Earlier this week security researchers disclosed a SSL/TLS vulnerability dubbed the FREAK - “Factoring attack on RSA Export Keys” - attack. This flaw enables an attacker to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack between vulnerable clients and servers, allowing him or her to [...]
We are happy to announce that Spark::red is an official sponsor for Oracle Industry Connect that will take place in Washington DC on March, 25-26. This year's conference will bring together over 1,500 executives with nearly a third of them [...]
I’ve been eyeing up the ATG Commerce Reference Store’s native iOS app ever since it was added with Commerce Reference Store (CRS) 10. It’s not too bad, and proves the point that Oracle Commerce/ATG can be ported into mobile environments. [...]
The Commerce Reference Store (CRS) is an important part of Oracle Commerce/ATG because it is a fully functional implementation that is rich in features, and a reference for how to do things for many projects. I originally wrote a blog [...]
Build-A-Bear Workshop® is a global interactive entertainment retailer with nearly 400 stores all over the world with an engaging commerce-based website. Its website experienced occasional outages and slowness with the previous managed hosting provider that impacted the retailer’s conversion rate. [...]
ATG/Oracle Commerce modules are simply functional parts of an application that have been given their own organization and identifier. With a large e-commerce project, it might be split into the following modules: Storefront (primarily jsps and config only) Mobile (primarily [...]
IBM’s new report on the performance of VM and Linux Containers from July 21, 2014, while primarily demonstrating the relative performance advantages of Linux Containers (such as Docker), contains a great deal of current performance information on VMs that is [...]
The only PayPal-Certified Oracle Commerce Integration Module saves retailers weeks on website development and tens of thousands of dollars in associated costs. Spark::red ATG PayPal Module is the only PayPal certified integration for Oracle Commerce and reduces the time and [...]
ATG repositories provide a rich way to organize and query data from multiple sources. ATG developers should know ATG repositories inside and out because they are such a core part of ATG Commerce. While learning ATG, I found querying ATG [...]
While New Relic has already established itself as a leading provider of web performance monitoring tools, their mobile app monitoring SaaS adds new layers of insight for its customers. An ability to quickly identify problems in the mobile app makes [...]