Typically a lot of Magento 2 stores are slow to build, some taking up to and over an hour. This becomes a bigger pain point as stores grow and more themes & locales are added. Often optimising build time is often towards the bottom of the priority list. The Magento Static Content Deploy Docs provides a good amount of detail on this subject, and is a good read. Just remember, typically, your pipeline execution time also affects your time to release fixes to critical production issues....

Often when debugging frontend functionality, I find myself reaching for access into Magento Javascript components. To either read the current state or invoke various methods within that component to test return values. But how do we do this? How do we get, lets say, the current quote? It’s quite simple really, we just call require instead of define like we would in a component. Slap a debugger call in the body and now you can play with that component to your hearts content....

There are a handful of guides on how to clean-up old Github Action Artifacts. The issue I have with the ones I’ve seen, is they are really convoluted solutions for such a simple task. I am making an assumption here that you are using the Github CLI tool. If you are not, then your missing out, go give it a go (even just for this task). You can even use the CLI directly within your workflows if you can to run the clean-up as a nightly task etc....

One of my clients have recently seen a surge in TOR traffic with zero conversion from them. And has requested for them to be blocked, since its no point in autoscaling the infrastructure, leading to increased cost, for non converting anonymous traffic. We have a few different ways to block TOR/Onion traffic, firstly we can just click some buttons in cloudflare and problem solved. But thats boring, and does not protect us if we move away from Cloudflare in the future (maybe they’ll deem we are a ’enterprise’ at some point 🙃)....

A simple two line Nginx config update can remove any reference of the polyfill Malware from coming out of your store. What is the Polyfill.io Malware? As you likely have already heard, the polyfill.io domain has been serving malware. And there is still a concerning number of sites that still are including scripts from that domain. Cloudflare and Fastly have both released alternative services that only require a change of domain....

I’ve been sat on this post and POC for CosmicSting (CVE-2024-34102) for a little while, giving time for stores to patch the vulnerability. Chances are, if you still have not applied the patch your store will have been probed and compromised by now since there are a handful of POCs out in the wild. So I highly encourage you to make sure the patch is applied (its simple, a single file diff)....

Flushing Magento 2 cache is simple right? Just click the Orange “Cache Clear” button in the Admin, or run php bin/magento cache:clean from the command line. Speaking to other developers and merchants, this seems to be the way everyone deals with refreshing cached content. Even if its just affecting a single page or product. It does not take a genius to realise flushing the entire Magento cache, means a significantly lower cache hit rate for the short term....

Summary Over the last few years, we’ve noticed an increase in the complexity of spam bots signing up to Magento 2 stores. They used to just spam customer accounts using the same email/email domain likely on ending in .qq.com .ru etc. So it used to be easy to just bulk delete based on the TLD especially for sites that do no ship to China / Russia etc. Whereas the last few years I’m observing them using standard mail providers such as gmail....

PHP-SPX is an free and open source profiling alternative to Blackfire/Tideways etc. The main benefits imo are, its free to use and how simple it is to setup < 60s There is an open discussion within Warden, to install the PHP-SPX profiler into warden core. https://github.com/orgs/wardenenv/discussions/719 In the meantime while we wait for the PR to merge, I’ve created the following shell script to bootstraps the PHP-SPX installation & configuration for the current warden project....

You might find yourself needing to anonymize a database in Warden to either pass off to another developer, or move it forward into ephemeral / staging environments. This is fairly easy to achieve with Smile-SA GDPR Dump. First lets download the resources we need, we will store them in the dev folder as we can exclude this in our deployment pipelines. wget https://github.com/Smile-SA/gdpr-dump/releases/latest/download/gdpr-dump.phar -O dev/gdpr-dump wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Smile-SA/gdpr-dump/main/app/config/example.yaml -O dev/gdpr-dump.yaml chmod +x dev/gdpr-dump Next we can edit the yaml to set our correct Magento version and catch any non core tables we might have followed by running the anonymizer script....