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Introduction A few days ago there was a question on Twitter about using Docker in production instead of development. I was a little intrigued by the question because my experience has been in the exact opposite scenario. I almost never use Docker for development and almost always use it in production. I tweeted my responseContinue Reading “Magento 2 Performance on Docker (a preliminary test)”
With the holiday season coming upon us more quickly than we would like (unless you’re a kid, and many of us are) preparing your site for the holiday season is a required activity. However, there is not a lot of information out there on how to load test your Magento installation well. With that inContinue Reading “Load Testing for Magento”
Validating SLAs (Service Level Agreements) is often part of executing browser tests. With Magium you can now include page timings as part of your test. Say, for example, that part of your SLA is that a page must be rendered in less than 5 seconds. This is done by using the TTFBLoadedLessThan, DOMPageLoadedLessThan or DOMContentLoadedLessThanContinue Reading “Asserting page load times in Magento with Magium”
I am using the mongodb/mongodb library for a project of mine. The API seems fairly different from the old PECL library and it also came with some other, albeit unexpected, baggage. My understanding of the library is that it is intended to be a replacement for the existing PECL library and that it intends to strike aContinue Reading “Excluding fields in the mongodb/mongodb library”
In part 1 we took a look at some of the basics of the Magento EE FPC. We talked about the general structure and flow of the FPC. In this article we are going to take a look at the application states in the FPC. I don’t know if “states” is the official term, butContinue Reading “How to (properly) harness the Magento EE Full Page Cache (part 2 – application states)”
TL;DR The Full Page Cache is one of the most important performance features in Magento EE and very few people know how to use it Containers control your content Processors manage containers Knowing containers and processors gets you 90% of the way to solving #1 With my work with ECG one of the more common things I see areContinue Reading “How to (properly) harness Magento EE’s Full Page Cache (part 1)”
I just wrapped up a Healthcheck for a Magento ECG customer and I ran into an interesting issue. IIRC, the problem wasn’t a client one but rather code that a community extension used. I won’t mention which one. This extension was generating a query that was looking for the maximum minimum price for all products inContinue Reading “Be wary of functions in SQL in Magento, such as MAX(). There may be a better way.”
Update: I have started offering a new load testing service for Magento. Check it out! Load Testing the Magento checkout is, in theory, difficult. Well, not so much difficult as time consuming. It is my personal opinion that most Magento load testing is done either poorly or incompletely. Load testing read-only pages usually means hittingContinue Reading “Load Testing the Magento Checkout with JMeter (and enjoying it)”
*** Personal note: It has been suggested that this may reflect an official Magento position. It does not. I like doing research and I like publishing what I find as long as I find it interesting and it isn’t tied to a customer. So if you’re wondering if this reflects a change in Magento or some kindContinue Reading “Magento, HHVM and the Enterprise Full Page Cache”
Alan Kent asked on Twitter What is your personal favorite HA distributed queue technology? RabbitMQ? Kafka? Redis? ActiveMQ? Why? — Alan Kent (@akent99) February 4, 2015 You may know that I am partial to Redis as a worker queue for Magento. Here are some reasons why. It is stupid simple to set up (meaning nubesContinue Reading “Reasons why Redis is a great option for a worker queue in Magento”
