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Cart Performance at Scale: Crystallize Shop API Under Black Friday Load
We’ve put the Crystallize Shop API through a stress test to simulate the expected traffic during Black Friday. The results show that your storefront can handle millions of cart interactions per hour, ensuring smooth checkouts even during peak campaign traffic.
React-based Static Site Generators in 2025: Performance and Scalability
React-powered static site generators (SSGs) combine the best of static publishing with dynamic capabilities. As we head into 2025, several frameworks stand out for their features, performance, and developer experience.
Content Modeling with Structured Content Explained
Content modeling is the practice of defining structured content for your websites, apps, or any digital platform.
Mastering Flows in Crystallize: Smarter Content and Commerce Automation
Flows have always been about process orchestration; Flow Actions make them an automation engine delivering speed, consistency, and governance for their content and product lifecycles.
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Subscription Business Models: Types, Examples, and Strategy Guide (2026).
A regular, monthly influx of revenue from faithful customers? Who wouldn’t want to get in on that?! But how do you know if a subscription business model is the right approach for you? And which one?
Subscription Pricing Strategies: Freemium, Tiered, Usage-Based
Choosing the right subscription pricing strategy is crucial for any business moving to recurring revenue. Beyond just setting a price, it means structuring how customers pay (and what they get) in a way that maximizes conversions and lifetime value.
10 Best Static Website Hosting Providers in 2026 (Ranked and Compared)
A comprehensive guide comparing the top 10 static website hosting providers, evaluated on performance, deployment ease, and cost, to help you choose the best platform for your modern web projects.
Modern Content Platforms: From IT Cost to Growth Engine
Forget the idea that modern content platforms are just something IT needs to handle. Seriously, they're becoming tangible growth engines for businesses. It's time to stop seeing them as only a cost center—a good content platform can actually be a huge driver for expansion and revenue.
Web Rendering Patterns Explained: SSR, CSR & SSG for High-Performance Sites
Server-side Rendering, Static Site Generation, Client-side Rendering. CSR with Prerendering, Progressive Hydration, Partial Pre-rendering, etc. The differences, trade-offs, and similarities between the most common web rendering solutions, and why you should care about them as a developer.
What Is a Static Site?
A static site is a website composed of pre-built HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files. Unlike dynamic websites that generate pages on the server for every request, a static site serves the same fixed file to every user. This results in faster load times, better security, and lower hosting costs.