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Technical insights on Optimizely CMS, Commerce, and the modern .NET ecosystem.
AI Token Cost Allocation in Outsourcing: A Proposed Framework for Tracking LLM Spend Across CWOs
The New Line Item Nobody Budgeted For Two years ago, AI tooling was an experiment. Today, it's infrastructure. Developers at software outsourcing companies are using Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Clau...
How We Wired an E-Commerce Platform to SAP (and What We Learned the Hard Way)
The Problem Statement If you've ever worked on an e-commerce platform that needs to talk to SAP, you already know the fun: two worlds with completely different ideas about data, timing, and what co...
MCP Server for E-commerce: AI Agents as the New Ops Team
"The future of e-commerce management is shifting away from building more complex internal dashboards and moving toward creating standardized interfaces where AI agents can act as an intelligent, sc...
From Bug Report to Fix in 15 Minutes: The AI Debugging Revolution
It was a regular Tuesday morning. I was sipping my first coffee, settling into the rhythm of the day while working on ShopFlow—our flagship B2B e-commerce platform. ShopFlow is a complex beast; it ...
SAP and Optimizely Integration: A Strategic B2B Guide
In the complex landscape of B2B e-commerce, the seamless integration between an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and a Content Management System (CMS) is a cornerstone of digital maturity....
Strategic API Architecture: A Guide for Modern Enterprises
The Strategic Role of API Architecture in Digital Transformation In the current era of hyper-connectivity, the choice of Application Programming Interface (API) architecture is no longer just a...
Integrating SAP ERP with Optimizely Commerce: A B2B Guide
Introduction In the landscape of B2B e-commerce, the integration between a Content Management System (CMS) and an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a complex yet vital endeavor. This...
Optimizely CMS: Find vs. Database Architectural Analysis
In the lifecycle of developing Optimizely CMS applications, architects and developers frequently face a critical decision: "Should we use Optimizely (Episerver) Find or query the database directly ...
Understanding ESB and Message Queues: Architecture & Use Cases
Introduction to Modern Integration Patterns In modern software architecture, especially when moving from monoliths to microservices, the way systems communicate is critical. Two dominant patter...
Building an E-commerce Site in Hours with Google AI Studio & Supabase
In the modern development landscape, the distance between a spark of inspiration and a production-ready application has shrunk to a record minimum. By leveraging Generative AI, specifically Google ...