fidzu : web

22 Jul 2026 5:59pm GMT

Some downtime during a platform migration is inevitable. Data, sometimes huge amounts of data, has to be transferred. Domain records need to be updated. The final checklist before launching is extensive.

However, any reputable agency will minimize this inevitable downtime, because every hour an eCommerce site is offline costs money. A migration that drags on for days is unacceptable, causing a direct hit to revenue and customer trust.

We've migrated eCommerce operations ranging from several thousand orders to several million, with product catalogs spanning a few hundred to several hundred thousand SKUs and customer records well into the hundreds of thousands. Through that work, we've developed a set of practices that consistently keep actual site downtime to a few hours, even on the most complex projects.

Here's how to minimize your downtime.

Start migration planning as soon as the architecture is set

When do you start thinking about data migration? As soon as the architecture is nailed down. As soon as entities and fields are defined, old data stores can be mapped to the new database.

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22 Jul 2026 2:54pm GMT

I kept running into the same small frustration. My site has its own search, but when I ask an AI agent whether I have written about a topic before, it searches Google instead of using my site's search directly. As a result, it often misses relevant posts that Google has not indexed.

At the same time, the web is gaining a new audience. In addition to people visiting pages, AI agents increasingly access a site's knowledge and tools directly.

That combination led me to add support for /.well-known/api-catalog to my site. A request to https://dri.es/.well-known/api-catalog currently returns:

{
  "linkset": [
    {
      "anchor": "https://dri.es/search/json",
      "service-desc": [
        {
          "href": "https://dri.es/openapi.json",
          "type": "application/openapi+json"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

RFC 9727, an IETF Proposed Standard, defines /.well-known/api-catalog as a predictable location for discovering a site's public APIs.

The catalog is a small JSON document written in the Linkset format. It advertises my search endpoint and, in turn, links to an OpenAPI document that tells software how to use it.

The JSON endpoint at /search/json predates the catalog and powers my site's search. However, it was not documented or easy for software to discover. The catalog now makes it explicit.

The OpenAPI document at https://dri.es/openapi.json tells AI agents exactly how to call the endpoint and interpret the results. It removes the guesswork, reducing the time and tokens agents would otherwise spend figuring out how the API works.

In short, the API catalog announces that my search API exists, while the OpenAPI document explains how to use it. An agent can start with just my domain, check /.well-known/api-catalog, follow the link to the OpenAPI document, and learn how to search dri.es directly.

The feature has been live for a few months, but I am only now writing about it. In the meantime, I have logged every request to /.well-known/api-catalog and /openapi.json. The result so far: zero AI agents have used it.

I found the same problem when I analyzed llms.txt usage: the AI crawlers it was meant for never use it, so I never bothered implementing it.

Unlike llms.txt, the API catalog solves a problem I have, and I do not need to wait for industry adoption. I recently created an Agent Skill, a SKILL.md file that directs my agents to check the catalog and use my site's search API whenever they need information from dri.es.

My agents now search dri.es directly and find posts that Google misses. And if any AI agent adopts API catalog discovery, my site is ready.

22 Jul 2026 2:22pm GMT

At the European Identity and Cloud Conference (EIC 2026) in Berlin, we explored how Threat Modeling with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® can help uncover security, privacy, and human-rights threats in age-based content restriction systems. Starting from an Issuer-Holder-Verifier model, participants built harms such as exclusion, surveillance, profiling, and correlation, then mapped them back to flows, actors, and assumptions. The exercise showed how compliance choices can become Web architecture.

20 Jul 2026 9:23am GMT

On 2 July 2026 , the W3C Advisory Board organised a meetup around the web and web standards. It featured three talks and had time to mingle.

15 Jul 2026 3:29pm GMT

This blog post is about incremental improvements by W3C's IT/Systems Operations Team to how W3C member representatives use the W3C website to nominate, change, and remove the people who participate in W3C groups on behalf of their organization.

06 Jul 2026 1:05pm GMT

On January 14, 2006, John Resig introduced a JavaScript library called jQuery at BarCamp in New York City. Now, 20 years later, the jQuery team is happy to announce the final release of jQuery 4.0.0. After a long development cycle and several pre-releases, jQuery 4.0.0 brings many improvements and modernizations. It is the first major … Continue reading →

18 Jan 2026 12:29am GMT

It's here! Almost. jQuery 4.0.0-rc.1 is now available. It's our way of saying, "we think this is ready; now poke it with many sticks". If nothing is found that requires a second release candidate, jQuery 4.0.0 final will follow. Please try out this release and let us know if you encounter any issues. A 4.0 … Continue reading →

11 Aug 2025 5:35pm GMT

Last February, we released the first beta of jQuery 4.0.0. We're now ready to release a second, and we expect a release candidate to come soon™. This release comes with a major rewrite to jQuery's testing infrastructure, which removed all deprecated or under-supported dependencies. But the main change that warranted a second beta was a … Continue reading →

17 Jul 2024 2:03pm GMT

When it comes to crafting an article, the headline is crucial for grabbing the reader's attention and enticing them to read further. In this post, I'll explore the 7 types of article headlines and provide examples for each using the subjects of product management, user experience design, and search engine optimization. 1. The Know-it-All The […]

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29 May 2023 10:20pm GMT

Product management is one of the most exciting and rewarding careers in the tech world. But it's also one of the most misunderstood and misrepresented. There are many myths and misconceptions that cloud the reality of what product managers do, how they do it, and what skills they need to succeed. In this blog post, […]

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09 Apr 2023 5:28pm GMT

The role of a product manager is crucial to the success of any product. They are responsible for managing the entire product life cycle, from conceptualization to launch and beyond. A product manager must possess a unique blend of skills and qualities to be effective in their role. Strong strategic thinking A product manager must […]

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11 Dec 2022 4:43pm GMT

Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.

Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!

On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.

01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT

1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:

1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.

2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.

3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?

4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...

5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!

I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!

01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT

Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...

01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT