Field Notes on enterprise architecture, applied AI, commerce platforms, operating models, technology strategy, and diligence.https://bitpurity.com/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/the-merchandising-request-is-already-a-message/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/the-merchandising-request-is-already-a-message/Bring storefront marketing and merchandising into Slack with a merchant agent for Salesforce commerce. Discuss the change, approve it and verify the result.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/juniper-stripe-checkout/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/juniper-stripe-checkout/Stripe is integrated into Après Studio's Storefront Next checkout and Juniper AI concierge, keeping the purchase in the storefront and the shopper in control.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/the-website-becomes-the-infrastructure/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/the-website-becomes-the-infrastructure/When shopping starts in search, social, or an AI assistant, commerce needs consistent product data, pricing, inventory, and policy across every channel.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/agents-are-microservices-with-a-friendlier-voice/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/agents-are-microservices-with-a-friendlier-voice/AI agents still need service boundaries, authorization, idempotency, and recovery. A commerce demo shows where conversational orchestration breaks down.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/production-is-already-multi-model/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/production-is-already-multi-model/Code written with different AI models can land in one production system. Govern context, changes, review, and deployment without confusing authorship with runtime.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/no-express-pay-is-a-choice-to-lose-the-sale/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/no-express-pay-is-a-choice-to-lose-the-sale/Apple Pay and express checkout expose the architecture behind a purchase. Fix basket totals, guest checkout, payment recovery, and order handoff together.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/bitpurity-was-always-about-the-code/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/bitpurity-was-always-about-the-code/Why Bitpurity exists, from learning through View Source to AI-assisted development. Clean code still matters when the hard part is understanding what you ship.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/claude-first-commerce-is-a-thing/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/claude-first-commerce-is-a-thing/Juniper integrates Claude into Salesforce Storefront Next for product discovery, comparisons, bag updates and a conversation that stays with the shopper.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/ai-can-build-the-storefront-production-is-the-test/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/ai-can-build-the-storefront-production-is-the-test/I let AI build a real Salesforce storefront. The pages were the easy part. Production is where the experiment became useful.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/storefront-next-wont-save-a-bad-team/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/storefront-next-wont-save-a-bad-team/Storefront Next removes real drag. It also removes a few excuses. The team still has to understand the work.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/composable-is-not-the-same-as-simpler/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/composable-is-not-the-same-as-simpler/Composable can remove a real constraint. It can also mean buying six products and pretending the integration diagram is a plan.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/architecture-diagrams-do-not-show-the-operating-model/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/architecture-diagrams-do-not-show-the-operating-model/The boxes can all be right while the system is still a mess. The missing architecture is usually people, ownership, money, and change.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://bitpurity.com/field-notes/when-keeping-the-platform-is-the-right-decision/https://bitpurity.com/field-notes/when-keeping-the-platform-is-the-right-decision/“The platform is old” tells me almost nothing. Before funding the replacement, show me what is actually broken.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT