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AEO is reshaping visibility in ecommerce. Learn what answer engine optimization means for merchants and how to prepare your store for AI-driven discovery.
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AEO is reshaping visibility in ecommerce. Learn what answer engine optimization means for merchants and how to prepare your store for AI-driven discovery.


A CDP collects, structures, and activates your shoppers' behavioral data. Here is what it does, how it differs from a CRM, and whether your store needs one.

Looking for a Dynamic Yield alternative? Webscale's AI Shopping Assistant replaces rule-based personalization with conversational AI built into your infrastructure.

Google's UCP lets AI agents buy products without visiting your site. Learn what it means for Adobe Commerce, Magento, and Shopware merchants and how to prepare.

Third-party tags are unreliable, incomplete, and invisible to AI. Learn why first-party data is now the foundation of ecommerce growth and how to build it.

AI shopping assistants convert Adobe Commerce shoppers at 4x the rate of standard browse flows. Here's how they work and what to look for in a native integration.

Webscale launches Agentic Commerce OS, the first operating system for conversational AI-powered shopping. Discover how live data and real-time audience segmentation transform product discovery and sales.

AI agents are transforming how dealers, distributors, and procurement buyers shop. Here's what B2B agentic commerce means and how to build a portal that's ready.

93% of ecommerce purchases begin with a search. Only 1 in 10 shoppers find what they are looking for. That gap is not a UX problem — it is a technology problem. And the fix is not a better search bar.

Stop waiting on data teams for audience segments. Natural language segmentation lets marketers build precise ecommerce audiences in plain English, no SQL required.

Your commerce data is already there — your ERP, storefront, dealer portals, and CRM are generating it right now. But like crude oil sitting unrefined underground, it's doing nothing. An Agentic Commerce OS is the refinery that finally puts it to work.

A practical, platform-specific guide — without the hype. Here is what each platform gives you natively, where the gaps are, and how Webscale bridges them.

It's not uncommon for shoppers to add items to a cart, then leave the site without completing a purchase.

Commerce brands are sitting on one of the most valuable assets in the digital economy. They just do not know how to use it yet.

Both live in a chat widget. Both answer questions. But one is built to deflect. The other is built to sell. Here is how to tell them apart — and why it matters for your bottom line.

Recommendation engines are getting smarter. The widget — the passive row of 'You might also like' products sitting below the fold on your product pages — is still the wrong interface. Here is why, and what replaces it.

Shoppers sometimes need a bit of guidance when deciding what to buy. They may not know which accessory will meet their needs, for example, or whether a higher-end option is worth it.

Shoppers don't usually reach a site with a clear idea of what they want. Many click on a product that seems interesting, then spend time exploring different…

Replacing Constructor.io? Webscale's AI Shopping Assistant goes beyond search optimization. It replaces the keyword model with conversational product discovery.

AI agents are already completing purchases inside Google and ChatGPT. Here's the practical merchant checklist for preparing your store for AI-mediated commerce.

Gorgias is a helpdesk. If your shoppers are abandoning before they reach your agents, a different helpdesk won't fix it. See what Webscale's AI Shopping Assistant does instead.

Nosto infers from behavior. For B2B buyers, gift shoppers, and first-time visitors, inference misses. See what infrastructure-native conversational discovery does instead.

Switching from Algolia? Most merchants replace it with another search engine. For Adobe Commerce, Magento, and Shopware merchants, there's a fundamentally different option.

Shoppers often arrive on websites without a clear idea of what they want. They'll open a category and scroll through items, then pause to take a closer look at…

Revenue growth in online commerce is tied to how well a business understands customer behavior while it's happening. Live customer data refers to information…

AI is becoming a standard component of the modern commerce experience. Retailers are adding assistants to product pages and search results as well as checkout…

Shoppers move between pages and devices as they explore options, and their intent can change within a single session. Static analysis only records activity…

Learn the difference between good and bad web traffic. Discover key indicators like engagement, conversion rates, and bounce rates to optimize your marketing strategy and improve ROI.

Discover how Webscale evolves ecommerce operations in 2026 with intelligent infrastructure, strategic partnerships, and proactive support that drives real commerce outcomes.

Carding attacks test stolen credit card information through automated transactions, evading detection until damage occurs. Learn how these fraud schemes work and what signs to watch for.

Selling online in a regulated category takes careful planning. Specific rules govern who you can sell to, how you're allowed to accept payments, and where…

Business leaders usually think about e-commerce in terms of market share or platform choices. These are important, but focusing only on what customers see masks…

Most e-commerce platform comparisons start with simple pricing tables because fees feel relatively concrete. Numbers on a pricing page create the impression…

The Appeal of “Easy” (And Why It Makes Sense at the Start) For many e-commerce teams, the earliest platform decision feels refreshingly straightforward.…

The Problem Most Ecommerce Leaders Don’t Realize They Have For many e-commerce leaders, growth feels harder to obtain than it once did, even when demand appears…

Commerce platforms generate a constant stream of data, but most of the tools that collect it were built for reporting, rather than engineering work. These tools…

The Threat You Can’t See A storefront can feel busy when traffic climbs, but that momentum fades away when conversion rates stay flat. Teams search for…

[Introduction] The Promise and Pressure of Headless Commerce Headless commerce gives brands a level of freedom they struggled to achieve with older, tightly…

The Blind Spot in Modern eCommerce Every e-commerce stack includes an array of tools, from marketing platforms to content management systems. Yet, few provide…

Most e-commerce brands face pressure to deliver fast performance while controlling costs at the same time. Fixed infrastructure can leave servers idle during…

Introduction: From Automation to Intelligence E-commerce has come a long way over the last decade. Early online stores used to feature static product grids and…

Discover how AI is transforming ecommerce security with real-time threat detection, automated bot protection, and adaptive defenses that respond faster than traditional firewalls to keep your store secure.

For years, managing the web has meant managing chaos: patching performance issues, tuning security rules, and racing to respond to new threats as they appear.…

When it comes to e-commerce, every second counts. Studies show that even a couple-second delay in page load times can lead to a noticeable drop in conversion…

I. The Visibility Problem Most e-commerce teams don’t truly know what’s happening on their storefront until after an issue arises. Pages slow down, conversions…

Most store owners assume that when sales increase, operational costs are going to rise proportionally (or even stabilize). The expectation is that growth brings…

Starting a new chapter in my career at Webscale has been energizing. Like many in the industry, I’ve spent years in the trenches with AWS, most recently helping…

E-commerce is facing a significant shift. Third-party cookies were once the foundation of digital targeting efforts, but they're starting to disappear.…

Most e-commerce merchants only discover issues with their sites after they've already lost customers. A checkout process that breaks in response to traffic, a…

E-commerce has come a long way since the first digital checkouts. Sites are now loading faster, payments are more secure, and marketing has become a lot more…

Over the last fifteen years or so, developers have become very familiar with cloud deployment. Whether using AWS, Azure, GCP, Digital Ocean, or a more niche…

Supercloud, characterized by a decentralized and distributed architecture, has the potential to revolutionize cloud computing. This paradigm shift could have…

Daniel Bartholomew, Webscale's Chief Product Officer, has shared his insights on four noteworthy trends to monitor within the realms of Kubernetes, container…

Prometheus has its own language specifically dedicated to queries called PromQL . It is a powerful functional expression language, which lets you filter with…

Capacity planning is a challenge that every engineering team faces when it comes to ensuring the right resources are in place to handle expected (and…

For ecommerce, an Intelligent CloudOps strategy connects application and infrastructure performance to checkout conversions, which enables organizations to…

In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing, businesses are faced with a myriad of choices, each presenting unique advantages and complexities. Among…

Before we apply elements of implementing observability measures for ecommerce businesses, we need to understand what general observability is. What is…

You can’t fix what you don’t see Data path observability is the ability to see and understand the data flow from the originating request source, to the backend…

In ecommerce, Managed Hosting is a building block, not a solution With U.S. ecommerce sales in 2022 exceeding $1 trillion, it is safe to say that ecommerce is…

In the rapidly evolving world of ecommerce, businesses are constantly seeking ways to provide seamless and engaging online shopping experiences. As the demand…

In the ever-evolving world of ecommerce, businesses are continuously striving to provide exceptional online shopping experiences to their customers. One crucial…

Cache warming is a concept which is used to optimize the performance of a website or web application by preloading the cache with frequently accessed content.…

If you’re reading this, Webscale is officially an Adobe Exchange Partner at the Accelerate level. Of course, this is big news for Webscale but arguably bigger…

As headless commerce gains popularity for its flexibility and scalability, it also introduces new security challenges for businesses. In a headless…

In the fast-paced world of ecommerce, staying ahead of the competition and delivering seamless user experiences are paramount. As businesses seek innovative…

In 2021, legal cannabis sales (medical and adult-use) across 39 states and the District of Columbia ($24.5 to $27 billion) overshadowed Starbucks ($20.5…

This year will mark a critical U.S. retail milestone, as ecommerce will cross the $1 trillion mark for the first time, according to the latest retail forecast…

Webscale is a big supporter of going headless, taking your monolithic server application like Magento or WordPress offline and using it to generate a static…

Webscale is a big supporter of going headless, turning your monolithic server application like Magento or WordPress into a data source for a “simpler”…

Everyone has a view on what this year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday will look like. Though more and more consumers have shopped early in the past few years due to…

Many cannabis brands joined the ecommerce bandwagon during the pandemic to ensure their offerings were accessible to customers and patients. The biggest dilemma…

Andrew Bouchard is the Head of Business Development at Ziffity Solutions LLC. Magento is a fully-loaded platform that offers all the essential and advanced…

We’ll be providing handy tips, tricks, and integrations for Magento now and then in this blog and it’s nice to have a clean, no-risk local environment where you…

Ecommerce businesses are continuously seeking ways to stay ahead of the competition, by providing seamless customer experiences, and adapting to changing market…

Webscale has earned SOC 2 Type 2 compliance certification. That's actually a big deal. In simple terms it means a rigorous and respected third party audit has…

Webscale is partnering with Vue Storefront to add their solution for composable, headless content and commerce experiences to our pre-configured and tested…

Cyberattacks continued to rise in 2021 even though ecommerce sales saw a minor dip compared to 2020. According to industry reports, more than half of all…

Andreas Knoor is the Chief Product Officer of Crownpeak. This blog first appeared on the Crownpeak website. In September 2021, Crownpeak announced a strategic…

According to industry reports, more than half of all cyberattacks on ecommerce websites in 2021 were carried out by bots, including sophisticated bad bots that…

In this article, I will walk you through the step-by-step process of diagnosing an increase in the average time to first byte (TTFB) for an application running…

When building a cloud application, one of the first decisions to consider is where to deploy it. In fact, Google’s helpful document on Best Practices for…

“ They’re quite helpful ,” declared Steve Parris, Vice President of IT for IT’Sugar , a national confectionery retailer, when asked about Webscale. “ They…

Since 2012, ViewSonic has hosted its ecommerce solution on Magento, now owned by Adobe. Viewsonic is a leading provider of monitors, displays, and projection…

One of the biggest reasons Magento stores prefer cloud-based hosting is the idea that the store can easily scale up during periods of heavy traffic, such as…

It’s no secret that speed counts in today’s Internet. Google has made it quite clear that the faster web pages render, the better it is for a website’s…

Ecommerce merchants are always looking for ways to improve their site’s performance. Slow website pages can harm businesses as they increase bounce rates and…

Paul Briscoe is Director of Development at Human Element In today’s marketplace, online merchants are focused on the speed of their website as a key indicator…

This year, consumers began their holiday shopping early, as early as October in some cases, concerned about the supply chain-related challenges that are…

Over the past year, the ecommerce sector has seen a surge in sales. Owing to the pandemic, ecommerce platforms have embraced the digital journey of millions of…

Some things are just made to go together, like containers and edge computing . Containers package an application such that the software and its dependencies…

Tyler Mullen is director of marketing at Kensium. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos once said: “We see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts.…

Every time a shopper accesses your site, they leave a trail of breadcrumbs detailing their path through your store and their user experience along the way.…

This article was originally published on the Magento Association website as a Commerce Co-op blog on October 20, 2021. For more than a decade, Google has…

Ecommerce sales worldwide touched $4.28 trillion in 2020 and are projected to grow to $5.4 trillion by 2022. With the upcoming holiday shopping season set to…

Do you know what your hosting is costing you for each sale? When planning for hosting, merchants and developers are often left with a conundrum: how much…

Consumers have become disloyal, so delivering a great user experience is key to securing their continued attention. As a result, the world of modern commerce is…

David Baier, Managing Partner, of leading digital agency Crimson Agility recently joined me for a podcast to discuss security at the edge and technology…

Graham Van Der Linde is Head of Brand and Creative at Eclipse UK For years we’ve been told that picking the right platform to build our website on was the…

Real User Monitoring (RUM) is a passive monitoring methodology that captures all end user interactions with a website or application. While RUM has been widely…

At the recent Magento Association (MA) Connect 2021 event, Webscale’s Head of Strategic Partnerships, Adrian Luna, presented a session on Magento Security at…

Without a doubt, 2020 will likely be remembered for so many reasons that they could end up rivalling the length of your average CVS receipt. It was the year…

Speed optimization and page performance are critical for driving a seamless customer experience, and the ability to accurately measure these elements is…

Webscale’s Head of Strategic Partnerships, Adrian Luna, recently got chatting with Frank Thomson, VP of Marketing and Sales at leading ecommerce agency Accorin,…

Hard to believe it’s been almost a year since M1 went EOL. I don’t think last year qualifies for the statement of “time flies when you’re having fun”, but with…

Encompassing a far broader range of touchpoints and interactions throughout the entire consumer journey than ever before, the era of modern commerce seeks to…

Last year, Google announced that the user experience signal fed into its search ranking algorithm is undergoing an update, initially for mobile and, shortly…

During the last year of the pandemic, many people have been working remotely, or on the road. In well managed environments this creates some support issues, as…

Charles Martey is the Systems Integration Director at Above The Fray. Cybercrimes are on the rise and like all ecommerce platforms, Magento websites are a prime…

In conventional medicine, your pulse can help reveal a lot of underlying problems. In the same way, if there is a single metric that is measured and tracked by…

Yaroslav Rogoza is the Chief Technical Officer of Atwix and one of its first employees. Over the past few years, PWA and headless have proven to be some of the…

Webscale recently announced the closing of $26 million in growth capital financing from investors and Silicon Valley Bank. The Series C round was led by BGV,…

Leading digital agency in the UK, Eclipse recently joined us for a webinar to discuss ecommerce success strategies for 2021. From Eclipse, Tim Stainthorpe,…

Brent Peterson is President and Co-founder of Wagento Commerce. Although Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) were first introduced by Google back in 2015 as a promising…

In 2020, as the global ecommerce industry witnessed a decade’s worth of growth in a matter of months, so did the threat of cyber attack on those same…

2020 was a rollercoaster year to say the very least. Yet, with enormous challenges come opportunity and fortunately for Webscale, with its laser focus on the…

Software as a Service (SaaS) was the largest market segment in the cloud in 2020 and Gartner forecasts it to grow to $117.7 billion by the end of this year. Not…

Luigi Iuliano, CTO at Corra, and Jay Smith, Founder and CTO at Webscale , recently caught up for a livestream to discuss the hot topic of Progressive Web Apps…

Increasingly, ecommerce market leaders are focusing on enriching user experiences across a wide variety of buyer endpoints such as voice-enabled shopping…

Despite a challenging year, the 2020 Cyber Week broke records with consumers spending $9.03 billion on Black Friday, and $10.8 billion on Cyber Monday. While…

Global Internet traffic in 2021 will be equivalent to 135x the volume of the entire Global Internet in 2005, according to Cisco . Globally, Internet traffic…

One of the best ways to improve the performance of a web application is to enable caching. The most commonly used caching method stores copies of static files…

Today’s modern web applications have many components - shopping carts, blog posts, product lists, user reviews, and more. The traditional method of hosting all…

The quality, and related success, of your online presence can all hinge on the agency or system integrator (SI) you choose to work with. However, the search for…

Speed of innovation is a key differentiator for businesses in a competitive market. Developers working at the bleeding edge of technology are always looking for…

The following conversation took place on the eCommerce-Aholic channel, between the show’s host TJ Gamble, CEO of Jamersan, and Jay Smith, Founder and CTO of…

Everyone has an opinion on what this year’s Black Friday/Cyber Monday will look like. We shared a blog back in August that looked at what some of the biggest…

Last weekend, there was a Magento 1 security breach that impacted more than 2000 storefronts, and that number could be higher. The attack used the "Magento…

If the Webscale Data Plane is the heart of your application then the Webscale Control Plane is the brain. Webscale’s distributed control plane is decoupled from…

The following conversation took place on the eCommerce-Aholic channel, between the show’s host TJ Gamble, CEO of Jamersan, and Jay Smith, Founder and CTO of…

Welcome to Tech Corner! In this new section of the blog, we’ll be sharing some of our more technical content, including explainer blogs on some of the features…

When it comes to choosing a hosting provider for your ecommerce storefront, Rackspace is about as far from being the right choice as possible. There, we said…

Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Kohls are among the first to make the big announcements that they will not be opening stores on Black Friday due to the COVID-19…

At Section, we are working to leverage data science and machine learning methods to create the mutual funds of edge computing . In finance, Modern Portfolio…

Security for edge computing is ipso facto a large and complicated topic. In our previous post , we looked at challenges specific to security at the edge. In…

I’ll confess to saying that whenever I hear the term “headless ecommerce”, I think of Nearly Headless Nick . But it turns out that headless ecommerce has…

Last Updated On: August 3, 2021 UPDATE: 2021 is a new year, but it’s the same story - Paypal has sent new communications to merchants on Magento 1 (M1) warning…

When Akamai was founded in 1998, co-founders Daniel M. Lewin and Tom Leighton, were not only inventing the first content delivery network (CDN), but also…

Last Updated On: August 3, 2021 Human beings are a resilient lot. We have an innate ability to weather a storm, and find ways to not only survive, but thrive.…

Last Updated On: August 3, 2021 UPDATE: Fast forward to today - it’s now been over a year since Magento 1 (M1) went end of life (EOL). PCI compliance requires…

With Magento 1’s end-of-life (EOL) less than 60 days away, the race is on for merchants still on M1 to find a way to stay there , re-platform to M2, or migrate…

With Magento 1’s end-of-life (EOL) coming up in less than three months, a lot of ecommerce merchants seem both confused and concerned. And rightly so, given…

The Cyber Weekend of last year was the biggest one ever in U.S. ecommerce history, with online shopping spend increasing to more than $9.4 billion on Cyber…

This article was originally published in Digital Commerce 360 on Feb 17, 2020. The Cyber Weekend in 2019 was, undoubtedly, the biggest one ever in U.S.…

The last decade has been a spectacular one for e-commerce. Global e-commerce revenues grew more than 500% between 2010 and 2019 . Amazon continues to have the…

With Magento 1’s end-of-life coming up, it might seem like everyone is scrambling for cover. And understandably so, given the fact that after June 2020,…
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In 1998, Event Network launched a store for the Titanic Artifact Exhibition in Boston. Today, the company is a leading operator of experiential retail stores…

Black Friday and Cyber Weekend are upon us! According to projections from Digital Commerce 360 (formerly Internet Retailer), U.S. shoppers are set to spend a…

Magento 2.2 is the new Magento 1! Come December 31, 2019, Magento 2.2.x will end of life (EOL) and thousands of merchants will likely be stuck without access to…

The decision to re-platform, from one e-commerce platform to another, is never easy, fast, or cheap. In this blog, we’ll share our experiences from…

If you’re in the e-commerce business, you already know that the time to start preparing your online storefront for the upcoming holidays was yesterday! With…
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Since 1976, Skate One has manufactured and distributed high-performance skateboard decks, wheels, bearings, trucks, hardware, clothing, and accessories. They…
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Skinit is the global leader in personalized and branded products for electronic devices. The company creates high quality cases and skins to protect…
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Dolls Kill, a leading global online fashion retailer, celebrates a rebellious spirit and attitude, mixed with a bit of punk rock, goth, glam, and festival…
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HYLETE is a direct-to-consumer brand that creates premium performance athletic apparel – built for the modern athlete and priced for everyday use. What started…

June 2020 - for many online merchants and Magento developers, it's a date that's already burned into memory. Magento 1 will end of life and with that, no…

Since the advent of digital commerce, hackers have kept both online merchants and the cybersecurity industry on their toes. Large security breaches occur almost…

And how are they used to calculate billing? As a Webscale Stratus customer, you know that your monthly billing is a calculation of Plan Rate plus any overage on…

Despite its arrival over a decade ago, many digital commerce businesses continue to struggle with finding success in the cloud. Organizations often set…

On June 4, 2019, we saw the news about Distil networks, a point solutions company offering bot management, being acquired by Imperva , a security platform.…

This is a three-part blog series. This part discusses the reliability of cloud-based hosting, scalability, the need for outsourcing, tips for cloud migration,…

This is a three-part blog series. This part covers why retailers and commerce brands embrace the cloud, the reality of cloud hosting providers, and why…

This is a three-part blog series. In Part 1, we introduce Webscale, how we work with hyperscale cloud providers, and discuss the challenges commerce brands face…

15 years ago, a typical website’s infrastructure looked pretty simple. But a lot has changed, and hosting architectures today are continuing to increase in…

It’s a look I see all the time. The “so… you guys are just another hosting provider?” look. However, it’s a look that I enjoy watching fade away once I explain…

Last week, we announced our Series B round of funding at $14 million. We’ve come a long way as a team, we’ve learned a lot, and it’s a good time to take stock…

The time to move to the cloud was yesterday! Tired of being shackled by the physical infrastructure-defined limitations of dedicated hosting environments…

With the eighth and final season of Game of Thrones set to premiere on Sunday, true fans can’t help but get a bit swept up in it all. As the fight for the Iron…

Last Updated On: August 3, 2021 A picture is worth a thousand words. Over 70% of search engine users regularly search for images of products before buying them.…

This article was originally published in TotalRetail on March 21, 2019. According to Webscale’s recent State of E-Commerce Infrastructure report , 6.4 percent…

The holiday shopping season last year broke all records in terms of e-commerce revenues. Yet, online stores remained plagued with performance, availability, and…

Picture this. You’ve spent weeks preparing for a massive online sale. Your products are priced right. Your social media influencers are primed and ready to help…

One of the most enjoyable parts of my job is talking live to merchants, and hearing about their challenges first hand. We learn a lot in the process, often…

Back in 2013, Amazon.com lost $66,240 per minute when it crashed. That was six years ago! Today, it’s a well-known fact that you can lose hundreds of thousands…

This article was originally published in Internet Retailer on Feb 7, 2019. Consumers spend billions of dollars online between October 1 and December 31,…

Despite the arrival of the cloud over a decade ago, e-commerce infrastructure (especially in the mid-market) continues to struggle with the physical hardware…

The holiday shopping season of 2018 set new sales records globally for the e-commerce industry. Cyber Monday in the US alone generated close to $7.9 billion in…

The e-commerce space is continuing its relentless growth. It is a segment that has made such irrevocable change to consumer buying habits that it is hard to…

While a lot of merchants saw solid growth this year, the all-too-familiar downtime, performance, and bot/cyber-threat challenges continued to plague many. Every…

A lot has been going on in the e-commerce industry over the last six months. We’re in the middle of an exciting Holiday Season, the largest ever in terms of…

According to Internet Retailer magazine, Thanksgiving weekend was the largest online shopping weekend ever. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 24-25, generated $6.4…

“Webscale’s support team has been fantastic and often we are notified by Webscale staff about a problem before we have even become aware there is an issue.” --…

Magento recently confirmed that their e-commerce platform suffered a massive malware attack that impacted about 5,000 Magento Open Source users. According to a…

When Google CEO Sundar Pichai demonstrated the company’s AI-powered Google Assistant’s capabilities earlier this year, we all watched in awe as a highly…

Looking for 100% uptime during the upcoming Holiday Season? For three years in a row, Webscale’s customers have experienced flawless Black Fridays and Cyber…

Running an e-commerce store can be hard. Most business owners are extremely well-acquainted with the dynamics of the markets in which they operate – they are…

It was May 21, 2014. E-commerce juggernaut eBay shocked the world by announcing that a database containing users' encrypted passwords and other personal data…

According to an article in Forbes, 47% of users expect a website to load within 2 seconds. 40% of users will leave a website if it doesn’t load within 3…

Shop.org 2018, Las Vegas, is the place to be if you are part of the e-commerce industry. At the event, retailers and e-commerce businesses can learn how to…

Massive global events like Black Friday and Cyber Monday trigger pure online shopping mayhem. According to Forbes, online sales during Black Friday and Cyber…

As we look ahead to the future of edge computing, there are many use cases that are driving demand. However, one area that we are especially interested in is…

Some last-minute tax filers got a break last week, courtesy of the IRS website. Despite the tax filing date being extended two days, the IRS had to extend the…

“Your call is important to us. Please hold” If I had a penny for every time I’ve heard those words during a phone call to a service provider (mobile operator,…

I’m excited to announce our new partnership with value added distributor, REAL security , covering Southeast Europe. When we first met with them, it was clear…

Now we are into the New Year, I’ve had some time to reflect on 2017 and our customers’ experiences, especially on Black Friday , Cyber Monday and through the…

Webscale has a 100% uptime record for 2016 across our entire customer base. In an effort to support our customers through another amazing season for 2017, we…

Event Network knew something was up when they noticed an increase in DDoS attacks in June 2015. In the run up to Black Friday, that same year, they experienced…

Cyber attacks increased 22% over Black Friday weekend in 2016. Phishing links are also expected to go up as much as 336% around Thanksgiving, making consumers…

This blog originally appeared on the website of Benhamou Global Ventures, one of Webscale's key investors. We have a saying at Webscale – “Deliver, no matter…

Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced its worst outage in history last week, going down for four hours, and crippling nearly 150,000 websites. The cause – human…

This blog originally appeared on the website of Benhamou Global Ventures, one of Webscale's key investors. In part II of a three part blog on cloud computing…

Convergence in the cloud brings together advancements not just in compute, storage and networks, but in software and services that together serve the broader…

As fast as things change in Silicon Valley, one constant over the years is the measurement for a young company’s success: momentum, profitability and a…

While most people were sleeping off their turkey-induced food comas and spending time with family and friends over the long weekend, Webscale’s support team…

I generally have zero tolerance for slow web page load times – I mean don’t we all? But regardless of how content-rich your website may be, there are some…

I couldn’t be more thrilled to share the news that we have secured $12M in funding. This new investment validates our market opportunity and supports our sales…

Welcome back! When an end user out in the real world points their browser to your website, the next 1-3 seconds are crucial. According to research , 40% of…

Welcome to the new Webscale blog. I'm Sonal Puri, CEO of Webscale , and I'm passionate about technology startups. In particular, I’m passionate about the…

Jay, Webscale's CTO, demystifies cloud-based ADC technology in this new blog series. Learn how our Application Delivery Controller keeps your web application fast, secure, and resilient.
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