Reduce Failures and Keep Your Site Running with Circuit Breakers
What are circuit breakers? Circuit breakers are a design pattern that allows an application to avoid catastrophic failure in the event that a dependency is… Read more!
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Development
Feature Flags for Development: An Overview
From Wikipedia:A feature toggle or ‘Feature Flag’ is a technique in software development that attempts to provide an alternative to maintaining multiple branches in source… Read more!
Magento One End of Life: An Interview with SUMO Heavy Co-founder/CTO Bob Brodie
The following is a condensed, edited version of a recorded interview from June 25, 2020.The full recorded version can be heard on our podcast ‘In… Read more!
‘Agile metrics’ are the key to your team’s continuous improvement
Continuous improvement is a vital aspect of an efficient organization. To create a truly great product, a team must repeat what works well and improve what doesn’t — and that same… Read more!
Is Your Website or Product Intuitive For Everyone or Just You?
There are many assumptions that we make as stakeholders. We have a deep technical and strategic understanding of our products. We know how the products… Read more!
Lessons in Infrastructure Automation
At SUMO Heavy, we work with clients that have managed infrastructure and those who manage their own infrastructure. We’ve been lucky enough to work with… Read more!
Why Merchants Need to Implement a Tax Service
At SUMO Heavy, we’ve implemented Avalara for a number of merchants that have experienced significant growth in the past couple of years. As merchants… Read more!
Security is Not a Feature
In the modern era where online privacy is limited, security is no joke. While software vulnerabilities are nothing new, the ubiquity of connected apps such… Read more!
Third-party Services: What You Need to Know
eCommerce merchants frequently use third-party services to add features to their sites. These services can add much-needed features to your site – but there are a… Read more!
Fraud Prevention 101: A Q&A with Pat Maguire from SUMO Heavy
The following is a transcript from an interview with Pat Maguire, Director of Technology at SUMO Heavy. Pat shares some insights on how merchants can… Read more!