Posts tagged ‘import’

5 posts · earliest: September 2026 · latest: October 2026

• October 28, 2026: What Mattered More Than the API. Part 5: Process Uptime and the Benchmark

  A long-running app imported 7x slower than a freshly restarted one, the finding that beat every API optimization, plus runnable benchmark jobs.

• October 21, 2026: The Low-Level API Is Not Automatically Fast. Part 4: Counting Round Trips

  The low-level Commerce DTO API is not automatically fast: counting the database round trips per imported row, and four fixes I would apply first.

• October 16, 2026: Surviving a Dirty Feed. Part 3: Error Handling and Event Batching

  Committing a 250,000-row Optimizely catalog import row by row, returning a per-row failure report, and coalescing catalog events into one per batch.

• October 07, 2026: Writing a Catalog Entry the Low-Level Way. Part 2: The Writer

  Upserting a catalog entry through CatalogContext and MetaDataPlus: ContentGuid, the meta class seam, response groups, and a create path that rolls back.

• September 30, 2026: Bulk Catalog Import in Optimizely Commerce. Part 1: Why the DTO API

  Why I use the DTO API instead of IContentRepository for bulk catalog writes in Optimizely Commerce: measured 2.7-3.3x faster, and what it costs you.