In the past, I have written critically about running ATG Oracle Commerce in “The Cloud” (Here and here). I’ve recently spent several months working on a project implementing ATG Oracle Commerce at AWS in partnership with Pivotree and wanted to share what I’ve learned. Pivotree is the only AWS and Oracle ATG partner certified to
Last month some of the leading Oracle Commerce experts met in San Francisco to share their knowledge and learn from each others’ experiences with the platform. The occasion that brought these people together was Spark::red Insight West, one of the annual Spark::red Insight events tailored to the Oracle Commerce community. With speakers that included both Oracle Commerce customers
Last week some of the most well-known Oracle Commerce customers and industry experts met at the Oracle offices in Cambridge, MA to hear industry news, share their experiences with the platform and learn best practices. Inspired by ATG Insight, the Oracle Commerce Insight East is one of the series of ATG and Endeca community meet-ups
Similar to the well-known repository cache and the lesser-known cache droplet, there exists a third type of cache that all ATG engineers should know about. The cache I’m referring to can be used to cache anything in memory. The cache droplet does this, but it has the limitation of having to be invoked from a
I’ve been eyeing up the ATG Commerce Reference Store’s native iOS app ever since it was added with Commerce Reference Store (CRS) 10. It’s not too bad and proves the point that Oracle Commerce/ATG can be ported into mobile environments. Here are the steps I took to get the app completely functional. This is a
The Commerce Reference Store (CRS) is an important part of Oracle Commerce/ATG because it is a fully functional implementation that is rich in features, and a reference for how to do things for many projects. I originally wrote a blog post on installing CRS with ATG 10, but thought I’d make an update for ATG
Build-A-Bear Workshop® is a global interactive entertainment retailer with nearly 400 stores all over the world with an engaging commerce-based website. Its website experienced occasional outages and slowness with the previous managed hosting provider which impacted the retailer’s conversion rate. The site buildabear.com® was relaunched with Spark::red in October 2012. From the very beginning, it
IBM’s new report on the performance of VM and Linux Containers from July 21, 2014, while primarily demonstrating the relative performance advantages of Linux Containers (such as Docker), contains a great deal of current performance information on VMs that is extremely relevant, especially if you are running a CPU or I/O intensive workload, such as
This is a guest post written by Ben Carlson, the Director of Managed Services at Amplifi Commerce. Spark::red Team would like to thank Ben for sharing this valuable information with our readers. Oracle Commerce’s runAssembler tool overrides context.xml customizations; here’s how to fix it. Overview Recently one of our clients hired a security firm to run
Please note this blog post is from 2013. To read an UPDATED perspective from the same author (Devon Hillard), click here: Deploying Oracle ATG Commerce in AWS Cloud [2019 Updated Review] With the rise of “Cloud Computing” over the last several years, more and more companies are looking to leverage virtual machines or cloud services