DevOps Articles

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?

Self-Hosting Sentry in Production: 12-Month Real-World Review

After 12 months running self-hosted Sentry in production: £2,500–£3,500/month saved vs cloud, stable enough to mostly forget about, but disk management is the ongoing pain point.

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.

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.

Magento 2 Optimising Static Content Deploy

Delete All GitHub Actions Artifacts in One Command (gh CLI)

One-liner to bulk-delete all GitHub Actions artifacts using the GitHub CLI. No third-party actions needed — works from the terminal or directly inside a workflow for automated nightly cleanup.