It was announced back in November last year that Magento was being moved under eBay Enterprise. (The photo to the right is Roy Rubin on stage expanding upon this at the 2104 Imagine conference.) Here is my personal perspective on why I think this is a good thing all around. Normal disclaimer, the following is personal […]

A major goal of Magento 2 is to make it even easier to extend and adapt to the needs of merchants wanting a true flexible platform. The service layer work I described in a previous post is a part of this. The service layer helps provide a constrained, well defined API for other modules to call. But there is more being […]

One of the “cool” technologies in Magento 2 is the new service layer. In this post I describe why I think the service layer is going to be one of the key new technologies in Magento 2. Disclaimer: I work with the Magento team, but this post contains personal opinions and perspectives and does not necessarily reflect those of eBay […]

Magento 2, like any significant project, has a set of goals. These were publicly discussed at the recent Magento Imagine 2014 conference. I thought I would summarize them here for those interested and add a bit of a personal perspective on them. Disclaimer: I work with the Magento team, but this post contains personal opinions and perspectives […]