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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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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.
Agentic Commerce and Emerging AI Shopping Protocols
Agentic commerce is a new era of shopping in which autonomous AI agents act on behalf of users to handle everything from product discovery to purchasing. If traditional e-commerce was about search and scroll, this new era is about ask and done.
Top Subscription eCommerce Platforms and Tools in 2026
The subscription economy isn’t slowing down; it’s booming, fast. What started as Netflix and Dollar Shave Club territory has now become the backbone of how brands build loyalty, forecast revenue, and personalize experiences at scale.
Data-Driven, AI-Powered Commerce: Strategies for 2026
The pace of innovation is bordering on warp speed – personalization algorithms, automation, and AI assistants are reshaping how consumers shop virtually overnight.
Building a Modern Checkout Flow with Crystallize APIs
A typical ecommerce experience needs a reliable checkout flow that moves a customer from browsing products to a complete order. With Crystallize, you can build such flows using a combination of the Discovery API and the Shop API. In this post, we walk through the core steps involved in a modern checkout flow: fetching products, hydrating a cart, placing a cart, and creating an order. The examples are language-agnostic GraphQL operations you can adapt to your frontend or backend stack.