The replatform decision, made with evidence
Most replatform conversations start from a mood, not a constraint. Before scoping a migration, name the specific thing the current platform cannot do, because in a growing number of cases, it already can.
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Krunal Prajapati
Director at Lucent Commerce. 13 posts, newest first.
13 posts by Krunal Prajapati
Bundling performance work into a redesign
Put performance in the redesign as a constraint, not as a workstream. A speed project bolted onto a rebuild gets cut, and a speed project run just before one gets thrown away.
CDPs, ESPs and the customer record nobody owns
A CDP does not fix your customer data. It gives the mess a new address, and charges you per profile for the privilege.
Connecting a WMS when you already have a 3PL
Your 3PL already runs a warehouse management system. Buying a second one rarely fixes the problem you have, which is almost always that nobody agreed who owns the stock number.
Error budgets for an ecommerce integration
Agree how much failure is acceptable before it happens, measure the business event rather than the HTTP status, and name what changes when the budget is spent.
Freezing your integrations before peak
Freezing your own repository is the easy half. The changes that break peak come from counterparties whose release calendar you have never asked for.
Image delivery: formats, sizing and the CDN you already have
Shopify already resizes, converts and caches your images. Most slow stores are slow because the theme asks for the wrong size, not because the CDN is missing.
Loading strategy: what to defer, what to inline, what to drop
Every speed project is the same three decisions applied to every file the page asks for. Most of them start with the wrong one.
NetSuite and Shopify: the integration decisions that matter
The connector is the easy part. What decides whether this works is which system owns each object, and what happens the week one of them is wrong.
The migration dry run: rehearsing a cutover
How to rehearse a migration cutover: run the full sequence on real data, time every step, and practice the rollback before launch night.
What peak revealed about your integrations
Peak does not break integrations. It removes the slack that was hiding a design fault, and the failure it produces tells you exactly which one.
What a Magento to Shopify Plus migration actually costs you
The catalog is the easy part. The budget goes on URLs, integrations and the extensions that have no Shopify equivalent.
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