BigCommerce

Building BigCommerce Apps with AppExtensions

Matt Volk and Georgia Hough take you inside building BigCommerce apps.

What BigCommerce Has Been Doing with AI

Let's explore some demos, deep dive into the code, and much more.

From Solo Coding to Practical Implementation

Today, I’m going to talk a little bit about myself and my internship experience.

Hackathon Winners Part 4: Product Taxonomy in Just One Click

This team minimized headaches for online merchants.

Hackathon Winners Part 3: The DATA Team Bundles 3 AI Projects into a Suite

This team snatched the award for creating the most impactful user experience.

Hackathon Winners Part 2: AI Simplifies Product Descriptions

Meet Luke Eller, the winner from our Sydney, Australia office.

Why Datadog Is Our Web Team's Best Friend

We'll go over the features we use and the benefits they provide.

How We Swapped Out Our Service Mesh, without Anyone Noticing

The future of routing at BigCommerce is wide open.

Introducing Lead Software Engineer Meg Desko

Meg is an inspiration for anyone who wants to enter the STEM field.

Get to Know Senior Software Engineer, Disha Dutta

Disha has some great advice to offer to anyone who aspires to become a software engineer.

Meet Kyiv Product Manager, Kristina Pototska

In light of International Women's Day, we are celebrating Kristina Pototska, a Product Manager from our Kyiv office.

The Past Year in Ukraine

Join us on the Make It Big Podcast where we open up about our journey over the past year in the Ukraine.

How Paranoia Can Be Healthy

Merriam Webster defines "paranoia" as a type of delusion. I define it a little bit differently.

Changing Careers: Meet Software Engineer NeKisha Mims

Meet NeKisha Mims, a new Software Engineer who didn't take the traditional engineering path.

The Role Engineering Plays in the Product Lifecycle

Let's talk about the Product's lifecycle in the engineer's eyes.

6 Tips for Scala Adoption

I will share our experience on how to find the right balance with Scala.

7.5 IntelliJ IDEA Productivity Tips for Software Developers

Today, I will provide 7.5 tips on IntelliJ IDEA features you should know and how to use them.

Our Hackathon Winners Discuss Their Side Nav Project

Meet the team who won the Weiss-ly Done award for their amazing BigCommerce side navigation project.

Vue.js Demo: Use BigCommerce to Quickly Set up Advanced Commerce Functionality

I hosted this workshop on how to get a Vue.js storefront up and running quickly and painlessly with BigCommerce's eCommerce engine.

Podcast: Meet Infrastructure Security Engineer Jordan Bodily

I recently was invited to the RH-ISAC podcast where Security Integrations Engineer, Ian Furr, interviewed me about my experience in cybersecurity.

Meet Jacquelin, Our Summer Intern

Prior to my summer internship, I thought I wanted to pursue political science or sociology as a major in college.

Intern Spotlight: Amy’s Experience at BigCommerce Engineering

Our summer intern, Amy, takes you through her experience at BigCommerce Engineering.

Use of Kafka and Kafka Streams at BigCommerce

Data streaming is at the heart of BigCommerce’s real-time Data platform.

Mobile Developer Conferences Deliver Inspiration and Innovation

Both Google and Apple developer conferences affect every member of the BigCommerce Mobile Team, albeit to different levels.

From No Code to Software Engineer

Thanks to the ever-expanding education and training options of computer science, it has never been easier to enter the software engineering field.

Meet 2022's TechWomen Emerging Leaders

BigCommerce has participated in TechWomen since 2015. In 2022, we hosted our biggest cohort of five women.

A Panel Discussion on Multi-Storefront

In this panel, we chatted about how Multi-Storefront transforms enterprise businesses and answered live questions from our engaging audience.

Women’s History Month Showcase: Meet Tharaa Elmorssi

We’re heading to Sydney, Australia to spotlight Tharaa Emorssi, a Front-end Software Engineer.

International Women’s Day Spotlight: Meet Tulasi Anand

We’re chatting with Tulasi Anand about her passions and her excitement not just for today, but for Women’s History Month too.

Overcoming Adversity: Meet Our Software Engineer, Kevin Carr

Learn about Kevin’s journey into the engineering field as well as his passion for this year’s Black History Month theme.

More than a POC - Remembering Matt Weiss

There are some people you cannot help but notice. You know, the kind who stand out even when they are sitting down. The kind you always want by your side. That's Matt. Calling him impactful is an understatement. He had this (un)natural ability to bring out the best in

A Hackathon, a Hacker, and a Mentor

A year ago I was one of the hackers in need of mentorship, and only a professional developer for about three months when this [hackathon] came up. However, I’ve also learned over the past year that it’s far more rewarding to “shoot your shot” and miss than to sit on the bench watching everyone else.

Implementing iOS 13 Dark Mode in the new BigCommerce mobile app

How the BigCommerce mobile team added support for a major new feature of iOS 13.

MFW: How I took back control of my work / life balance

What does “work / life balance” really mean? We are all so connected to everything via our various mobile devices, how do you really balance?

GCP Instances, Go To Sleep!

How do you keep your developers happily developing? You give them a suspendable cluster development environment on which to work!

Opening the Door to Future Women Leaders

“Whether or not my daughters pursue a career in tech is immaterial, but that needs to be their own choice, not because they didn't have access or exposure to the opportunities."

Re-Platforming Data @BigCommerce: five second latency on Petabytes of data

Many analysts are hailing Data as the new oil. However, contrary to what they're saying, oil is a depleting resource. Data on the other hand, is an expanding resource.

Native & React Native @ BigCommerce

Cross-platform tools "... allowed a team of motivated engineers who had never coded mobile apps to create an impressive full-functioning prototype that turned this exploratory project into a product driven venture for our team."

A Simple Architecture for Mobile Apps

Whether on-boarding a user, signing in to a service, or simply using a tab-based app with navigation stacks of different screens, almost any app process can be described as a flow of screens and information. It all begins with a start.

VP of Engineering: The first 100 days

"I know that diverse teams outperform homogeneous ones and ultimately build better products..." - David Hauser, new BigCommerce VP of Engineering, reflects on the first 100 days of his journey.

README.md to Manage Humans

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

International Women in Tech Visit BigCommerce

BigCommerce “inspired me to continuously grow and be a leader of excellence.“ - Elena Chigibaeva, TechWomen Mentee

Kate Walters: From Law to Tech

My introduction into development was not a straight path nor a traditional one, but I believe there is value in working with people of all sorts of backgrounds.

Diversity opens doors in product and engineering

Software engineer Erica Lloyd moderates a discussion on Diversity and Inclusion in recruiting at Tribe, BigCommerce's employee resource group for women and allies.BigCommerce is full of brilliant, dedicated people focused on revolutionizing the world of e-commerce, with offices in Sydney, San Francisco, and two offices in Austin – corporate headquarters

SydPHP Laravel Talk: BigCommerce at Scale

In September 2017, we hosted the SydPHP Laravel meetup at our BigCommerce offices in Sydney. Here are the slides for the talk I gave on how we have been scaling our infrastructure. BigCommerce: Running e-Commerce at Scale from Ian Bissett The above slides are not so useful by themselves so

BigCommerce, gRPC, and gruf - a Ruby gRPC Framework

Introducing gruf, a new high-performance, open-source Ruby gRPC framework, built to quickly launch gRPC services at scale.