object-fit decides whether an image gets stretched, cropped, or shown unchanged inside its container, while object-position sets the focal point of that crop. Together they replace server-side image cropping for most layout cases, and unlike background-size, they still work with real img and video elements, including alt text and loading optimizations.
Many Magento problems look at first glance like data or indexer issues, but are actually cron problems. Teams that plan and observe Magento 2 cron jobs properly prevent silent failures in emails, reindexing, synchronizations and imports.
Magento 2 cron jobs are the backbone of many background processes. Reindexing, email delivery, newsletters, price rules, export runs, scheduled updates, cleanup jobs and integrations all rely on tasks being executed regularly and reliably. When cron fails, the system
A backup is only a backup once it can actually be restored. We show how a resilient backup strategy and disaster recovery work together for Magento 2: RTO and RPO as the governing metrics, automation, offsite storage and regular restore drills.
Enforcing PSR-12 without blocking every pull request with comments about indentation and brace placement requires automation instead of good intentions. PHP_CodeSniffer and PHP-CS-Fixer, combined with pre-commit hooks and a CI pipeline, permanently end formatting discussions in review, even in grown legacy projects.
Video transcripts are usually treated as an accessibility checkbox, yet their biggest value lies elsewhere: they make video content readable for search engines and AI systems, supply raw material for snippets, and increase the likelihood that content gets cited in AI-generated answers.
A PWA with Vue and Vite turns an existing web application into an installable, offline capable app, without app store review and without a separate native codebase. With vite-plugin-pwa, service worker, web app manifest, and caching strategies can be configured largely automated, while update handling and offline behavior get tailored specifically to the application at hand.
Manually extracting JSON data from request arrays and mapping it into PHP objects is error-prone and does not scale. The Symfony Serializer normalizes objects into JSON and denormalizes JSON into type-safe PHP DTOs, with serialization groups, custom normalizers and constructor promotion.
Evaluating architecture tradeoffs with Claude means walking every decision through concrete criteria like complexity, latency, operational effort and team size, instead of relying on the last conference slide read. Claude structures the weighing between monolith and microservices, synchronous and asynchronous, or SQL and NoSQL based on the actual project situation.
Abstract classes combine a binding contract with shared implementation, making them the right tool whenever several classes need to share the same base logic. This article covers the exact syntax, the difference from plain interfaces using a Repository base class as an example, and explains why TypeScript fully erases the abstraction at compile time, while PHP actually enforces it at runtime.
Any agency maintaining custom Magento 2 modules across several client projects cannot avoid a private Composer repository. Instead of distributing modules manually via FTP or a zip file, a private Composer repository makes them installable through composer require, versioned through git tags and with full dependency resolution against magento/framework. This article shows how to build a solid distribution infrastructure, from the repositories configuration through a self hosted Satis instance to a secured CI pipeline.