Magento and WooCommerce engineering: catalog imports, request-level performance debugging and store infrastructure.
16 posts
Black Friday 2026 falls on 27 November, with Cyber Monday on 30 November. This checklist covers what to prepare now - performance, checkout, tracking, marketing, support and a code freeze - so your store sells instead of crashes.
Commerce Engineering 4 min read
Shopify handles hosting and CDN, so why is your store still slow? Usually apps, heavy themes, images and scripts. Here are 15 practical fixes to make your Shopify store faster.
Commerce Engineering 4 min read
Products missing from search, reindex failures or "No alive nodes found in your cluster"? Here is how to diagnose and fix the most common OpenSearch and Elasticsearch problems in Magento 2.
Commerce Engineering 4 min read
What Hyvä Checkout changes on a Magento 2 store, how PostNL, DHL and payment modules integrate, and when keeping the Luma checkout is the smarter call.
Commerce Engineering 9 min read
Thinking of moving from WooCommerce to Shopify? Here is how to plan the migration, move products, customers and orders, keep your SEO with redirects and launch without surprises.
Commerce Engineering 4 min read
Varnish can make Magento 2 pages load in milliseconds, if it is configured well. This guide covers setup, the VCL, SSL termination, hit rate, purging and common errors like 503 Backend fetch failed.
Commerce Engineering 5 min read
Upgrading Magento 2 does not have to be scary. This step-by-step guide covers planning, compatibility checks, Composer commands, testing and rollback, so your store stays secure and stable.
Commerce Engineering 4 min read
A slow WooCommerce store loses sales and rankings. These 20 fixes cover the real causes, from hosting and object caching to autoloaded options, cart fragments and slow admin pages.
Commerce Engineering 5 min read
Every bin/magento command you need day to day, grouped by task, with examples: cache, indexers, deployment, static content, modules, cron, admin users and troubleshooting.
Commerce Engineering 4 min read
There is no best e-commerce platform, only the best fit for your catalog, team and growth plans. Here is an honest comparison of WooCommerce, Shopify and Magento from someone who works with all three.
Commerce Engineering 4 min read
Moving a Magento 2 store from Luma to Hyvä is one of the most effective performance upgrades you can make. Here is what it really involves, what drives the cost and how to plan it without surprises.
Commerce Engineering 5 min read
A slow Magento 2 store is rarely one big problem. It is usually several small ones stacked together. Here are the 12 causes I find most often and how to fix each.
Commerce Engineering 6 min read
