Fender Engineering

Delivering Dynamic Content — Contentful in Fender Play

Passing the Torch

Prior to taking on the responsibilities of leading a team at Fender, I worked as a software engineer across a variety of industries — entertainment, social networking, financial institutions and ad-tech. Throughout those years I had gained engineering experience as part of a large team and also…

Roll your own AWS Lambda Container

Lambda Functions have a temporary instance storage /tmp with 512 MB to 10GB capacity. But this is ephemeral storage and…

Transitioning to a remote software engineering team

Remote work is nothing new, but the rapid growth of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 spurred many businesses — including Fender Digital — to implement or expand work-from-home programs. Engineers, for whom a large portion of work activities…

Codebase Health Best Practices

The SHOP team in the last year has seen major changes including an entirely new team of developers as well as a reset of our development standards and methods for maintaining codebase health. In this post, co-written by two developers on the SHOP team, we’ll be providing a…

Stacking elements with CSS Grid

A guide to stacking DOM elements with z-index, Grid, and React

QA: The Bridge between Dreams and Reality

Successful QA engineers in today’s fast paced tech world are versatile professionals with a combination of technical and soft business skills. QA is much more than sleuthing out defects and writing bug reports. QA engineers have the last word on when a…

6 tips for best practices in Retool

What is Retool?

The Past, Present, and Future use of SFCC’s OCAPI

Hello there. First of all, what is OCAPI?

It’s SFCC’s API, Open Commerce API (OCAPI), that allows any application to securely access your organization’s SFCC resources for products, orders, baskets, etc… to interpret…