Functions

As with many people, 2020 was a big year for me personally. In October, my wife and I welcomed our first child to the world. It was a C-Section, so that meant we had an extended stay at the hospital. With the COVID precautions in place, I can’t say it was a vacation-like stay. In […]

Data can give your business a competitive advantage and help enhance your organization’s digital experience. A good user experience can drive business and keep customers coming back. In season 1 episode 8 of the Intelligent Data Podcast, host Arvind Murali and his guest Jim Hertzfeld, Perficient’s Digital Strategy Chief Strategist and co-host of What If, […]

Over the past year, your enterprise has likely experienced a number of challenges, including impacts to your supply chain. Spotting and quickly mitigating risk can help determine the long-term success of your enterprise. Aaron Fromm (Senior Manager, Solution Consulting, Pega), Andrea Kruse (Solutions Consultant, Pega), Udayan Sharma (Pega Practice Director, Perficient), and Bob Vaneck (Chief […]

Managed service offerings (MSO) is the department in an organization responsible for all application support activities. These support engineers work on various technologies, take care of the numerous support issues, and provide resolutions. Here’s why support analysts are important members of any business. The Role of the Application Support Analyst Support analysts fix the application […]

Adobe Summit 2021 is fast approaching and promises to offer numerous sessions on products across the Adobe Experience Cloud suite. Perficient is excited to present this year with MonkeySports on its Magento 1 (M1) to Magento 2 (M2) migration process during the session Upgrading to Higher eCommerce Sales and Efficiency. Magento Commerce is a scalable […]

The customer is your business’ number one priority because they are your main source of revenue and drive you to the next step in your success. Customer expectations are frequently changing and more customers are relying on digital processes for their commerce efforts due to their fluidity. Businesses must digitally transform to keep up with […]

Previously, Magento was using MySQL adapters for messaging and cron jobs to ensure the delivery of messages. This wasn’t reliable and scalable. To combat this, you can integrate RabbitMQ, which adds asynchronous messaging capabilities to Magento and is also scalable and reliable. For example, RabbitMQ could be used where Magento needs to communicate with an […]

The database is a core part of any type of application. The database scheme is constantly changing during the application development phase. It is important to deploy the database changes while deploying the application code to a different instance, such as dev, QA, stage, or production.   However, manually deploying database changes is a tedious process. By […]

The most recent release of Magento Commerce, 2.4 included many new features and updates. The upgrade introduces support for PHP 7.4, Elasticsearch 7, and MySQL 8 versions. Not only that, but there is a significant security enhancement with two-factor authentication enabled by default for the Magento administrator. The release also introduces a default search engine […]

The ability to show/hide an HTML element should be simple enough, right? Well, we can use some HTML attributes and JavaScript functions if we want to, but what if we want to do perform this task without using JavaScript. Is it possible? Yes, it is possible. We can do it with just CSS. Yes, you […]

If you’ve been following the news recently, you’ve likely heard something about how Texas has been trampled by unusually cold temperatures and snow this past week. What you may not have heard is how unprepared the state was for this event. What was even more surprising is how unprepared I was. You may have read […]

There is always the question that runs in the mind of developers, do I choose ternaries or logical && to use in React? Personally, I always prefer logical && over ternaries to handle the truth condition. Let me explain why. Just a few days ago, I was writing the following React code: import React from […]