Commerce Cloud: What You Need to Know with Yarik Voronyi, Russell Albin, Shane Herman

Your host: Joseph Maxwell, Founder and CEO of SwiftOtter, Inc.

Special Guests: Yarik Voronyi (Engineering Manager at Adobe), Russell Albin (Technical Principal Architect at Adobe), Shane Herman (Senior Director of Customer Engineering)

Show Notes

We’re going to talk with Yarik Voronyi, Russell Albin, and Shane Herman. Today’s topic is on sticking points with Commerce Cloud, the challenges people bring upon themselves when they are deploying solutions out to Commerce Cloud and what we can due to avoid the problems.

0:00
Show starts.

1:40
Joseph asks his guests what the most common mistakes they see people making in Commerce Cloud.

1:58
Russell comes at the issue from the developer side. He sees a lot result from live inventory requests. He has cautioned people against it. He encourages them to figure out what cadence is good enough (every 30 minutes, an hour, etc),and feed Commerce with the appropriate data. Otherwise, real time is always a problem.

4:51
Yarik sees a lot of customers not pay attention to full page caching. He shares a solution to that.

7:00
Shane tells about how some of their clients are using GraphicQL.

9:27
Joseph asks a question about GraphicQL and caching. Shane says it doesn’t natively cache but they can use Get.

10:33
Shane talks about how important it is to do so some self-help before you reach out to support. You can save yourself time and headaches.

12:38
Yarik describes the site analysis tool.

14:49
Shane addresses extensions from the marketplace and things to watch out for.

17:26
Russell discusses ideal configurations. In your config.PHP, it dumps some of the config values, to help with the compilation time. You can also add post deploy hook, all of this info is in the Dev Docs.

Google: Commerce Cloud Ideal State : for more info.

18:30
Yarik talks about indexers and index functionality. Extensions often invalidate indexers, and that causes issues in Commerce.
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