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Cloudflare Outage November 2025 - Retrospective

Cloudflare accidentally took half the internet down for half a day, right before Black Friday. What can we learn from this, and how can we engineer more resilient infrastructure to survive similar outages in the future?

Check if your Magento site is safe from Session Reaper (CVE-2025-54236)

How to guide on checking if your Magento 2 store is safe from the Session Reaper (CVE-2025-54236) exploit. And guidance on how to patch and secure your site if it is not.

How to efficiently patch Magento 2 deployments at scale

Approaches to simply deploying patches across a large inventory of Magento 2 deployments

Verbose Magento 2 DB Schema Status

Ever found yourself wondering why a store required downtime to deploy? Or even the case where `setup:db:status` constantly reports `Declarative Schema is not up to date` despite you just update it?

Is Self-Hosted Sentry Worth It? An Honest Review After Running It in Production

The real maintenance burden, resource requirements, what breaks, and when you should just pay for cloud — after running self-hosted Sentry in production.

Debouncing Magento 2 FPC Purge Requests

Delaying Magento 2 full page cache purges to a set schedule, to improve frontend performance and reduce system load during busy periods such as sales events like black friday.

Is 100% uptime a bad goal?

Should you aim for 100% uptime across your servers? Or instead target fluid infrastructure where short lived nodes can spawn and die as required?

Automating Magento 2 Updates

Chaos Engineering in Magento 2

Do you employ Chaos Engineering with your Enterprise scale stores? Where is why you should start restarting services and infrastructure at random.