Welcome to this special Episode of ULTRA Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Dave Crow and Professor U with UltraCommerce. We learn about the platform, its history, and why it is a fantastic solution for a multitude of merchants who are looking for a robust ecommerce platform or an order management system, or a product information system, or even a marketplace! Wow, this is fantastic! Professor U joins us to talk about partners and who should and can get involved. This episode was recorded on July 8th, 2021
Magento Hyva theme with Vinai Kopp
Welcome to Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Vinai Kopp who is a big advocate of the new Hyva theme. We discuss why Hyva makes sense for every developer, agency, and merchant. Vinai gives us reasons why Agencies need to embrace Hyva and get their teams on board. He also talks about the benefits for the merchant to use it. We go into the differences between PWA and a monolith and dive into microservices. All this while not getting too technical. You have to listen to this episode to hear Vinai’s opinion on PWA vs Hyva! This episode was recorded on July 7th, 2021
Michael Turk and Spryker Commerce
Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the communities they work and live in. This week we interview Michael Turk, Senior Director Solution Consulting with Spryker. We start off the show with how Brent tricked Michael into running a marathon. (How often that happen?) We discuss the origins of Spryker Commerce OS. We examine headless verses monolith and dispel some notions that headless makes things complicated. We also dive into what makes solutions too complicated. We look at some very impressive stats on checkout rates on B2B and B2C. This episode was recorded on June 24th, 2021
Sonal Puri | Modern Commerce & Edgy Hosting
Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce and the ecosystems, and communities they work and live in. This week we interview Sonal Puri, CEO at Webscale. We discuss the meaning of “Modern Commerce ”, how online retailers should be thinking about new technology (the shiny new thing is sometimes the best), and how Core Web Vitals is something that requires every merchant’s attention (yesterday). We also discuss Jay Smiths’ “Edgy” open letter, as well as how Webscale prides itself on always pushing the market in terms of features and capabilities. Sonal also shares how important she feels it is that we mentor young people today, helping them complete their education and finish college. This episode was recorded on June 21st, 2021
Stefan Willkommer | Adobe Commerce and AEM
Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce, ecosystems, and communities they work and live in. This week we interview Stefan Willkommer with TechDivision in Germany. We discuss Adobe Commerce, Magento Opensource, and the health of the Magento community. We dive into Adobe Commerce and Adobe Experience Manager and look at how it is working for merchants, even in the mid-market. We learn about the fantastic new office space that TechDivision has built and has yet to have people come back to. Stefan gives us some great books to read as well as some great advice that any business owner should ask. This episode was recorded on June 14th, 2021
Magento Community and the Magento association with Sonja Franz
We interview Sonja Franz ( @sonjarierr )with Integer_net in Germany. We discuss the Magento community, online events, and the Magento association. We talk about diversity in the tech community and what everyone can do to help be more diverse. Even bald white guys. We touch on the new Hyva theme and finish with some ballroom dancing. This episode was recorded on June 10th, 2021
Joseph Maxwell | Developer Training and Education
Welcome to this episode of Talk Commerce, where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce. This week we interview Joseph Maxwell with Swiftotter. We discuss how important it is for a developer to get a certification on an Adobe product. We discuss how everyone on a team should have a certification or accreditation on one Adobe Product. We talk about how agencies need developers to get certified and how merchants need to make sure their agency has certified developers. Joseph introduces his new book “The Art of Ecommerce Debugging” This episode was recorded on May 12th, 2021
Why the Hyva theme matters in Magento with Willem Wigman
We interview Willem Wigman with Hyva, the revolutionary new Magento theme that will change your life! Did I say change your life? Yes, this shows how powerful the Magento community is and continues to be! We talk about the origin of the name, not to spoil anything, but it’s good. We discuss the impact on site speed for merchants and how Google is changing the game for your website, and how it is ranked. If you are a merchant, you need to share this episode. If you are an Agency, you need to get on board with Hyva and get your Devs teams there too.
This episode was recorded on June 9th, 2021
Tadhg Bowe | Magento Solutions Specialists
Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we talk about how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce. This week we interview Tadhg (Tige), Bowe, with Monsoon Consulting. We discuss Magento and the community. Tadhg pronounces Hyva in a different way. We have some notable Irish quotes and a good bit of Craic (That’s fun in Irish) This episode was recorded on May 26th, 2021
Tom Robertshaw | BigCommerce and BigCommerce Apps
Welcome to Talk Commerce. Where we explore how merchants, agencies, and developers experience commerce. This week we interview Tom Robertshaw with Space48 in the United Kingdom. We give a little history on Tom’s e-commerce survey that he started publishing while he was still at University. We get into the ever-growing community on BigCommerce and talk about BigCommerce and BigCommerce Apps. And how could I talk to a Magento Master and not talk a little about Magento. This episode was recorded on May 26th, 2021
