Articles

09 Sep 2015

What Brakes and What Creates

This article is a reflection of a theme that 3bits often comes across when we discuss e-commerce with our customers. It is important in the change work with e-commerce to balance the business’ strengths and weaknesses. To work with both where the strengths are most important to the business’ road forward, and also the most challenging.

13 May 2015

Our Experience in Integrations with NServiceBus

The reason that we started to work with NServiceBus a few years ago, it that we always have pretty demanding integrations in e-commerce systems where real time in combination with disconnection between different systems is important for the customer experience as well as the demand for up time and stability. The advantages we have seen with NServiceBus is the simplicity in getting the basic structure to work, and instead the focus can be on design of the messages, and mapping of these to respective system.

27 Nov 2014

Load Testing Part 2 – Performance Tests

In the second part of the series of articles about load testing, we will discuss how you can find bottle necks in the system, and examine how much load the system can handle without compromising of the user experience. At 3bits, we often get this question from our customers before a campaign launch or if they of some other reason expect more visitors at the site.

25 Aug 2014

Shopping Cart Park

It is not likely that you will go to a store, select products and then leave the basket or shopping cart and leave, or go to a competing store. It is more common online, and easier. What you can do about the abandoned carts is more difficult. But there is a lot of potential to getting them all the way through the checkout.