I write about the gap between what commerce platforms promise and what they actually deliver in production. Fifteen years of migrations, no vendor allegiances.
I track commerce roles - architect, VP, CTO, fractional, the whole altitude band - as an input to my own practice. Over the last few weeks about 950 of them came through the net. This is a filtered view, not a census: my sources lean Adobe …
Every delivery team I have worked with in the last five years has had the same experience. The project kicks off. The team reads the SOW. They review the architecture diagrams. They skim the RFP response. They attend the …
Every delivery team I know has a story about a review board that killed their momentum. Architecture review. Security review. Vendor management. Data privacy. The story always goes the same way: “We were ready to …
Most people on Micro.blog use the in-platform theme editor and never touch git. That works fine and I would not push them off it. But if you want a real git-and-CI workflow on top of Micro.blog — pull requests, code …
Every team I have managed or assessed in fifteen years of commerce engineering has had one. The person who moves fastest. The person who holds the most context. The person everyone routes questions to because they always …
Every commerce platform I have ever migrated carried custom code that nobody could explain.
Not “nobody remembered.” Nobody could explain what it did, why it existed, or whether removing it would break …