The Partner Paradox: When Platform Support Disappears But Partner Revenue Grows
Last Tuesday, Shopify eliminated their entire partnerships division. Partner managers, ecosystem leads, developer relations — the whole agency support team,
Last Tuesday, Shopify eliminated their entire partnerships division. Partner managers, ecosystem leads, developer relations — the whole agency support team,
You built an intake system. You run weekly triage meetings. Your team follows a clear process for prioritizing work. But
Most teams stay busy without making real progress. Requests arrive from every direction. Slack messages. Urgent emails. Hallway conversations. Everything
You Can’t Optimize What You Don’t Measure You’ve implemented all the optimizations from this series. Infrastructure is solid, caching is
Why Security Matters More at Scale At low traffic, security breaches affect hundreds of users. At enterprise scale, breaches affect
Why Personalization Breaks Everything You’ve optimized caching. Your site serves millions of cached pages instantly to anonymous visitors. Performance is
WordPress-Specific Optimization You’ve optimized infrastructure, caching, and assets. But WordPress itself needs optimization too. At enterprise scale, WordPress configuration details
When Everything Goes Viral Your post hits the front page of Reddit. A celebrity tweets your article. Your product launch
Introduction I can’t camp on my own property. It sounds absurd, but it’s true. A few years ago, I bought
Why Asset Optimization Matters at Scale Your caching is perfect. Your database is optimized. But your pages still load slowly.
Why Your Database Becomes the Bottleneck Even with aggressive caching, your database will eventually become a bottleneck at enterprise scale.
Why Caching Is the Most Critical Layer If you implement only one thing from this entire series, make it caching.