DISCLAIMER: This blog is my personal reflection on Meet Magento New York 2022 and the Magento Open Source. It doesn’t represent an official point of view of any organization.

Those who tracked happenings of the Magento OS world, saw the MA’s Open Source task force creation a year ago. This was a foundational step bringing together key parties in an open and honest setting. Regular meetings have ensued. Shortly after the task force launched, Mage OS fork/association was founded, due to a slice of the Magento community feeling a better way forward existed to best ensure innovation. 

A fabulous yacht pulled out of NYC’s Chelsea pier, gracefully slicing through the Hudson River’s choppy waters. A crowd was drinking their morning coffee while taking in the inviting view of the Statue of Liberty in the distance. No, this was not a fancy regatta – this was Meet Magento New York 2022 – the first in-person community-driven Magento conference in the US since Covid-19. Naturally, I couldn’t miss the opportunity to reconnect live and in-person with our community.

If you haven’t heard about MACH, let us elaborate on what it stands for. By searching the internet, you may find that “MACH number (M or Ma) is a dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound.” 

While that MACH is named after Moravian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach, our MACH is from the Information Technologies world :)

With more and more ERP providers releasing their Cloud versions, we wanted to make a list of both cloud, and self-hosted popular ERP’s to Integrate with Magento, briefly describing features for each one.

Most of our readers know that Magento has security, cloud, quality, and custom patches that can be installed to fix particular website issues on Adobe Commerce or Magento Open Source platforms. 

In this post, we’ll speak about the tool released by Adobe to apply quality patches and work with them – Quality Patches Tool (QPT). In addition, we’ll describe how to use QPT on different Magento platforms and the existing best practices.

What is the best Commerce platform to use? To answer this question, you need to know how to differentiate them. Brief example, did you know that there’re SaaS and Open-source eCommerce platforms?

If you run a Magento 2 store, you most probably want as much relevant traffic to your storefront as possible. And organic SEO traffic is one of the gold mines of such traffic sources. So in this post, we gathered the most popular Magento 2 SEO Plugins and Extensions.

Picture this: On Spotify alone, there are more than 2.2 million podcasts published. If you add Google and Apple Podcasts and other platforms to the picture, the numbers are off the charts. The question is, have you tried listening to eCommerce podcasts yet?

With many eCommerce stores coming out almost every day, you need to make sure your eCommerce store has all the features it needs to stand out. It has to have the looks and the hooks to attract new customers and retain the existing ones. This is where top Magento extensions can come in handy- giving your store all the right upgrades to make customers keep wanting for more.

Magento PhpStorm Plugin is an extremely useful plugin for the PhpStorm IDE, the most common working environment for Magento developers. The plugin reduces the time for application development as well as improves its quality.