Varnish – VCL, cache tagging, ESI, invalidation, DDEV setup
Magento’s built-in Full Page Cache stores pages in files or Redis. It works, but it handles requests inside PHP – nginx and PHP-FPM still have to start for every request. Varnish sits in front of nginx and serves pages from memory without touching PHP. For a shop with traffic that is the difference between a second and milliseconds.
- Published in Magento / Adobe Commerce, Środowiska
Vue.js for the PHP developer – Options API, Composition API, Magento REST communication
As a PHP developer you have probably had some contact with jQuery and maybe a bit of plain JS. Vue.js is the next step – a reactive framework that increasingly appears in e-commerce projects as a frontend layer for headless Magento or as a replacement for the older knockout.js. I show the basics from the perspective of someone who thinks in PHP day to day.
- Published in JavaScript
Elasticsearch in Magento 2 – indexing, debugging queries, custom analyzer for Polish
Since Magento 2.4 Elasticsearch is the only supported search engine – MySQL Search was removed. For many shops it “just works”, but when a client reports that “the search doesn’t find the right products”, the real work begins. I show how Magento indexes data in ES, how to debug queries, and how to extend the index with custom fields.
- Published in Magento / Adobe Commerce
PHP 8.0 preview – union types, named arguments, match, constructor promotion, JIT
PHP 8.0 ma wyjść w listopadzie 2020 i będzie największą zmianą w języku od czasu PHP 7.0. JIT compiler, union types, named arguments, match expression, constructor property promotion – to nie są drobne poprawki. Przeglądam najważniejsze nowości na przykładach i oceniam co realne znaczenie dla codziennego kodu z Magento 2.
- Published in PHP