Creating a module in Magento 2
Note This article is 4 years old (as I’m writing this). This information is probably out of date. This is the first of what I expect will be several blog posts on Magento 2
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How much memory does Magento use?
So, I was teaching the Magento Performance for System Administrators class the other day. I’ve delivered the class several times but this is the first time that somebody asked me “How much memory does
How much does logging affect performance?
So, I was having a discussion with a person I respect about logging and they noted that often logging poses a prohibitive cost from a performance perspective. This seemed a little odd to me and
Google finally acknowledges that PHP exists
I read an article today about how PHP is exploding on Google App Engine. How is it that one of the most despised programming languages in the word is running (as Google claims) up
How Magento configuration merges work
A few days ago I wrote a blog post on how configuration works in Magento. While it was fairly comprehensive it missed out on one very important piece of information; how the configuration file
Magento Performance on PHP 5.3, 5.4 and 5.5RC3
<update>Magento 1 now supports PHP 5.4</update> I woke up this morning with a burning desire to do load tests. Actually, I woke up with a burning desire to not do the same thing I
How configuration works in Magento
One of the things that I have been doing over the past several months has been to write up how Magento works on the inside. These have primarily been for my own benefit, but
EAV Properties for Magento
The only thing I hate more than bad code completion is no code completion. When working with PHP arrays for configuration there are often options that you need to remember to properly configure the
No-.htaccess httpd.conf file for Magento
A couple of days ago I wrote a blog post on how why you should not use .htaccess files, or AllowOverride != All, on a production web server. What you should do is place
Don’t modify index.php in Magento for multi-store configs
unless you really, really have to. I did some quick Googling on this and found that a number of places recommend making changes to index.php. In my humble opinion it is better to leave