It’s interesting to know how Magento 2 works “under the hood” not only for developers but for all the people, who work with the platform. Not everyone has a possibility to dig in the code deeply enough in order to check the details. In this post we will put Magento 2 request flow in layman’s terms.

One of the most powerful and commonly used technique for extending the standard logic in Magento is an event system. We have described this system in details in our previous article. It’s really useful for developers to know how the event system works. Moreover, choosing the most suitable event for a custom logic implementation is also very important part in development – so, in this article, we are going to review a list of the framework-level events that help understand which event will be perfect to observe in Magento 2.

Working with data in Magento is based on three principles: models, resource models and collections. There are different ways and methods to do same thing and we would like to shed some light on the differences.