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Magento
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Feb 2, 2026
A single Redis instance for cache, session and full page cache without clean database separation is one of the most underrated sources of operational risk in Magento setups. This article explains why dedicated database indexes per role prevent key collisions, when separate Redis instances make sense, and how eviction policy can be configured differently depending on the role.
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Feb 2, 2026
Magento 2 poses particular challenges for PhpStorm: thousands of generated classes, a huge vendor/ tree, PHPUnit tests across multiple layers, and phtml templates with mixed PHP/HTML syntax. The right configuration makes the difference between a sluggish IDE and a precise development environment.
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Feb 2, 2026
An external fulfillment provider takes over storage, picking and shipping, but without a clean fulfillment integration, gaps appear in stock, tracking and returns. This guide shows how order export, stock and shipment status reliably work together between Magento and the fulfillment provider.
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Feb 1, 2026
Running Static Content Deployment on the production server means long maintenance windows, server-dependent build results, and unpredictable runtimes. The right place for SCD is the CI build job, paired with the Hyva Tailwind build, setup:di:compile, and pub/static as a controlled artifact that can be deployed to any server.
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Jan 31, 2026
Apollo Federation v2, schema stitching and the Backend for Frontend pattern all solve the same underlying problem: coordinating distributed GraphQL data access. Which pattern fits when depends on team size, ownership boundaries and runtime requirements.
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Jan 31, 2026
Clicking Import manually in the admin area works fine for one-off data migrations, but for recurring supplier feeds or daily stock syncs it's an operational risk: if someone forgets to click, data quietly goes stale and nobody notices. Driving Magento's import model programmatically from a custom cron job gets you automation, error evaluation, and notification in one package, with no third-party extension required.
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Jan 30, 2026
Anyone adding a custom order status to Magento 2 for the first time almost always trips over the same confusion: order state and order status are two separate layers, and skipping past that distinction produces statuses that cannot be filtered in the admin grid or that trigger email notifications nobody expected. This article explains the structure of Magento's order workflow system in detail and shows how to correctly register a new status, assign it to a state, and hook it into existing status transitions and notification paths.
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Jan 30, 2026
The checkout is the highest-value path in any Magento store and, at the same time, the most fragile, because frontend state, asynchronous AJAX calls, and external payment APIs all converge there. This article shows how to test cart, shipping methods, payment methods, and order confirmation end-to-end with Cypress and Playwright, reliably simulate payment gateways in sandbox mode, and cleanly separate guest and logged-in checkout paths.
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Jan 30, 2026
Magento's architecture calls itself MVC, but it works in a fundamentally different way. Request flow, FrontController, layout XML as a fourth layer, block system and ViewModel: fully explained.
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Jan 29, 2026
Reproducible development environments are not a luxury, they are a prerequisite for stable teams and reliable CI results. Dev Containers and Docker-based workspaces in PhpStorm combine containerized environments with full IDE comfort: autocompletion, navigation, debugging and refactoring run inside the container, while the editor stays local.