Why the Discovery Phase Is So Important in the Development Process
The discovery phase is the most important stage of any development project. This is the time where all requirements, features and goals are spelled out. Read more!
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Observability: An Overview
What is observability? Observability is a set of DevOps practices that augment monitoring and lead to the ability to perform more frequent deployments of higher… Read more!
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!
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!