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I was thinking recently about a time in my career when everything felt in flow. Not just for me, but for the entire product organization. We weren't necessarily working longer hours. We weren't using some revolutionary methodology. We weren't even particularly well-resourced. But something was fundamentally different. I had theories about what made that period special, but I wanted to test my assumptions. So I reached out to colleagues from that time and asked them: What do y

When I suggested this article topic to my engineering partners here, they bristled. Good. That tension is exactly why we need to have this conversation. They were concerned that I was pushing back on the need for technical investment work. I wasn't. I was pushing back on the lack of precision in how we talk about it. And that distinction matters. The Problem with "Tech Debt" A few years ago I was helping a team that was battling incident after incident. Each outage expanded t

In the time it took to read this sentence, AI just helped someone generate a 15-page requirements document, three user story templates,...

You know that saying about the first step being a doozy? That's especially true for product discovery. The more ambiguous the problem or...

Welcome to the third article in our Product Operations series, where we explore how teams can optimize cross-functional collaboration to...

How Elixir can improve developer productivity for scalable and fault-tolerant web apps Concurrency and fault-tolerance are two especially...

Our commitment to client success means being honest about when custom development is - and isn't - the right choice for your business.

In modern cloud applications, scalability is paramount. DynamoDB is engineered to support workloads at any scale, handling millions of...

Do you feel like you're stuck in the AI waiting room? You're not alone. While everyone's talking about AI transforming business, the...

Our team has been developing a Java application with SpringBoot and the Langchain4j framework using LLM (Large Language Model) agents....

When Your Client Forgets You're a Contractor (In a Good Way!) You know you've built something special when your client forgets you're not...

At Commerce Architects, one of our core brand promises is "No Surprises." This commitment permeates everything we do, from software...

When it comes to managed database offerings from AWS, DynamoDB and RDS are the clear category leaders in their respective domains:...

A hands-on introduction to the various components used to build LLM-Driven Agents In a  recent post , we covered concepts in LLM-driven...

A non-code primer introducing the rise and design of LLM powered commerce agents. “The future is already here, just unevenly...

Recently, a client project required a set of files to be processed in S3. We needed to create an infrastructure that could scale well to...

AWS Lambdas are a fantastic technology that allows developers to run a bit of code in one of many languages, and quickly get it deployed...

After a multi-year team effort, Commerce Architects is excited to announce that we have completed the review process and are now a...

Anna Mikhailenko, Claire Yegian, Isaac Teo, Commerce Architects' Summer Interns, 2023 An amazing internship provides a valuable learning...

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, ensuring the availability and performance of critical applications is paramount to success. One...