eCommerce Architecture

Magento — Adobe Commerce — is capable of handling significant traffic volume when the infrastructure is configured correctly. The qualifier “when configured correctly” does significant work in that sentence. The issues that cause Magento performance to degrade under peak traffic are well-known in principle and routinely underestimated in practice. Database lock contention during concurrent add-to-cart…

Stripe is, by a significant margin, the best-documented payment API available for eCommerce developers. The documentation is accurate, the test environment is realistic, and the dashboard tooling is genuinely useful. Stripe integrations still fail. Not because the documentation is wrong, but because the edge cases that cause production failures are not the ones you encounter…

Event-driven architecture gets recommended frequently in eCommerce contexts, often for reasons that are either vague (“it’s more scalable”) or technically correct but contextually wrong for the system in question. The result is either systems that avoided event-driven architecture when it would have helped, or systems that adopted it and discovered the operational complexity was not…

Amazon’s Selling Partner API replaced the older MWS (Marketplace Web Service) platform and brought significant changes to how merchants connect their eCommerce systems to Amazon’s marketplace infrastructure. The SP-API surface is broader, the authentication model is different, and the migration from MWS left a lot of existing integrations in a broken state. For merchants running…