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Making Magento Do Things Adobe Never Intended

DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering with a side of questionable architectural decisions

Debugging Varnish Cache Performance in Magento 2

Quick reference guide to debugging Varnish usage within Magento 2, covering cache utilisation, hit & miss rate logging, identifying the source of purge requests

Stop Overpaying for New Relic Data Ingest by reducing Tracing Data

Magento Trojan Orders (CVE-2022-24086) - addAfterFilterCallback

Magento 2 Trojan Orders (CVE-2022-24086) are back, lets talk about how to patch so we are safe. And other identifiers aside from addAfterFilterCallback

Magento 2 Optimising Static Content Deploy

How to debug Magento Javascript components in DevTools

Delete GitHub Actions Artifacts Automatically: Reusable Cleanup Workflow

GitHub Actions accumulates artifacts fast. How to automatically delete old artifacts using a reusable workflow — with age filters, size limits, and per-repo scheduling.

Blocking TOR exit routes

How do we go about blocking TOR / Onion traffic to our site?

Simple 2 line fix for Polyfill.io Malware in Magento 2

A quick and easy two line fix configuration fix for the Polyfill.io Magento 2 Malware

CosmicSting (CVE-2024-34102): Check and Patch Your Magento Store

Free validator tool to check if your Magento 2 store is vulnerable to CosmicSting (CVE-2024-34102) — 6,500+ stores tested, 2,300+ found vulnerable. Step-by-step patching guide included.