SPS Commerce REST API Standards Now Open Source

SPS Commerce REST API Standards Now Open Source

The SPS Commerce Tech Team has been working tirelessly over the past few years in curating a single set of technology best practices that we call Guardrails. These Guardrails are the culmination of years of experience from our engineering teams in...

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SPS Commerce + No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS)

SPS Commerce + No Fluff Just Stuff (NFJS)

If you have ever gone browsing for some great conferences for software engineers, you likely have come across No Fluff Just Stuff, aka NFJS. NFJS offers a network of conferences and webinar topics, both big and small concentrating on anything...

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Speaking at DevOpsCon New York 2021

Speaking at DevOpsCon New York 2021

Had the fantastic opportunity to join the schedule for DevOpsCon New York this year in 2021! I had originally submitted a ton of CFPs across a majority of similarity-focused conferences in early 2020. It was keenly interesting to see the...

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Moving from Dependabot-Preview to Dependabot Native

Dependabot native has been around for a couple years now after GitHub officially acquired it in 2019. But if I google "Dependabot" I still generally find myself at the "Dependabot.com" home-page, and up until last week found myself still using...

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AWS Cross-Account Resource Access Patterns

AWS Account Granularity The growth of SPS Commerce has continued to be very strong, even amidst the recent global pandemic, as we work to provide an enabler for essential services. The demand for SPS services and products continues to grow...

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Architectural Unit Testing

I'm going to assume that you already buy into the advantages of unit testing your code, and the merits of doing so don't need to be enumerated in yet another article. Perhaps more interesting and unique in today's software development...

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AWS X-Ray for Distributed Tracing in AWS ECS

AWS X-Ray for Distributed Tracing in AWS ECS

What is AWS X-Ray? X-Ray is AWS's cloud-native service for distributed tracing. It provides real-time visualization of service maps based on traffic flowing through the applications. X-Ray allows for both pushing and pulling of its trace data into X-Ray. This...

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Meetup: Unleashing Deploy Velocity with Feature Flags

Feature Flags Like many engineering teams, SPS Commerce has been on a journey to Agile and DevOps over the past decade. Consistently, one of the strongest enablers to a more frictionless DevOps culture and experience has been the decoupling of...

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TLS 1.0 & 1.1 Docker Container Support

If your anything like the rest of the DEV teams in the world you know doubt have had some exposure to dealing with TLS 1.2 support for the many dependencies and applications you integrate with. There is a strong likelihood...

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Dependency Management with Dependabot

Dependency Management with Dependabot

Problem No matter what language or package manager, dependency management in most projects suffer from many of the same problems: Evaluating incoming security risks associated with packages in your project never really happens.Latest dependencies are added when a project starts,...

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