Category Adventcalendar

Dec
17
2018

Türchen 17: OpenMage and the Time after M1 EOL

As you probably have already heard, the eol (End of life) for “Magento 1” is set to June 2020. (as announced here: https://magento.com/blog/magento-news/supporting-magento-1-through-june-2020 ) Already some time ago the OpenMage Project was started, to improve the bugfix situation for Magento 1, as even when a fix was already provided, they were often not integrated into […]

Dec
7
2018

Türchen 8: Split off requests to micro services

Magento and additional Microservices: What a dream team! We started as probably many of you also did: with Magento and some additional extensions to add missing features and bring value to the customer. Over time it became more and more and luckily the business flourishing. By this we encountered areas in which Magento is well […]

Dec
15
2017

Türchen 15: Magento Performance Monitoring with Grafana dashboards and alerts

So it’s almost Christmas, nearly a week to go. So in the spirit op Christmas I want to share something with you. People how know me know I love speed. Not the drugs you silly ;-). No, I love the speed of acceleration, the faster the better. That’s why I am a “Speed Junky”. In […]

Dec
3
2017

Türchen 3: How an ORM makes data access easy from the outside

Nearly everybody that has a somewhat bigger installation knows this problem: We need to get our product/customer/order/whatever data into this other system  from this other system. How can we do it? For years my first idea was to bring up a Magento Extension that handles this. And then the same data has to go somewhere […]

Dec
2
2017

Türchen 2: Hackathons, organizers point of view

When I started to organize my first hackathon for firegento, I was looking for a checklist, a how-to or a tipps & tricks, like you find them for weddings or festivals, in order to have it a little bit easier and to become confident. And now a couple of hackathons later, I would like to […]

Dec
1
2017

Türchen 1: To earn more money, we need faster shops – Lizards and Pumpkins (?&?)

Every year, we had an adventcalendar on webguys.de. Checkout the posts from the last years 2016, 2014 and 2013. Due to the fact that webguys.de is a blog by three German developers and this started in the German community, many of the posts are in German. But more and more of the new posts are in English, […]