TL;DR Migrating the Magento 2 catalog search engine to Smile ElasticSuite will resolve pretty much all the issues you might be experiencing with Magento 2 native ElasticSearch catalog search so…Continue reading
Magento 2 Javascript Bundling with Magepack
Magento 2 PageSpeed (Lighthouse) performance audit results for mobile and desktop are notoriously bad. Imagine you have worked for months on a new Magento 2 eCommerce store, followed best practices…Continue reading
Magento 2.2.X Development and Upgrades
Today (2nd May 2018) Magento released Magento CE 2.2.4. Recently the Magento Devs have been pretty busy pushing out 2.2.x updates and Magento 2 is maturing nicely. I am still…Continue reading
Magento 2 theme blank SASS parent and child setup and installation
With CE 1.9 Magento introduced the SASS stylesheet language to aid frontend development. With Magento 2.x for reasons best known to the developers they switched from SASS to LESS. At the…Continue reading
Docker Magento CE v2.4.x Development Deployment with PHP7.4, Apache2.4, REDIS, VARNISH, RabbitMQ, Scaleable
Installing Magento 2 in a development environment can be time consuming. This is my Magento 2 development deployment for Docker which can be used to quickly create a new Magento…Continue reading
Docker Mono Host Magento 2 Service Scaling and Dynamic Load Balancing with VARNISH
As I started building Docker service container images for Magento 2 CE development I got interested in the concept of dynamic service load balancing on a single host. Having already…Continue reading