 17, 2022
Webscale is a big supporter of going headless, turning your monolithic server application like Magento or WordPress into a data source for a “simpler”...
The art of loading your Magento store in under 3 seconds
by Andrew Bouchard | Aug 1, 2022
Andrew Bouchard is the Head of Business Development at Ziffity Solutions LLC. Magento is a fully-loaded platform that offers all the essential and advanced...
Webscale Earns SOC 2 Type 2
by Greg Bulmash | May 27, 2022
Webscale has earned SOC 2 Type 2 compliance certification. That's actually a big deal. In simple terms it means a rigorous and respected third party audit has...
Deliver Engaging Buying Experiences on Any Device With Headless Commerce
by Andreas Knoor | Apr 15, 2022
Andreas Knoor is the Chief Product Officer of Crownpeak. This blog first appeared on the Crownpeak website. In September 2021, Crownpeak announced a strategic...
How to De-Risk Cloud Region Selection
by Daniel Bartholomew | Mar 14, 2022
When building a cloud application, one of the first decisions to consider is where to deploy it. In fact, Google’s helpful document on Best Practices for...
The Secrets of Magento Auto-scaling
by Martin Pachol | Feb 8, 2022
One of the biggest reasons Magento stores prefer cloud-based hosting is the idea that the store can easily scale up during periods of heavy traffic, such as...
3 Ways to Write Better Caching Modules in Magento
by PAUL BRISCOE | Jan 11, 2022
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...
5 Ecommerce Security Trends to Watch Out for in 2022
by Jose Kunnappally | Dec 13, 2021
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...
Monitoring your sales funnel and site operations with Webscale
by MAX HENRY | Nov 10, 2021
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....
Predicting Your Hosting Cost Per Order
by Martin Pachol | Sep 28, 2021
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...
The 3 Pillars of Ecommerce Customer Experience
by GRAHAM VAN DER LINDE | Aug 20, 2021
Graham Van Der Linde is Head of Brand and Creative at Eclipse UK For years we’ve been told that picking the right platform to build our website on was the...
Why the Right Time to Move to the Cloud is NOW!
by MARK GATES | Jul 9, 2021
Without a doubt, 2020 will likely be remembered for so many reasons that they could end up rivalling the length of your average CVS receipt. It was the year...
Magento 1 PCI-compliance Rears Its Ugly Head…Again PayPal Joins in…Again
by Andrew Humber | Jun 21, 2021
Hard to believe it’s been almost a year since M1 went EOL. I don’t think last year qualifies for the statement of “time flies when you’re having fun”, but...
Site Safety in the Road Warrior World of the Pandemic
by CHRIS YODER | May 28, 2021
During the last year of the pandemic, many people have been working remotely, or on the road. In well managed environments this creates some support issues,...
Do you need a PWA? Myths and Reality
by YAROSLAV ROGOZA | Apr 13, 2021
Yaroslav Rogoza is the Chief Technical Officer of Atwix and one of its first employees. Over the past few years, PWA and headless have proven to be some of...
PWA Explained: What to Expect in 2021
by BRENT PETERSON | Apr 6, 2021
Brent Peterson is President and Co-founder of Wagento Commerce. Although Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) were first introduced by Google back in 2015 as a...
Is Edge as a Service (EaaS) the Next Big Thing in Tech?
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jan 27, 2021
Software as a Service (SaaS) was the largest market segment in the cloud in 2020 and Gartner forecasts it to grow to $117.7 billion by the end of this year....
Key Takeaways from 2020 Cyber Week
by Andrew Humber | Dec 16, 2020
Despite a challenging year, the 2020 Cyber Week broke records with consumers spending $9.03 billion on Black Friday, and $10.8 billion on Cyber Monday. While...
Improve your Application’s Performance with Dynamic Site Cache
by MICHAEL GIBSON | Nov 24, 2020
One of the best ways to improve the performance of a web application is to enable caching. The most commonly used caching method stores copies of static files...
Part 2: The Cost Implications of Moving to a Progressive Web App
by Andrew Humber | Oct 2, 2020
The following conversation took place on the eCommerce-Aholic channel, between the show’s host TJ Gamble, CEO of Jamersan, and Jay Smith, Founder and CTO of...
Part 1: The Challenges of Hosting a Magento Progressive Web App
by Andrew Humber | Sep 9, 2020
The following conversation took place on the eCommerce-Aholic channel, between the show’s host TJ Gamble, CEO of Jamersan, and Jay Smith, Founder and CTO of...
3 Reasons You Need to Move Off Rackspace, Today
by SONAL | Sep 3, 2020
When it comes to choosing a hosting provider for your ecommerce storefront, Rackspace is about as far from being the right choice as possible. There, we said...
Securing a Distributed Edge Network
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jul 1, 2020
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...
Comparing OpEx vs. CapEx Models at the Edge
by Daniel Bartholomew | Apr 23, 2020
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...
6 Top E-Commerce Developers Share Recommendations on Tackling Magento 1 End of Life
by Andrew Humber | Apr 3, 2020
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 migrate...
How Online Retailers Fared in Performance & Security During Holiday 2019
by Andrew Humber | Feb 18, 2020
This article was originally published in Digital Commerce 360 on Feb 17, 2020. The Cyber Weekend in 2019 was, undoubtedly, the biggest one ever in U.S....
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[CASE STUDY] HOW EVENT NETWORK’S 100+ ONLINE STORES STAY UP AND SECURE THROUGH THE HOLIDAY SEASON AND BEYOND, WITH WEBSCALE
by Andrew Humber | Dec 9, 2019
In 1998, Event Network launched a store for the Titanic Artifact Exhibition in Boston. Today, the company is a leading operator of experiential retail stores...
Are You Re-platforming for the Wrong Reasons?
by SONAL | Oct 31, 2019
The decision to re-platform, from one e-commerce platform to another, is never easy, fast, or cheap. In this blog, we’ll share our experiences from...
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[Case Study] How Skinit Achieved 100% Uptime and Blazing Fast Performance with Webscale
by Andrew Humber | Sep 28, 2019
Skinit is the global leader in personalized and branded products for electronic devices. The company creates high quality cases and skins to protect...
The 4 T Framework for Re-platforming Success
by JAY SMITH | Sep 18, 2019
June 2020 - for many online merchants and Magento developers, it's a date that's already burned into memory. Magento 1 will end of life and with that, no...
How’s your Cloud Journey?
by SONAL | Jul 17, 2019
Despite its arrival over a decade ago, many digital commerce businesses continue to struggle with finding success in the cloud. Organizations often set...
Part 3: Actively Managing your Global Cloud Infrastructure: Webscale CEO in Conversation with Cuppa Commerce
by Andrew Humber | Jun 25, 2019
This is a three-part blog series. This part discusses the reliability of cloud-based hosting, scalability, the need for outsourcing, tips for cloud migration,...
6 Ways To Get Better Visibility and Control of your Website Infrastructure with the Webscale Portal
by Aditi | Jun 20, 2019
15 years ago, a typical website’s infrastructure looked pretty simple. But a lot has changed, and hosting architectures today are continuing to increase in...
8-Point Checklist for Successfully Migrating and Managing Your E-Commerce Site in the Cloud
by ANAND HARIHARAN | May 1, 2019
The time to move to the cloud was yesterday! Tired of being shackled by the physical infrastructure-defined limitations of dedicated hosting environments...
Common E-Commerce Infrastructure Challenges and How to Address Them
by Andrew Humber | Mar 21, 2019
This article was originally published in TotalRetail on March 21, 2019. According to Webscale’s recent State of E-Commerce Infrastructure report, 6.4 percent...
Top 8 Reasons Why E-Commerce Sites Crash
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Mar 4, 2019
Back in 2013, Amazon.com lost $66,240 per minute when it crashed. That was six years ago! Today, it’s a well-known fact that you can lose hundreds of...
Demand More from Your Hosting Provider!
by Andrew Humber | Feb 7, 2019
Despite the arrival of the cloud over a decade ago, e-commerce infrastructure (especially in the mid-market) continues to struggle with the physical hardware...
Fundamental Technology Challenges for E-Commerce – And How We’re Solving Them
by Andrew Humber | Dec 18, 2018
While a lot of merchants saw solid growth this year, the all-too-familiar downtime, performance, and bot/cyber-threat challenges continued to plague many....
8 Reasons Webscale’s Support Team Delights Customers
by Zach Ruffin | Nov 20, 2018
“Webscale’s support team has been fantastic and often we are notified by Webscale staff about a problem before we have even become aware there is an issue.”...
4 New Ways Webscale Has Your Back This Holiday Season
by SONAL | Oct 18, 2018
Looking for 100% uptime during the upcoming Holiday Season? For three years in a row, Webscale’s customers have experienced flawless Black Fridays and Cyber...
CDN Costs Going Through the Roof? Seven Ways to Reduce Them.
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Sep 11, 2018
According to an article in Forbes, 47% of users expect a website to load within 2 seconds. 40% of users will leave a website if it doesn’t load within 3...
Why Game Developers Are Looking to the Edge
by Daniel Bartholomew | Aug 14, 2018
As we look ahead to the future of edge computing, there are many use cases that are driving demand. However, one area that we are especially interested in is...
Webscale Gets Real
by MIKE GUGLIELMI | Feb 20, 2018
I’m excited to announce our new partnership with value added distributor, REAL security, covering Southeast Europe. When we first met with them, it was clear...
A Tale of Two Black Fridays
by Andrew Humber | Nov 20, 2017
Event Network knew something was up when they noticed an increase in DDoS attacks in June 2015. In the run up to Black Friday, that same year, they...
Down shouldn’t mean out
by Andrew Humber | Mar 5, 2017
Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced its worst outage in history last week, going down for four hours, and crippling nearly 150,000 websites. The cause –...
Eight Reasons I Breathe Webscale
by SONAL | Dec 15, 2016
As fast as things change in Silicon Valley, one constant over the years is the measurement for a young company’s success: momentum, profitability and a...
Why we’re spending $20M on the Mid-Market
by Andrew Humber | Oct 25, 2016
I couldn’t be more thrilled to share the news that we have secured $12M in funding. This new investment validates our market opportunity and supports our...
Welcome to CTO Corner
by JAY SMITH | Aug 29, 2016
Hi! I’m Jay, co-founder and CTO of Webscale---welcome to the CTO Corner. As someone that’s lived and breathed Webscale for the last four years, I’m pretty...
Two Aspects of Edge Compute to Focus on for Reducing Edge Complexity
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jan 8, 2024
As organizations look to capitalize on the benefits of edge computing, many are quickly realizing the complexities associated with building and operating...
The Complexities of Replicating the Cloud Developer Experience at the Edge
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jan 5, 2024
Over the last fifteen years or so, developers have become very familiar with cloud deployment. Whether using AWS, Azure, GCP, Digital Ocean, or a more niche...
Webscale CloudFlow: The Answer to cluster fleet management for complex Kubernetes deployments
by Adrian Luna | Nov 28, 2023
The landscape of Kubernetes cluster management is brimming with challenges, as recently outlined in Gartner's report on implementing cluster fleet management...
Getting a Grip on Multi-Cloud Kubernetes
by Daniel Bartholomew | Oct 12, 2023
Cloud computing industry expert and author David Linthicum recently wrote in InfoWorld how he believes 2023 may finally be the year of multi-cloud Kubernetes....
Simplifying Managed Multi-Cloud and Edge Kubernetes with Helm Charts
by Daniel Bartholomew | Sep 18, 2023
One of the central observations we made in our recent blog post about Edge Computing Challenges for Developers was the need for familiar tooling, noting that...
The Seven Benefits of Distributed Multi-Cluster Deployment (Part 1)
by Daniel Bartholomew | Aug 28, 2023
With the release of Webscale CloudFlow’s patented Kubernetes Edge Interface (KEI), it’s important to step back and look at why organizations need a solution...
5 Must-Haves in an Edge as a Service (EaaS) Solution
by Daniel Bartholomew | Aug 7, 2023
The “as a service” model is relied on heavily by companies today to meet a wide range of needs. Software as a Service (SaaS) may be the most recognizable of...
Building for the Inevitable Next Cloud Outage – Part 2
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jul 17, 2023
This is the second post in a two part series based on a talk by Pavel Nikolov of Section (acquired by Webscale in 2023) at the recent Europe 2022...
Scaling Horizontally vs. Scaling Vertically
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jun 26, 2023
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...
Kubernetes Is Paving the Path for Edge Computing Adoption
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jun 5, 2023
Since Kubernetes’ release by Google in 2014, it has become the standard for container orchestration in the cloud and data center. Its popularity with...
Why is Observability Important in Ecommerce?
by Adrian Luna | May 10, 2023
Before we apply elements of implementing observability measures for ecommerce businesses, we need to understand what general observability is. What is...
Empowering Application Developers: The Era of Distributed Compute
by Daniel Bartholomew | Apr 22, 2023
In the realm of traditional cloud deployments, developers often found themselves restricted, unable to fully influence the application’s delivery and user...
Can Going Headless Enhance Your Site’s Core Web Vitals Score?
by Jose Kunnappally | Mar 21, 2023
In the ever-evolving world of ecommerce, businesses are continuously striving to provide exceptional online shopping experiences to their customers. One...
5 Ways to Secure Your Headless Commerce Storefront
by Jose Kunnappally | Jan 17, 2023
As headless commerce gains popularity for its flexibility and scalability, it also introduces new security challenges for businesses. In a headless...
Ecommerce Holiday Shopping 2022: What to Expect and How to Prepare?
by Jose Kunnappally | Aug 22, 2022
This year will mark a critical U.S. retail milestone, as ecommerce will cross the $1 trillion mark for the first time, according to the latest retail forecast...
Is Your Ecommerce Store Ready for Cyber Week 2022?
by Jose Kunnappally | Aug 12, 2022
Everyone has a view on what this year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday will look like. Though more and more consumers have shopped early in the past few years due...
Dockerized Magento 2.4.4 in 4 Steps
by Greg Bulmash | Jul 29, 2022
We’ll be providing handy tips, tricks, and integrations for Magento now and then in this blog and it’s nice to have a clean, no-risk local environment where...
Headless Made Easy With Webscale CloudEDGE PWA and Vue Storefront
by Greg Bulmash | May 18, 2022
Webscale is partnering with Vue Storefront to add their solution for composable, headless content and commerce experiences to our pre-configured and tested...
10 Cybersecurity Features Ecommerce Merchants Shouldn’t Ignore in 2022
by Jose Kunnappally | Apr 14, 2022
According to industry reports, more than half of all cyberattacks on ecommerce websites in 2021 were carried out by bots, including sophisticated bad bots...
IT’Sugar is Sweet on Webscale’s Expertise
by Martin Pachol | Mar 1, 2022
“They’re quite helpful,” declared Steve Parris, Vice President of IT for IT’Sugar, a national confectionery retailer, when asked about Webscale. “They really...
Optimizing Magento 2 for Speed
by Martin Pachol | Feb 1, 2022
It’s no secret that speed counts in today’s Internet. Google has made it quite clear that the faster web pages render, the better it is for a website’s...
Webscale CloudFlow Simplifies Global SaaSification
by Daniel Bartholomew | Dec 30, 2021
For software companies, offering their software as a SaaS solution versus an on prem or cloud only model means; Shorter customer deployment times which...
Top Considerations for Containers at the Edge
by Daniel Bartholomew | Nov 22, 2021
Some things are just made to go together, like containers and edge computing. Containers package an application such that the software and its dependencies...
Taming Core Web Vitals in Time for the Holidays
by SONAL | Nov 3, 2021
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...
2021 Global Headless Report
by Jose Kunnappally | Sep 27, 2021
Consumers have become disloyal, so delivering a great user experience is key to securing their continued attention. As a result, the world of modern commerce...
Your Entire Business Needs RUM, Not Just Developers
by NITHYANAND MEHTA | Jul 20, 2021
Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a passive monitoring methodology that captures all end user interactions with a website or application. While RUM has been...
Webscale’s Top 4 Proven Strategies for Great Core Web Vitals
by RITISH RAGHAVAN | Jul 2, 2021
Speed optimization and page performance are critical for driving a seamless customer experience, and the ability to accurately measure these elements is...
Embrace Modern Commerce Today, for a Brighter Tomorrow
by JAY SMITH | Jun 9, 2021
Encompassing a far broader range of touchpoints and interactions throughout the entire consumer journey than ever before, the era of modern commerce seeks to...
Magento Security – 7 Steps to Lock Down Your Ecommerce Site
by CHARLES MARTEY | May 19, 2021
Charles Martey is the Systems Integration Director at Above The Fray. Cybercrimes are on the rise and like all ecommerce platforms, Magento websites are a...
Webscale Secures $26M in Funding to Fuel Ecommerce Cloud and Growth
by SONAL | Apr 8, 2021
Webscale recently announced the closing of $26 million in growth capital financing from investors and Silicon Valley Bank. The Series C round was led by BGV,...
The 2021 Global Ecommerce Security Report
by Jose Kunnappally | Mar 18, 2021
In 2020, as the global ecommerce industry witnessed a decade’s worth of growth in a matter of months, so did the threat of cyber attack on those same...
Corra and Webscale Get Technical on PWA
by Andrew Humber | Jan 19, 2021
Luigi Iuliano, CTO at Corra, and Jay Smith, Founder and CTO at Webscale, recently caught up for a livestream to discuss the hot topic of Progressive Web Apps...
The Challenges of Distributed Databases at the Edge
by Daniel Bartholomew | Dec 7, 2020
Global Internet traffic in 2021 will be equivalent to 135x the volume of the entire Global Internet in 2005, according to Cisco. Globally, Internet traffic...
Why Hosting Providers Have the Inside Track on the Best Developers
by Adrian Luna | Nov 12, 2020
The quality, and related success, of your online presence can all hinge on the agency or system integrator (SI) you choose to work with. However, the search...
Is Your Storefront Battle-Ready for Black Friday 2020?
by Andrew Humber | Oct 1, 2020
Everyone has an opinion on what this year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday will look like. We shared a blog back in August that looked at what some of the biggest...
What is the Webscale Control Plane?
by MICHAEL GIBSON | Sep 9, 2020
If the Webscale Data Plane is the heart of your application then the Webscale Control Plane is the brain. Webscale’s distributed control plane is decoupled...
Black Friday 2020 – What Should Merchants Expect?
by Andrew Humber | Aug 3, 2020
Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Kohls are among the first to make the big announcements that they will not be opening stores on Black Friday due to the COVID-19...
Why Going Headless Doesn’t Have to Mean Losing Your Head
by Andrew Humber | Jun 4, 2020
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...
COVID-19 Has Transformed Ecommerce in These Five Surprising Markets
by MIKE GUGLIELMI | Apr 20, 2020
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....
9 Top Ecommerce Developers Comment on Magento 1 EOL Preparedness and Concerns
by Andrew Humber | Mar 20, 2020
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...
7 Top Developers Share 2020 Predictions for E-Commerce
by Andrew Humber | Dec 19, 2019
The last decade has been a spectacular one for e-commerce. Global e-commerce revenues grew more than 500% between 2010 and 2019. Amazon continues to have the...
6 Top E-Commerce Developers Share Black Friday Success Tips for Online Merchants
by Andrew Humber | Nov 26, 2019
Black Friday and Cyber Weekend are upon us! According to projections from Digital Commerce 360 (formerly Internet Retailer), U.S. shoppers are set to spend a...
Holiday Season 2019: What Online Merchants are Expecting…
by Andrew Humber | Oct 14, 2019
If you’re in the e-commerce business, you already know that the time to start preparing your online storefront for the upcoming holidays was yesterday! With...
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[Case Study] How Dolls Kill Sustains 100% Uptime, Blazing Fast Performance, and Hyper-Growth with Webscale
by Andrew Humber | Sep 27, 2019
Dolls Kill, a leading global online fashion retailer, celebrates a rebellious spirit and attitude, mixed with a bit of punk rock, goth, glam, and festival...
How to Shield Your Online Storefront from Cyberthreats with Webscale’s Web Controls
by Andrew Humber | Sep 11, 2019
Since the advent of digital commerce, hackers have kept both online merchants and the cybersecurity industry on their toes. Large security breaches occur...
CloudFlow Technology Stack – Empowering DevOps Teams with Flexibility and Control at the Edge
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jun 29, 2019
Here’s a breakdown of the CloudFlow technology stack used by (or integrating with) Webscale. DevOps teams enjoy the flexibility and control that the CloudFlow...
Part 2: Actively Managing your Global Cloud Infrastructure: Webscale CEO in Conversation with Cuppa Commerce
by Andrew Humber | Jun 25, 2019
This is a three-part blog series. This part covers why retailers and commerce brands embrace the cloud, the reality of cloud hosting providers, and why...
The E-Commerce Site Owner’s “A-ha!” Moment
by Kyle Livesay | Jun 5, 2019
It’s a look I see all the time. The “so… you guys are just another hosting provider?” look. However, it’s a look that I enjoy watching fade away once I...
Can you Win the E-Commerce Game of Thrones?
by Andrew Humber | Apr 12, 2019
With the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones set to premiere on Sunday, true fans can’t help but get a bit swept up in it all. As the fight for the...
The State of E-Commerce Infrastructure
by Andrew Humber | Mar 15, 2019
The holiday shopping season last year broke all records in terms of e-commerce revenues. Yet, online stores remained plagued with performance, availability,...
Where to Find Webscale in 2019
by Andrew Humber | Mar 4, 2019
One of the most enjoyable parts of my job is talking live to merchants, and hearing about their challenges first hand. We learn a lot in the process, often...
What We Learned from The Holiday Shopping Season in 2018
by Andrew Humber | Feb 7, 2019
The holiday shopping season of 2018 set new sales records globally for the e-commerce industry. Cyber Monday in the US alone generated close to $7.9 billion...
WHILE 2018 WAS BIG, IT’S GOT NOTHING ON 2019!
by Andrew Humber | Dec 18, 2018
A lot has been going on in the e-commerce industry over the last six months. We’re in the middle of an exciting Holiday Season, the largest ever in terms of...
The Online Merchant’s Guide to Securing Magento Storefronts
by JAY SMITH | Nov 13, 2018
Magento recently confirmed that their e-commerce platform suffered a massive malware attack that impacted about 5,000 Magento Open Source users. According to...
7 Questions You Should Ask Dedicated Hosting Providers
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Oct 2, 2018
Running an e-commerce store can be hard. Most business owners are extremely well-acquainted with the dynamics of the markets in which they operate – they are...
10 QUESTIONS FOR SHOP.ORG 2018
by Andrew Humber | Aug 29, 2018
Shop.org 2018, Las Vegas, is the place to be if you are part of the e-commerce industry. At the event, retailers and e-commerce businesses can learn how to...
A RARE BREAK FROM THE TAX MAN?
by Abhishek RVRK Sharma | Apr 25, 2018
Some last-minute tax filers got a break last week, courtesy of the IRS website. Despite the tax filing date being extended two days, the IRS had to extend the...
People Break Stuff!
by JAY SMITH | Feb 13, 2018
Now we are into the New Year, I’ve had some time to reflect on 2017 and our customers’ experiences, especially on Black Friday, Cyber Monday and through the...
Got WAF?
by Andrew Humber | Jul 12, 2017
Cyber attacks increased 22% over Black Friday weekend in 2016. Phishing links are also expected to go up as much as 336% around Thanksgiving, making consumers...
The Cloud’s Next Big Disruption – The Application Delivery Controller
by SONAL | Feb 1, 2017
This blog originally appeared on the website of Benhamou Global Ventures, one of Webscale's key investors. In part II of a three part blog on cloud computing...
Was your black friday golden?
by Andrew Humber | Dec 1, 2016
While most people were sleeping off their turkey-induced food comas and spending time with family and friends over the long weekend, Webscale’s support team...
A Second in the Life of a Web Request
by JAY SMITH | Oct 6, 2016
Welcome back! When an end user out in the real world points their browser to your website, the next 1-3 seconds are crucial. According to research, 40% of...
Edge Developers Leading the Way on Kubernetes Adoption, But Complex Infrastructure Still a Challenge for Many
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jan 8, 2024
A survey released by SlashData™ for the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) recently looked at “The State of Cloud Native Development” based on feedback...
Leveraging Containers as a Service (CaaS) at the Edge
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jan 4, 2024
Container technology derives its name from the shipping industry. As opposed to transporting goods as individual units with various packed sizes, goods are...
Cloud impact on margins: $100B market cap erosion
by Jose Kunnappally | Oct 26, 2023
For most of us, our experience with the cloud is the monthly bill from Google or Apple. We do not care much because it does not make up even one percent of...
Using the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler with Prometheus’ Custom Metrics
by Daniel Bartholomew | Oct 5, 2023
With Kubernetes as the backbone of the CloudFlow Platform, we manage a large, complex network of globally distributed clusters with the goal of optimizing...
Roadmap to the Adaptive Edge – Balancing Cost Efficiency, Usability, and Performance Tradeoffs
by Daniel Bartholomew | Sep 11, 2023
The network edge presents new challenges in optimizing application deployments, as the deeper an application is pushed into the internet, the greater the...
Key Kubernetes and Edge Trends to Watch
by Daniel Bartholomew | Aug 27, 2023
Daniel Bartholomew, Webscale's Chief Product Officer, has shared his insights on four noteworthy trends to monitor within the realms of Kubernetes, container...
Prometheus Querying – Breaking Down PromQL
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jul 31, 2023
Prometheus has its own language specifically dedicated to queries called PromQL. It is a powerful functional expression language, which lets you filter with...
Building for the Inevitable Next Cloud Outage – Part 1
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jul 10, 2023
The following is based on a talk by Pavel Nikolov of Section (acquired by Webscale in 2023) at the KubeCon+CloudNativeCon Europe 2022 event. This first post...
How to Solve the Edge Puzzle
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jun 19, 2023
Finding the right technology solutions these days can feel like trying to hit a moving target. With web applications both increasing in complexity and...
Intelligent CloudOps blog series Part 3: How Intelligent CloudOps turns TCO into ROI
by Adrian Luna | May 16, 2023
For ecommerce, an Intelligent CloudOps strategy connects application and infrastructure performance to checkout conversions, which enables organizations to...
Intelligent CloudOps blog series Part 2: Data Path Observability for Ecommerce – and How it Could Increase Sales
by Adrian Luna | May 9, 2023
You can’t fix what you don’t see Data path observability is the ability to see and understand the data flow from the originating request source, to the...
Should you consider FEaaS solutions for your Headless build?
by Jose Kunnappally | Apr 7, 2023
In the rapidly evolving world of ecommerce, businesses are constantly seeking ways to provide seamless and engaging online shopping experiences. As the demand...
Cache Warming – Optimizing User Experience
by Rahul Sharma | Mar 13, 2023
Cache warming is a concept which is used to optimize the performance of a website or web application by preloading the cache with frequently accessed content....
Is Going Headless the Right Path for Your Ecommerce Business?
by Jose Kunnappally | Nov 3, 2022
In the fast-paced world of ecommerce, staying ahead of the competition and delivering seamless user experiences are paramount. As businesses seek innovative...
Part 2: Trying Out Headless WordPress: Gatsby
by Greg Bulmash | Aug 19, 2022
Webscale is a big supporter of going headless, taking your monolithic server application like Magento or WordPress offline and using it to generate a static...
Online Brand Store or Online Marketplace or Both? How Can Cannabis Merchants Decide?
by Jose Kunnappally | Aug 10, 2022
Many cannabis brands joined the ecommerce bandwagon during the pandemic to ensure their offerings were accessible to customers and patients. The biggest...
Embracing the MACH Approach for a Successful Headless Build
by Jose Kunnappally | Jul 4, 2022
Ecommerce businesses are continuously seeking ways to stay ahead of the competition, by providing seamless customer experiences, and adapting to changing...
The Global Ecommerce Security Report 2022
by Jose Kunnappally | Apr 18, 2022
Cyberattacks continued to rise in 2021 even though ecommerce sales saw a minor dip compared to 2020. According to industry reports, more than half of all...
Troubleshooting Your Web App Slowdown in 7 Steps
by JAY SMITH | Mar 21, 2022
In this article, I will walk you through the step-by-step process of diagnosing an increase in the average time to first byte (TTFB) for an application...
Support, Cloud Gave Viewsonic Reasons to Move
by Martin Pachol | Feb 15, 2022
Since 2012, ViewSonic has hosted its ecommerce solution on Magento, now owned by Adobe. Viewsonic is a leading provider of monitors, displays, and projection...
How a CDN can boost your Core Web Vitals
by Jose Kunnappally | Jan 12, 2022
Ecommerce merchants are always looking for ways to improve their site’s performance. Slow website pages can harm businesses as they increase bounce rates and...
Key Takeaways From 2021 Cyber Week
by Jose Kunnappally | Dec 20, 2021
This year, consumers began their holiday shopping early, as early as October in some cases, concerned about the supply chain-related challenges that are...
Top 3 ecommerce frauds and how to tackle them
by TYLER MULLEN | Nov 19, 2021
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...
The Webscale Portal – an Ecommerce Merchant’s Super-power!
by RITISH RAGHAVAN | Oct 12, 2021
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...
Edge Security for Modern Commerce
by Adrian Luna | Sep 7, 2021
David Baier, Managing Partner, of leading digital agency Crimson Agility recently joined me for a podcast to discuss security at the edge and technology...
Magento Security at the Edge: Cyber Crime’s Next Hunting Ground
by Andrew Humber | Jul 14, 2021
At the recent Magento Association (MA) Connect 2021 event, Webscale’s Head of Strategic Partnerships, Adrian Luna, presented a session on Magento Security at...
Beyond Traditional Ecommerce Hosting & Security
by Andrew Humber | Jun 24, 2021
Webscale’s Head of Strategic Partnerships, Adrian Luna, recently got chatting with Frank Thomson, VP of Marketing and Sales at leading ecommerce agency...
Get Ahead of Core Web Vitals with (Webscale) Real User Monitoring
by MAX HENRY | Jun 4, 2021
Last year, Google announced that the user experience signal fed into its search ranking algorithm is undergoing an update, initially for mobile and, shortly...
The pulse of application health: TTFB!
by NITHYANAND MEHTA | May 12, 2021
In conventional medicine, your pulse can help reveal a lot of underlying problems. In the same way, if there is a single metric that is measured and tracked...
Preparing for Ecommerce Success in 2021
by Andrew Humber | Apr 7, 2021
Leading digital agency in the UK, Eclipse recently joined us for a webinar to discuss ecommerce success strategies for 2021. From Eclipse, Tim Stainthorpe,...
Webscale Technology Wins New Industry Awards
by Andrew Humber | Feb 12, 2021
2020 was a rollercoaster year to say the very least. Yet, with enormous challenges come opportunity and fortunately for Webscale, with its laser focus on the...
JAMstack done right
by JAY SMITH | Dec 17, 2020
Increasingly, ecommerce market leaders are focusing on enriching user experiences across a wide variety of buyer endpoints such as voice-enabled shopping...
What is Site Splice?
by MICHAEL GIBSON | Nov 24, 2020
Today’s modern web applications have many components - shopping carts, blog posts, product lists, user reviews, and more. The traditional method of hosting...
Without Observability, DevOps is Doomed
by Daniel Bartholomew | Oct 5, 2020
Speed of innovation is a key differentiator for businesses in a competitive market. Developers working at the bleeding edge of technology are always looking...
The Largest M1 Breach to Date – What You Need to Know
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Sep 16, 2020
Last weekend, there was a Magento 1 security breach that impacted more than 2000 storefronts, and that number could be higher. The attack used the "Magento...
What is the Webscale Data Plane?
by MICHAEL GIBSON | Sep 9, 2020
Welcome to Tech Corner! In this new section of the blog, we’ll be sharing some of our more technical content, including explainer blogs on some of the...
Creating the Mutual Funds of Edge Computing
by Daniel Bartholomew | Jul 10, 2020
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...
Magento 1 EOL: What Visa and PayPal Said and What You Need to Know
by Andrew Humber | May 15, 2020
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)...
Magento 1 EOL Support – You Have Options, Pick the Right One
by SONAL | Apr 9, 2020
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...
The State of Ecommerce Infrastructure 2019
by Andrew Humber | Mar 12, 2020
The Cyber Weekend of last year was the biggest one ever in U.S. ecommerce history, with online shopping spend increasing to more than $9.4 billion on Cyber...
Magento 1 Merchants: June 2020 Is NOT the End. We’ve Got Your Back!
by SONAL | Dec 11, 2019
With Magento 1’s end-of-life coming up, it might seem like everyone is scrambling for cover. And understandably so, given the fact that after June 2020,...
Are you ready for Magento 2.2 End of Life?
by Andrew Humber | Nov 14, 2019
Magento 2.2 is the new Magento 1! Come December 31, 2019, Magento 2.2.x will end of life (EOL) and thousands of merchants will likely be stuck without access...
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[Case Study] How Skate One Skated to Site Uptime, Performance, and Support Wins with Webscale
by Andrew Humber | Sep 30, 2019
Since 1976, Skate One has manufactured and distributed high-performance skateboard decks, wheels, bearings, trucks, hardware, clothing, and accessories. They...
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[Case Study] How HYLETE went from a Black Box to the World`s Most Scalable Hosting Infrastructure
by Andrew Humber | Sep 26, 2019
HYLETE is a direct-to-consumer brand that creates premium performance athletic apparel – built for the modern athlete and priced for everyday use. What...
What Are GA Sessions?
by Martin Pachol | Aug 12, 2019
And how are they used to calculate billing? As a Webscale Stratus customer, you know that your monthly billing is a calculation of Plan Rate plus any overage...
3 Reasons Integrated Platforms are Better than Point Solutions for your Applications and Business
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Jun 28, 2019
On June 4, 2019, we saw the news about Distil networks, a point solutions company offering bot management, being acquired by Imperva, a security platform....
Part 1: Actively Managing your Global Cloud Infrastructure: Webscale CEO in Conversation with Cuppa Commerce
by Andrew Humber | Jun 25, 2019
This is a three-part blog series. In Part 1, we introduce Webscale, how we work with hyperscale cloud providers, and discuss the challenges commerce brands...
Democratizing the Cloud: Leveling the Playing Field for Digital Businesses
by SONAL | May 23, 2019
Last week, we announced our Series B round of funding at $14 million. We’ve come a long way as a team, we’ve learned a lot, and it’s a good time to take stock...
Image Management: What it is and Why it’s Important for E-Commerce
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Mar 26, 2019
Last Updated On: August 3, 2021 A picture is worth a thousand words. Over 70% of search engine users regularly search for images of products before buying...
The Online Merchant’s Guide to Auto-Scaling
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Mar 12, 2019
Picture this. You’ve spent weeks preparing for a massive online sale. Your products are priced right. Your social media influencers are primed and ready to...
The state of e-commerce infrastructure: Lessons learned from the 2018 holiday shopping season
by SONAL | Feb 8, 2019
This article was originally published in Internet Retailer on Feb 7, 2019. Consumers spend billions of dollars online between October 1 and December 31,...
E-Commerce in 2019: Top 10 Trends for Online Merchants
by SONAL | Jan 24, 2019
The e-commerce space is continuing its relentless growth. It is a segment that has made such irrevocable change to consumer buying habits that it is hard to...
Why Manage Bots? Here’s Five Reasons.
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Dec 11, 2018
According to Internet Retailer magazine, Thanksgiving weekend was the largest online shopping weekend ever. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24-25, generated $6.4...
Bots – The Good, The Bad, and The Malicious
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Nov 6, 2018
When Google CEO Sundar Pichai demonstrated the company’s AI-powered Google Assistant’s capabilities earlier this year, we all watched in awe as a highly...
Hackers are Smart. How to Be Smarter?
by Andrew Humber | Sep 14, 2018
It was May 21, 2014. E-commerce juggernaut eBay shocked the world by announcing that a database containing users' encrypted passwords and other personal data...
‘Tis the Season to be Hacking – Is Your E-commerce Store Ready for Black Friday?
by ANAND HARIHARAN | Aug 21, 2018
Massive global events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday trigger pure online shopping mayhem. According to Forbes, online sales during Black Friday and Cyber...
YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT TO US
by Abhishek RVRK Sharma | Apr 19, 2018
“Your call is important to us. Please hold” If I had a penny for every time I’ve heard those words during a phone call to a service provider (mobile operator,...
The Webscale Top 10 for Black Friday
by SONAL | Nov 22, 2017
Webscale has a 100% uptime record for 2016 across our entire customer base. In an effort to support our customers through another amazing season for 2017, we...
Web Only, Cloud FIrst
by SONAL | Apr 10, 2017
This blog originally appeared on the website of Benhamou Global Ventures, one of Webscale's key investors. We have a saying at Webscale – “Deliver, no matter...
Multi-Cloud is the New Cloud in 2017
by SONAL | Jan 19, 2017
Convergence in the cloud brings together advancements not just in compute, storage and networks, but in software and services that together serve the broader...
Great user experiences start with fast content
by JAY SMITH | Nov 21, 2016
I generally have zero tolerance for slow web page load times – I mean don’t we all? But regardless of how content-rich your website may be, there are some...
Bringing simplicity and agility to web application owners
by SONAL | Aug 30, 2016
Welcome to the new Webscale blog. I'm Sonal Puri, CEO of Webscale, and I'm passionate about technology startups. In particular, I’m passionate about the...