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Archive: January 2026
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Jan 28, 2026
The debate between GraphQL and REST is often framed as an either-or choice, but in practice the two protocols do not have to be mutually exclusive. REST remains the pragmatic choice for simple CRUD resources and webhooks, while GraphQL earns its place on complex, aggregating read operations in the frontend. This article shows what a hybrid architecture with shared backend logic looks like in practice, what it costs the team in tooling and coordination, and when the added complexity simply is not worth it.
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Jan 28, 2026
The Visual Merchandiser is a Commerce feature, but category merchandising rules can be technically rebuilt in Magento Open Source as well. Coupling product order to stock level, margin and sales figures requires understanding position values, plugin points on the product collection, and the effect on the catalog index.
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Jan 28, 2026
A public API without rate limiting is an open invitation for abuse. Token bucket and sliding window algorithms cap the request load per client, API keys enable differentiated limits, and abuse prevention patterns detect and block malicious behavior before it hits the infrastructure.
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Jan 28, 2026
Every session_start() call, every TLS connection, and every CSRF token generated in PHP needs random bytes from the operating system. If the kernel's collected entropy is insufficient, the affected calls block until enough random data is available, an effect that occurs especially often on virtual machines and in containers, showing up as hard to explain, sporadic latency spikes.
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Jan 27, 2026
Custom URL schemes can be claimed by any app on the device, which opens the door to hijacking. iOS Universal Links and Android App Links solve this with a cryptographically verified domain, but they demand correct configuration on both the server and the app side. This article walks through setting up React Native deep linking properly, wiring it into React Navigation, and testing it reliably.
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Jan 27, 2026
A single img tag with a fixed width barely covers any modern layout. Here's how to generate srcset and sizes correctly in a Hyvä theme, when a picture element is genuinely needed for art direction, and how both interact with Magento's image resize cache.
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Jan 27, 2026
WebAssembly compiles languages like Rust or C into near-native code that runs in the browser and can noticeably speed up compute-heavy tasks. This article covers when the switch is genuinely worth it, where plain JavaScript still wins, and what a practical image-processing implementation looks like.
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Jan 27, 2026
With the light-dark() function, a light and a dark mode color value can be specified in a single declaration, instead of maintaining two separate prefers-color-scheme blocks. The browser automatically picks whichever of the two values applies based on the currently active color-scheme, both for system preference and for a manual toggle that overrides it.
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Jan 27, 2026
Several gigabytes of swap usage while free -h simultaneously reports plenty of free memory looks paradoxical, but is usually proactive, intentional kernel behavior rather than a fault. This guide shows how to use Pressure Stall Information, vmstat, and smaps to distinguish harmless from actually problematic swapping, what role swappiness really plays, and when MySQL buffer pool configuration is the actual cause.