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What Is Agentic Commerce?
by Adrian Luna | March 31, 2026

What Is Agentic Commerce?

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.

Agentic Commerce for B2B
by Adrian Luna | March 25, 2026

Agentic Commerce for B2B

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.

What Are Carding Attacks?
by Adrian Luna | January 27, 2026

What Are Carding Attacks?

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.

The Smart Web is Already Here
by Adrian Luna | October 28, 2025

The Smart Web is Already Here

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.…

Supercharging LLMs with Supercloud
by Daniel Bartholomew | September 25, 2023

Supercharging LLMs with Supercloud

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

Prometheus Querying - Breaking Down PromQL
by Daniel Bartholomew | July 31, 2023

Prometheus Querying - Breaking Down PromQL

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

Dockerized Magento 2.4.4 in 4 Steps
by Greg Bulmash | July 29, 2022

Dockerized Magento 2.4.4 in 4 Steps

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…

Webscale Earns SOC 2 Type 2
by Greg Bulmash | May 27, 2022

Webscale Earns SOC 2 Type 2

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…

Key Takeaways From 2021 Cyber Week
by Jose | December 20, 2021

Key Takeaways From 2021 Cyber Week

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

Predicting Your Hosting Cost Per Order
by Martinpachol | September 28, 2021

Predicting Your Hosting Cost Per Order

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…

2021 Global Headless Report
by Jose | September 27, 2021

2021 Global Headless Report

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…

Edge Security for Modern Commerce
by Adrian Luna | September 7, 2021

Edge Security for Modern Commerce

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

Do you need a PWA? Myths and Reality
by Yaroslav Rogoza | April 13, 2021

Do you need a PWA? Myths and Reality

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…

JAMstack done right
by Jay Smith | December 17, 2020

JAMstack done right

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

Key Takeaways from 2020 Cyber Week
by Ahumber | December 16, 2020

Key Takeaways from 2020 Cyber Week

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…

What is Site Splice?
by Michael Gibson | November 24, 2020

What is Site Splice?

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

Without Observability, DevOps is Doomed
by Daniel Bartholomew | October 5, 2020

Without Observability, DevOps is Doomed

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…

What is the Webscale Control Plane?
by Michael Gibson | September 9, 2020

What is the Webscale Control Plane?

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…

What is the Webscale Data Plane?
by Michael Gibson | September 9, 2020

What is the Webscale Data Plane?

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…

Securing a Distributed Edge Network
by Daniel Bartholomew | July 1, 2020

Securing a Distributed Edge Network

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…

What Are GA Sessions?
by Martinpachol | August 12, 2019

What Are GA Sessions?

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…

How’s your Cloud Journey?
by Sonal | July 17, 2019

How’s your Cloud Journey?

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

Why Manage Bots? Here’s Five Reasons.
by Anand Hariharan | December 11, 2018

Why Manage Bots? Here’s Five Reasons.

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

Hackers are Smart. How to Be Smarter?
by Ahumber | September 14, 2018

Hackers are Smart. How to Be Smarter?

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…

10 QUESTIONS FOR SHOP.ORG 2018
by Ahumber | August 29, 2018

10 QUESTIONS FOR SHOP.ORG 2018

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…

A RARE BREAK FROM THE TAX MAN?
by Abhishek Rvrk Sharma | April 25, 2018

A RARE BREAK FROM THE TAX MAN?

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
by Abhishek Rvrk Sharma | April 19, 2018

YOUR CALL IS IMPORTANT TO US

“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,…

Webscale Gets Real
by Mike Guglielmi | February 20, 2018

Webscale Gets Real

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…

People Break Stuff!
by Jay Smith | February 13, 2018

People Break Stuff!

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…

A Tale of Two Black Fridays
by Ahumber | November 20, 2017

A Tale of Two Black Fridays

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…

Got WAF?
by Ahumber | July 12, 2017

Got WAF?

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…

Web Only, Cloud FIrst
by Sonal | April 10, 2017

Web Only, Cloud FIrst

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…

Down shouldn't mean out
by Ahumber | March 5, 2017

Down shouldn't mean out

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…

Eight Reasons I Breathe Webscale
by Sonal | December 15, 2016

Eight Reasons I Breathe Webscale

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…

Welcome to CTO Corner
by Jay Smith | August 29, 2016

Welcome to CTO Corner

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.