Reasons why Redis is a great option for a worker queue in Magento
Alan Kent asked on Twitter What is your personal favorite HA distributed queue technology? RabbitMQ? Kafka? Redis? ActiveMQ? Why? —…
Category: Performance
(New(ish)) Indexing in Magento or “The wonderful world of materialized views”
The Wonderful World of Materialized Views (or, Why Indexing in Magento 1.13 Is So Much Faster) When Magento Enterprise 1.13…
Testing Magento with random URLs in JMeter
One of the things that I think is important to do in your testing is to introduce some level of…
JMeter test script for layered navigation
I’ve been doing a lot testing with JMeter lately for Magento. I really do like it (Magento and JMeter). It…
4 charts that are guaranteed to make you a better performance detective
I was giving the Magento Performance and Optimization for System Administrator’s course today and I said something that is either…
Performance of Apache 2.4 with the event MPM compared to Nginx
I wrote a little while ago about how, for running PHP, Nginx was not faster than Apache. At first I…
What is Apdex?
Ever since I started using New Relic I’ve been seeing a number for Apdex. Given that whenever I see a…
More – The file system is slow
A while back I wrote one post on how the overhead of logging was so minimal that the performance impact…
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…
Testing GlusterFS for Magento
I am not a fan of NFS for production information. NFS is great for aggregating data from across multiple different…