How we stage a live store before we touch it
A faithful copy, its own database, sealed off from customers, tested like production. How we build a staging site that is actually safe to…
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What a Claude deployment actually looks like for a small business
Not the demo. The Tuesday-afternoon reality of running a studio on Claude: what it does, the rules that keep it safe, and what a…
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Upgrading a retailer to Magento 2.4.8, and why checkout broke
Two major versions behind, a ten-megabyte home page, then checkout died. How we brought a specialist retailer's Magento current and what we found underneath.
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Running ad operations for a niche B2B publisher
Ad slots that survive theme updates, sponsorship fencing, weekly creative loads via the API, newsletter placements and an early-morning event daily. The real job…
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Anatomy of a storefront compromise
An unpatched extension, a fake system daemon, a backdoor and a checkout skimmer. How a high-traffic store was compromised and how we took it…
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The publisher whose traffic “collapsed” and had never been real
Page views down ninety percent in a week. The site had not lost an audience. It had lost a counting error. Here is what…
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Keeping a B2B dealer portal honest against a live ERP
A distributor's Magento B2B portal talks to its ERP in real time. The storefront was the easy part. Keeping it honest is the job.
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