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Sep 1, 2025
Log tables like report_event, customer_visitor, and catalog_compare_item log visitor behavior and grow with every page view, often faster than any other table group in the store. Once you configure built-in log cleaning correctly and build custom scripts for tables without automatic cleanup, you keep the database lean without giving up important reporting data.
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Aug 31, 2025
Platform selection for an e-commerce system is one of the most consequential decisions in a company's entire digitalization process, because a chosen system determines cost, development speed, and technical flexibility for years. Unlike many other IT decisions, a wrong platform choice can only be corrected with considerable migration effort, which is why a thorough, criteria based evaluation upfront pays off. This article places the key evaluation criteria and compares Magento and Adobe Commerce against the common alternatives Shopware, Shopify, and custom development.
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Aug 26, 2025
The free Magento Security Scan Tool automatically checks publicly reachable stores for known vulnerabilities, risky file permissions, and accidentally exposed sensitive files such as .git or .env files. This article shows how to register a store correctly, set up recurring scans, prioritize findings properly, and understand why the tool never replaces a real penetration test.
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Aug 25, 2025
A Magento upgrade that suddenly tears apart your own modules almost always has the same root cause: somewhere in the code, a class was extended or overridden that Adobe never promised as a stable interface. Whoever understands what the @api tag means and why plugins are the safe extension method builds modules that survive Magento updates without nasty surprises.
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Aug 24, 2025
Zero downtime deployments do not fail because of the pipeline, they fail because of a badly prepared server structure. If shared directories and symlinks are not set up correctly, every release either loses media files or loses the configuration.
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Aug 23, 2025
Anyone who carries Luma layout habits unreflected into a Hyvä theme drags along jsLayout leftovers, RequireJS references and unnecessary block classes. Hyvä layout XML still uses the regular Magento schema, but replaces Luma's Knockout-heavy conventions with lean block, template and view model combinations.
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Aug 22, 2025
A Magento stack trace often looks impenetrable, especially once several modules and plugins are chained together. Claude can suggest several plausible causes from an exception log and a code excerpt within seconds, giving a noticeably faster first read. What still matters is confirming every hypothesis with real debugging, breakpoints and var_dump, before a fix gets committed.
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Aug 19, 2025
A Hyvä migration is not a simple theme update, it is a structured project with an audit, a compatibility check, a checkout rebuild and a staged rollout. Anyone who knows the four phases and plans for the typical pitfalls early gets from a Knockout.js heavy Luma theme to a noticeably faster, more maintainable Hyvä frontend, without putting live shop operations at risk during the switch.
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Aug 19, 2025
Starting every new module by hand with registration.php, module.xml and the first class wastes time and produces inconsistent structures. A good boilerplate generator produces a skeleton in seconds that follows team conventions and Magento best practices from the start.