The logging system comes super handy in Magento development. Developers use it as a go-to tool for code debugging. There is a reduced chance of encountering a raw Magento 2 internal server error without handling it via Magento 2 logging, compared to Magento 1.

Log files show us how the store works, reveal pesky issues under the hood, and even snitch on the functions that aren’t pulling their weight. In this article, we will describe the logging system in Magento 2 and how it differs from Magento 1.

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 of MACH, allow us to 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 :)

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?

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.

With Magento Community Engineering signed off and now pressing ahead with Magento 2.5, Adobe released Magento Commerce and Open Source 2.4.2. This latest release is powerful if you aim to improve your Magento performance. It has numerous security fixes, performance improvements, and additional features. The Atwix team studied up on all the changes and has unpacked into small logical pieces for you. Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy Magento 2.4.2 Release Overview!

Quality Assurance is a crucial part of any development process before deployment. It is important to be able to find new types of bugs, which are often quite unpredictable; it’s better to prevent the issue than to solve it. Better preventing the issue than solving it. For that, there is a great tool – Exploratory Testing.

What is Exploratory Testing? Why do I need it and how will Exploratory Testing help me? This article will answer these questions no matter what your role is – QA Engineer, Developer, Designer, or Business Analyst.

We work closely with merchants from various industries around the world. When it comes to choosing a hosting platform, it turns out they have much in common. Namely, the need to carefully think through business requirements and customer experiences as they select the right hosting solution.

General availability for Magento 2.3.5 was on April 28. This release introduced new security and performance improvements. Like any patch release, if you want to improve your Magento performance, it’s recommended that you update to the latest version of the Magento application at your earliest convenience to apply not only functional enhancements but, most importantly, all the recent security fixes. To help you plan and budget software updates, let’s first clarify types of Magento code releases.