Research
The Log
Notes from catalog infrastructure in production. What broke, what we measured, and what the numbers actually say.
21 entries
One second, half your transactions: what a slow storefront actually costs
A slow storefront never throws an error. Nothing crashes, nothing pages anyone, and the money leaves anyway. Two decades of measurement put a price on every 100 milliseconds.
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The sweater our pipeline promoted to merino wool
The source data said cotton blend. The description that came back said premium merino wool. We blamed the prompt, then the model. It was neither, and the reason turned out to be mathematical.
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Your sync didn't crash. It hit a bucket of 40.
A catalog sync dies quietly. No stack trace, no alert. The dashboard just stops moving. We blamed our own code, and the code was fine. Notes on REST, GraphQL, and Bulk Ops, learned the slow way.
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