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The AI Sidecar: How to Modernize Legacy Magento Without a “Big Bang” Rewrite

January 16, 2026 | By Jason Barney

You have a Magento 2 monolith. It works. It processes millions in revenue. But it’s heavy, hard to update, and your marketing team is screaming for features that your developers say will take six months to build. Agencies will tell you there is only one solution: The Big Bang Rewrite. “Trash it all,” they say. “Move to Shopify […]

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Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)

January 13, 2026 | By Jason Barney

In January 2026, the digital commerce landscape underwent its most significant shift since the invention of the “Buy Now” button. Google and industry giants like Shopify, Walmart, and Target launched the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP)—the open standard that finally made “agentic commerce” a reality. At Evaporate IT, we’ve always focused on removing the friction that […]