I was giving the Magento Performance and Optimization for System Administrator’s course today and I said something that is either borderline brilliant, stupid, or common knowledge. What I said was something along the lines
When you get to be my age you start thinking about the future. You start wondering if some of the choices you made when you were younger. You wonder if those choices are going
I was talking with a colleague about my previous blog post on memory utilization in Magento and he noted that I had not taken into account backend tasks. Which he was right about. So
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
A while back I wrote one post on how the overhead of logging was so minimal that the performance impact was well worth the benefits of proper logging. I also wrote another blog post
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
<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
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
I am not a fan of NFS for production information. NFS is great for aggregating data from across multiple different machines, storing deployment files and other such administrative things. Serving static content? No. I
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