The Six-Figure WooCommerce Race Condition We Missed in Staging
A high-volume flash sale exposed a silent inventory race condition in WooCommerce, and why standard database locks failed.
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Notes on agentic development.
How to turn AI into real shipping speed: audits, workflows, modernization, and the tactics that hold up in production.
More writing: Ironcrest Software blog and 815 Media blog.
Database isolation is easy compared to B2B onboarding
We built three vertical SaaS products and learned that row-level security is a picnic compared to enterprise onboarding support hell.
Read moreWhy Claude Belongs Nowhere Near a WooCommerce Checkout
Streaming LLM responses in real-time inside a WooCommerce checkout flow is a production disaster waiting to happen.
Read moreWhy We Killed the Microservices Proposal for a Fortune 500 Apparel Brand
When a Fortune 500 apparel brand wanted a distributed headless stack, we saved them millions by refusing to build it.
Read moreWhy I Refuse to Build Headless for Most Clients
The microservices and headless migration tax is real, and most enterprise budgets die long before the architecture pays off.
Read moreStop Rewriting Legacy PHP When Your Queries Are Broken
A complete microservices rewrite won't fix unindexed JOINs and missing object caching. Profile the database first.
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