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How we evaluated the impact of GitHub Copilot for 3 months
How we evaluated the impact of GitHub Copilot for 3 months
GitHub announced its launch of GitHub Copilot for Business in February of this year. This announcement immediately caught our attention and…
Tobias Deekens
Sep 13, 2023
3 years of sustaining Open Source through our donation program
3 years of sustaining Open Source through our donation program
Throughout the last three years, we have continuously supported Open Source projects through an initiative we call the Open Source donation…
Tobias Deekens
Jun 7, 2023
A systematic approach to organizing yourself with Obsidian
A systematic approach to organizing yourself with Obsidian
How I set up a system to capture, organize, prioritize and execute all the work I am doing and to ensure I don’t forget anything I need to…
Yannick Gladow
Jan 24, 2023
Why we need Staff Product Managers
Why we need Staff Product Managers
Our product and development teams here at commercetools have doubled in size over the last year, and we plan to continue to grow. This…
Anastasia Drougka
Sep 17, 2022
Veni, vidi, vici: my journey into mastering remote working
Veni, vidi, vici: my journey into mastering remote working
After working remotely things turned out different than I planned. Here are four tips to integrate into your remote working routine.
Tobias Deekens
Aug 5, 2022
Product & Tech — Better Together!
Product & Tech — Better Together!
The one big challenge in product development is that there are always so many ideas and so little time! Or so they say. The far bigger…
Andrea Stubbe
Aug 1, 2022
Scaling our Frontend architecture with our team's growth
Scaling our Frontend architecture with our team's growth
Over the last several years the commercetools team and product witnessed an exponential growth that required organisational changes as well…
Nicola Molinari
Jul 26, 2022
The heat is on: My learnings from our Engineering offsite
The heat is on: My learnings from our Engineering offsite
At the beginning of 2020, I organized an offsite for 15 Scala Engineers. A few weeks later, our CEO asked everyone to temporarily work from…
Christoph Neijenhuis
Jul 15, 2022
Staff and Principal Engineers: why do we need them now? (Part 2)
Staff and Principal Engineers: why do we need them now? (Part 2)
When we designed our tech leadership track, we looked at our internal requirements and at what others in the industry are doing. Our needs…
Christoph Neijenhuis
Mar 28, 2022
Staff and Principal Engineers: why do we need them now? (Part 1)
Staff and Principal Engineers: why do we need them now? (Part 1)
An evolution log of how we built our Tech Leadership track, from the early stages of a ‘Tech Lead’ to introducing Staff and Principal…
Christoph Neijenhuis
Mar 14, 2022
Integrating cryptocurrency, crypto payments and commercetools
Integrating cryptocurrency, crypto payments and commercetools
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to gain mainstream traction as a digital currency. 3 methods to integrate crypto with commerce
Nicholas Speeter
Jan 14, 2022
Seamlessly connect cloud services with commercetools + AWS EventBridge
Seamlessly connect cloud services with commercetools + AWS EventBridge
AWS EventBridge can both be used to filter messages and events. Compared to SNS (and SQS), AWS EventBridge has a number of new…
Brad Soo
Dec 30, 2021
Building an API for All Businesses
Building an API for All Businesses
How to leverage API design principles to maximize flexibility
Marc Stracuzza
Jul 23, 2021
Bring your APIs from good to awesome with UX research!
Bring your APIs from good to awesome with UX research!
Learn how we use UX research and integrate user research into our API development so we can take our APIs to the next level
Sven Heckler
Mar 18, 2021
Testing JavaScript applications with confidence
Testing JavaScript applications with confidence
It is undeniable that a lot has changed in the last few years in the world of JavaScript. This should not come as a surprise. We are…
Nicola Molinari
Oct 29, 2020
Serverless commercetools Integration
Serverless commercetools Integration
One command deployments for your e-commerce Serverless code.
Nicholas Speeter
Oct 6, 2020
How we created an effective, game-based team feedback framework
How we created an effective, game-based team feedback framework
The experiences of creating our own team feedback framework from scratch and adding fun elements to gamify it and incentivize…
Evi Lazaridou
Jun 18, 2020
Adopting Changesets for release and changelog automation
Adopting Changesets for release and changelog automation
Documentation is crucial for any open source project to describe functionality and changes. We looked at ways to automate release notes.
Nicola Molinari
May 27, 2020
Easy steps to get OBS running for high-quality demo and presentation recordings
Easy steps to get OBS running for high-quality demo and presentation recordings
In this age of remote working, I put together this guide to recording high-quality software demos and presentations for our product team.
Brad Soo
May 12, 2020
Migrating commerce Apple Watch App to GraphQL
Migrating commerce Apple Watch App to GraphQL
Commerce involves lots of data. We moved our watch app to GraphQL to achieve high performance, even with the hardware of an older…
Nikola Mladenovic
Mar 23, 2020
Five practical tips when using React hooks in production
Five practical tips when using React hooks in production
As early adopters of React hooks, here are five tips when using hooks in production that might improve development of your next project.
Tobias Deekens
Mar 9, 2020
It’s done! Or is it?
It’s done! Or is it?
How a company-wide feature Definition of Done helps deliver a consistently great product with independent teams.
Andrea Stubbe
Feb 3, 2020
Integrating Siri in Existing E-Commerce Apps
Integrating Siri in Existing E-Commerce Apps
Voice-activated assistants and digital assistants are becoming more and more present in eCommerce industry. In fact, trend watchers…
Nikola Mladenovic
Dec 2, 2019
Writing Your First Code Generator
Writing Your First Code Generator
While in most industries, there is fear of automation and the impact it might have on the job markets, software engineering is the total…
Beniasaad Achraf
Oct 25, 2019
From Slack to Production
From Slack to Production
Our Full Component-Based Development Life Cycle
Malcolm
Oct 11, 2019
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