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Adobe Summit 2023, held in March, was mostly about composable commerce. Two announcements are worth your attention: an upgraded API Mesh, and a native Walmart integration for Adobe Commerce.
API Mesh
API Mesh moved on at Summit, with enhanced schema stitching, a better developer experience and expanded API gateway capabilities. The point of it is composing data sources declaratively rather than writing integration code for each one.
The improvements announced:
GraphQL query optimisation reducing latency for complex queries
authentication patterns supporting OAuth, JWT and custom schemes
error handling with developer-friendly debugging tools
rate limiting and caching strategies tuned for commerce workloads
webhooks integration for event-driven architectures
If you are building storefront experiences across web, mobile and other channels, that is integration work you no longer have to do yourself.
Walmart integration
The Walmart announcement addresses a familiar problem: merchants selling through several marketplaces, with inventory and orders managed in none of them properly. The native integration provides:
automated product catalogue synchronisation from Adobe Commerce to Walmart.com
real-time inventory updates, so you stop overselling across channels
order aggregation, bringing Walmart sales into Adobe Commerce order management
pricing and promotion alignment across commerce properties
revenue analytics combining marketplace and direct-to-consumer channels
It needs very little custom development. Enabling Walmart selling becomes a matter of days rather than an engineering project, which changes the calculation for smaller and mid-market merchants in particular.
What this means for you
Two questions. Is custom storefront development on your roadmap? If so, API Mesh shortens it. And is Walmart a meaningful share of your customers? If it is, an out-of-box integration is a far easier case to make than a bespoke one — and if it isn't, ignore it and get on with something that is.