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Which hosting strategy wins for enterprise Magento?

When you’re running an enterprise-level Magento store, you can’t afford to leave infrastructure decisions to chance. With large product catalogs, high transaction volumes, and complex integrations, your hosting choices can directly impact your bottom line—and your sanity. The right solution gives you the performance, reliability, and scalability you need while reducing complexities, maintenance overhead, and cost.

Common Magento deployment pitfalls and how cloud automation fixes them

Magento is a powerful eCommerce platform, trusted by businesses large and small for its flexibility and robust feature set. Yet, anyone who has managed a Magento project knows it can be an adventure—especially during deployment. Misconfigured environments, extension conflicts, and unpredictable performance are just a few issues that can turn a routine release into a hair-pulling session.

Agentic AI in financial services: The rise of autonomous intelligence

Agentic AI is coming to financial services. Elastic provides the data foundation and tools to make it work. In a recent talk at Stanford University, Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorganChase, addressed the firm’s use of AI and ended with mentioning that agentic AI was the next frontier of AI at the firm, inferring it wasn’t ready to be deployed yet. Let’s break down why that may be the case and what the financial services industry can do to become more comfortable with agentic AI.

Fix flaky CI tests by chatting with your IDE

Flaky tests are a serious productivity problem. When tests sometimes pass and sometimes fail without code changes, they undermine trust in your CI pipeline and drain time from engineering teams. Debugging them often turns into a slow process of chasing logs, rerunning builds, and trying to guess what went wrong. This post shows how to quickly detect and fix flaky tests directly in your IDE by chatting with an AI assistant.

How Operational Resilience Can Help Build and Maintain Trust

In today’s business landscape, trust and reputation are the foundation upon which organizations are built. A single service outage or poor customer experience can severely damage both revenue and brand reputation. When customers or businesses encounter obstacles with their preferred vendor, they often turn to competitors – and these temporary shifts frequently become permanent changes in loyalty.

Empowering Engineers To Act On Cloud Costs - Right From Where They Work

At CloudZero, our mission has always been clear: power efficient innovation in the cloud by connecting engineering decisions with business outcomes. But here’s the truth — we’re not just solving for visibility. We’re solving for action. In order to turn theoretical savings into actual waste elimination and tangible outcomes, you have to enable engineers to act on cost insights within the tools and workflows they already use. CloudZero’s new Jira integration does just that.

Cloud quotas: How to make cloud management easy

In the past, a cloud architect's pain point was usually deciding between these two options: To tackle this confusion, major cloud service providers (CSPs) launched quotas (in their own words). To give you examples, here are the different terminologies used by the three major public CSPs: The main ingredient of a well-oiled cloud setup that significantly impacts cloud operations is understanding and managing cloud quotas, also known as service quotas.

Top 3 tools for DORA metrics reporting: SquaredUp vs Power BI vs Jira

What is it that makes a high-performing software engineering team successful? This was the challenge undertaken by the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) team around 2015, who created a set of metrics that could provide a reliable, data-driven way to measure and improve software delivery performance.

What Is a Network Assessment, and What Is a Network Audit?

These days, networks are larger and more complex than ever. It’s all too easy to fall short when managing performance, security, and compliance. That’s where network assessments and network audits can help. Both network assessments and network audits can give you a more comprehensive understanding of your network and its current strengths, weaknesses, and threats. As a result, you can quickly identify and resolve issues.

Are Traditional IT Onboarding Methods (Becoming) Obsolete?

You're probably excited when you're about to start a new job, and then onboarding happens. If we're being completely frank, most IT onboarding is a slog. Someone hands you a long PDF, a few old slide decks, and they expect you to make sense of all this in just a couple of days. If you're really lucky, you have a colleague who'll walk you through it, but if everybody's busy (which they usually are), you're on your own, and it's not fun.