It’s easy to get caught up in a daily struggle to find the next big thing in eCommerce. We usually look at it from a short perspective of the next two to three years. Today, we’re changing that for a moment. Join us in a refreshing exercise to picture the industry’s future in the next […]
January 4, 2023
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Why? What is the Problem? As a service contractor with many projects, it’s not unusual that team constellations change. This can have many reasons: Sometimes projects come to an end, sometimes people just want to evolve and learn new things, and sometimes we have to react to unforeseen changes. As new team members join the […]
January 4, 2023
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Required reading: https://engineering.cloudflight.io/defining-boundaries A big part of what makes up complexity are side effects. The challenge with them is the (semi) non-deterministic behavior of their execution. A network call can give me the data I want on success, or error out with any of the multiple error codes it can have. Mutations can completely destroy […]
January 3, 2023
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How to organize the files can be quite confusing when starting in programming, especially when the code base grows and the existing structure cannot manage that much content anymore. Value of Having Structure Why does it matter to us? Modern editors have file search implemented, and we can simply use that to find our files, […]
December 29, 2022
Read moreManaging complexity is a discipline on its own, and many books have been written about it. Regardless of which ones you mastered, compartmentalization of impact will always be on the top list. Let’s say we have a very big code base, and we want to do some changes there. We did the change and now […]
December 21, 2022
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The technology year 2022 is ending and 2023 is upon us. Cloudflight looks at the relevant trends and drivers that will shape the agenda of companies and their IT and digital decision-makers in the coming year. Last year’s Digital Trends from Cloudflight were shaped by the economic and overall social situation and we drew them […]
December 19, 2022
Read moreeCommerce saw an unprecedented boom during the pandemic as people went into forced lockdowns and lives turned virtual. This shift in lifestyle saw a 55% jump in online spending, translating to $1.7 trillion. Globally, eCommerce sales are expected to reach $5.5 trillion in 2022. The explosion in eCommerce is good news for retailers, but there’s […]
December 15, 2022
Read moreWhile composability is the future of commerce, it provides a more fragmented landscape with multiple vendors for specific services being used. That’s why we at Cloudflight put together a detailed guide to give you a hand. With “Reference architecture for commercetools: A blueprint for composable commerce,” prepared in collaboration with commercetools, you can explore the […]
December 1, 2022
Read moreComposable commerce allows you to build your optimal eCommerce system via replaceable components that deliver particular sets of features. Digital products that are the best tools for specific tasks are known as best-of-breed solutions. Your challenge is to identify and incorporate them into your eCommerce architecture. At Cloudflight, a global eCommerce solution partner, we’ve collaborated […]
November 29, 2022
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