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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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…
I was giving the Magento Performance and Optimization for System Administrator’s course today and I said something that is either…
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A while back I wrote one post on how the overhead of logging was so minimal that the performance impact…
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One of the things that I have been doing over the past several months has been to write up how…
I am not a fan of NFS for production information. NFS is great for aggregating data from across multiple different…