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Engineering insights, product updates, and commerce infrastructure guides.
A drifted indexer, a dead cron, a JS-broken add-to-cart button — the worst Magento outages all return HTTP 200. Here's why generic uptime monitors miss them, and how to catch each one.
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Three ways to get Magento sales into Sage, Xero, or FreeAgent — a native connector, a generic automation tool, or manual export. Here's why the hard part isn't moving the data, and what actually breaks.
Magento rebuilds composer, di:compile, and static content on every deploy — even when nothing changed. Here's how Orbit's per-phase fingerprinting skips the work that doesn't need to run, without ever shipping a broken release.
From a single Magento 1 extension for a UK retailer to the official PlentyONE-appointed Magento 2 connector — the story of how Byte8's PlentyONE (formerly PlentyMarkets) integration came to be.
How we built Horizon — an MCP server that makes a Magento 2 catalog queryable by AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT. The architecture, the eight tools, and why it's read-only.
New Relic is great for general APM. But Magento stores need Magento-specific monitoring. Here's why we built Pulsar.
Stop deploying at 2 AM. Atomic symlink swaps, brief cutover holds, and honest maintenance windows make Magento deploys safe in business hours.