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I deal with ecom a lot at work, in which we build out ecomm systems for large(er) companies.

Just about everything is going to AEM with elastic path/ some other ecomm apis and headless frontends (mostly React, namely NextJS, some unfortunately on Gatsby).

I'm not sure what is happening with all the old Magento platforms since Adobe took it over, but I don't think we do much work in Magento any more.

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I don't think Adobe knows either. Lots of people are still on Magento 2, and lots of big customers with a LOT of invested money into the platform, however the amount of people jumping into Magento is shrinking as the use case is getting attacked on both ends, on the cost for SMB and the benefits for large companies.

Having talked to adobe reps a bunch it's also they have no idea how things work and how all their tech fits together as Adobe continues to gobble up disparate technologies.

I worked at Magento when we were acquired by Adobe. No one at Adobe knows how all the tech fits together. The guy who championed the acquisition (Brad Rencher) left the company 6 months after that. Then w/ the acquisition of Marketo, it was the same thing all over again. My takeaway is that you coerce an organization to acquire a company you recommend so that you can gain some sort of social capital and then convert it into your next (higher level) gig

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