What is the first event fired in Magento?
controller_front_init_before Technically, it’s resource_get_tablename, but the first usable event is controller_front_init_before. But this is also a bit of a trick…
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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…
I’m actually really excited about Hack and HHVM
When you get to be my age you start thinking about the future. You start wondering if some of the…
Magento memory utilization for backend work
I was talking with a colleague about my previous blog post on memory utilization in Magento and he noted that…
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…
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 Magento configuration merges work
A few days ago I wrote a blog post on how configuration works in Magento. While it was fairly comprehensive…
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,…
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…
Testing GlusterFS for Magento
I am not a fan of NFS for production information. NFS is great for aggregating data from across multiple different…