Gary Mort  / 
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Magento Caching – Troubleshooting and Best Practices

In Magento, full page caching improves load speed response time on your website. A cached page will be stored after one visit or pre-generated and stored. A cached page takes much less time to open in a browser. Fast load speed is crucial to your customers’ shopping experience, and customers will commonly abandon stores that […]

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Gary Mort  / 
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Magento Coding Standards and Code Review in The Real World

“Code review is systematic examination … of computer source code. It is intended to find mistakes overlooked in the initial development phase, improving the overall quality of software.” Code review, in summary, is a collaborative process between the developer who writes the code and the developers who review the code to ensure that new code […]

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Gary Mort  / 
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How to handle Magento maintenance on logs, caches, and indexes.

There is a lot of confusion of how to run regular maintenance on logs, caches, and indexes in Magento. Most of it stems from applying maxims from the past to today.  In the past, server storage space was at a premium – and offsite storage required tape backups to handle the quantity of data.  Which […]

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Gary Mort  / 
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Using Git for Magento Website Maintenance

Maintaining active Magento websites using Git There are many articles on using Git for Magento – however, these articles focus on using Git as a development tool. While this is an extremely good programming practice, it does not address website maintenance. At best, it can be used as one part of a maintenance process. At […]

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