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Mar 11, 2025
Not every pipeline needs to be triggered by a push or a merge request. Nightly security scans, recurring cleanup jobs or regular dependency updates run best on a time based schedule, regardless of whether anyone actually committed code that day. GitLab's Scheduled Pipelines provide a cron mechanism built directly into the platform for exactly this. This article covers the setup, the cron syntax, working with pipeline variables and why a Scheduled Pipeline is fundamentally different from a classic cronjob on a server.
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Mar 11, 2025
Divide and space between utilities solve a specific problem that gap alone does not cover: visible divider lines between sibling elements and spacing in layout contexts without native flex or grid support. Anyone who understands how divide-x, divide-y, space-x and space-y work internally avoids unnecessary wrapper divs and picks the right tool for each use case.
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Mar 11, 2025
Magento 2 is one of the most resource hungry content management and storefront systems in the PHP ecosystem, which is why generic shared hosting, perfectly adequate for a simple Wordpress site, regularly hits its limits on a production Magento store. Magento hosting needs a deliberately assembled server architecture with several coordinated caching layers, enough compute for PHP-FPM, and a well thought out scaling strategy for traffic spikes such as marketing campaigns or seasonal sales periods. This article places the key requirements and helps decide between self-hosting and managed hosting.
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Mar 11, 2025
PhpStorm scans Docker Compose setups automatically when a project is opened and suggests run configurations for detected services. For simple setups this works remarkably well, but for multi-stage compose hierarchies like the Mark Shust setup for Magento, the automation shows clear limits.
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Mar 11, 2025
Navigation is the backbone of every website, and at the same time the component that reveals whether Tailwind CSS is being used for simple styling tasks or as a complete UI system. This guide shows how to correctly implement the most important Tailwind CSS navigation patterns: with ARIA attributes, keyboard navigation and Alpine.js.
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Mar 11, 2025
Running docker run --memory=512m --cpus=1.5 makes Docker simply write a few values into plain text files under /sys/fs/cgroup. Once you have read those files yourself, resource limits stop looking like Docker magic and start looking like what they really are: kernel mechanics.
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Mar 11, 2025
Redis works well as a simple task queue with the LPUSH/BRPOP pattern, and Streams even deliver delivery guarantees and message history through consumer groups. But both approaches hit limits with complex routing, guaranteed ordering across many consumers, or very high message throughput, where dedicated systems like RabbitMQ or Kafka are the more robust choice.
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Mar 11, 2025
TanStack Query solves the exact problems that plain fetch with useEffect and useState leave open in React Native: race conditions on fast navigation, missing caching, duplicate requests, and no automatic refetch when the app resumes from background. With QueryClient, useQuery, useMutation, NetInfo reconnect handling, and an AsyncStorage persister, the REST integration becomes robust, cached, and offline capable.
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Mar 10, 2025
Passing Magento events to external systems through cron polling wastes real-time capability and puts unnecessary load on the database. This article shows how Magento webhooks can be implemented robustly, transparently and portably across Open Source and Commerce using an observer, a message queue and signed HTTP delivery. The focus is on HMAC signatures, retry strategies and a complete delivery log for production-ready webhook delivery.
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Mar 10, 2025
Not every ALTER TABLE statement costs the same in MySQL. Some changes are pure metadata operations that finish in milliseconds, others copy the entire table in the background and block writes for seconds or minutes. Anyone running hundreds of gigabytes of Magento tables who does not know the difference between ALGORITHM=INSTANT, INPLACE and COPY risks unplanned downtime in the middle of business hours.