Commerce & Automation: engineering articles and technical guides
E-commerce engineering and event-driven workflow automation across Shopify, WooCommerce and n8n.
Commerce & Automation
GoHighLevel CRM Sync: Webhooks, Workers and API Rate Limits
The HighLevel-specific engineering behind a CRM sync that holds up: single-use refresh tokens, per-location rate budgets, signed webhooks and echo-free two-way updates.
10 min read · Commerce & Automation
Commerce & Automation
n8n on Kubernetes: Queue Mode, Workers and High Availability
Main, workers and webhook processors on Kubernetes: the settings that must match across pods, how to route webhooks, and what high availability really costs.
10 min read · Commerce & Automation
Commerce & Automation
Webhook Ingestion at Scale with BullMQ and Redis
How to split webhook ingestion into a thin receiver and BullMQ workers, and the Redis and deduplication settings that stop events going missing under load.
10 min read · Commerce & Automation
Commerce & Automation
Hydrogen Storefront API Caching: Sub-Requests, Fragments and Oxygen
How to cache Storefront API sub-requests in Hydrogen, why the 2026-10 release changes the default, and how to split queries so stable and volatile data cache separately.
9 min read · Commerce & Automation
Commerce & Automation
Preventing WooCommerce Overselling: Stock Reservations, Row Locks and Queues
WooCommerce already reserves stock under a row lock at checkout. Overselling at volume comes from the paths that bypass it, and that is where your fixes belong.
9 min read · Commerce & Automation
Commerce & Automation
Shopify Bulk Operations: Importing Large Catalogues with productSet
A production pipeline for loading tens of thousands of products into Shopify: JSONL chunks, staged uploads, parallel bulk mutations and line-by-line reconciliation.
10 min read · Commerce & Automation
Commerce & Automation
Shopify Checkout Extensibility Migration After the Deadlines
Every legacy checkout path has now been switched off. Here is how to find what broke and rebuild it with checkout UI extensions, Shopify Functions and web pixels.
10 min read · Commerce & Automation
Commerce & Automation
Designing Resilient Multi-Platform Data Pipelines with n8n and Webhooks
Handling high-volume webhooks, idempotency, automated failure retries, and AI-assisted data classification.
7 min read · Commerce & Automation
Commerce & Automation
Shopify Hydrogen and Custom Storefronts: When to Leave Liquid
Liquid, Hydrogen or your own Storefront API front end - what each costs in app compatibility, checkout control and ongoing maintenance.
6 min read · Commerce & Automation
Commerce & Automation
E-Commerce Engineering: Shopify Custom Apps & Scalable WooCommerce Systems
High-traffic checkout optimization, custom app integrations, and real-time inventory synchronization.
7 min read · Commerce & Automation