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PHP2SHELL (CVE-2026-109618): Patching a Small PHP Estate on Release Day

How we prepared for and patched PHP2SHELL (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) across native, Docker and Kubernetes PHP, from a Slack leak to the last site back.

Magento 2 E2E Testing: A Playwright Suite You Configure, Not Fork

An open source Playwright end to end testing suite for Magento 2.4.7 to 2.4.9 and Mage-OS, with Luma and Hyvä supported out of the box, adapted to a store through five JSON config files instead of a per-client fork.

Operational Maturity Before AI Velocity: What Your Magento Team Needs First

AI is a force multiplier for Magento development — but it multiplies whatever processes you already have. Here's the operational stack your team needs before leaning heavily into AI-generated output.

Adobe's Isolated Patch Strategy: A Community Response

Adobe's new monthly isolated patch approach for Magento creates maintenance burden. Here's how a community meta-package can help restore sanity to security patching.

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?

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? A Year Running It in Production

A year of self-hosted Sentry in production: 9 to 11 million events a month on a ~£30 Hetzner server, disk-space scares, flaky cleanup and updates.

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.