We recently rebuilt our merchant-facing help and documentation site to make it easier to update, and easier to use. User-facing documentation is an important element of good software. Sure, good software should always be as easy to use as possible, but making software perfectly intuitive is challenging when building something

In his 2015 shareholder letter, Jeff Bezos talks about two types of decisions - those that are best represented as one-way doors, and those that are more like two-way doors. This thought process about how reversible a decision is applies anywhere in business, and it's no different when

Corso recently released our analytics AI feature under a beta tag, and as is our tradition we wanted to show how we built it. AI can feel like magic, even to experienced developers. And a lot of it really is magic once you peel back enough layers. Luckily though, harnessing

Modern data infrastructure has become quite complex. Companies need to ingest data from multiple sources, store it, process it, and otherwise make it useful. To do so they lean on data architects, data engineers, data scientists, and data analysts to wrangle everything together. These different roles work with data warehouses,

One of the most valuable features of a returns, exchanges, and warranties platform is automations. When automations are implemented throughout a platform, it allows merchants to have fine-grained control over the entire lifecycle of a claim. From the moment a customer lands on a returns page, the brand gets to

At Corso, we are big fans of PostgreSQL. We are hardly alone in this, as its various advantages are well understood. If you need a general-use server-based relational database and don't have requirements that push you towards any particular technology, most experienced developers and administrators will tell you

Full stack developers are highly sought after in the software engineering world, for good reason. Being able to build a user-facing application while simultaneously keeping APIs, business logic, and databases working together is a valuable and hard to find set of skills. Equally valuable is the full stack designer. You

Choosing a technology can be a difficult, stressful, time-consuming process. It's easy to find yourself in complete analysis paralysis, spending tons of time and money ensuring that your decision is the correct one. Let's say you need to choose a database for your new system. Just

We believe that good software is built by companies and teams where incentives are aligned to produce value. We strive for this at Corso with 3 guiding principles: Real value must be delivered as early as possible in the product development process A product is successful when it provides value