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Guides, tutorials and best practices from the Magento Company team.
Magento 2 UI Components: A Practical Introduction
Magento 2 UI components explained practically: how XML, JS and PHP providers combine to build admin grids and forms, with a minimal working example.
Magento SEO Best Practices to Rank Higher in 2026
Essential SEO strategies for Magento 2 stores including structured data markup, XML sitemaps, canonical URLs, rich snippets, and meta tag optimization.
Magento 2 and Akeneo PIM: A Sensible Integration Pattern
Integrate Akeneo PIM with Magento 2: connector setup, attribute mapping, enrichment workflows, performance tuning and who owns what data.
Magento 2 Cron Jobs: Scheduling, Groups and Troubleshooting
Magento 2 cron explained: groups, schedules, the cron_schedule table, common failures and how to monitor cron so indexes and emails never silently stop.
Magento 2 WAF and Rate Limiting Strategies
WAF and rate limiting for Magento 2: Fastly/Cloudflare rules, endpoint-specific limits, bot management and protecting admin, API and checkout.
Magento 2 Composer Workflows for Teams
Composer workflows for Magento 2 teams: lockfile discipline, private packagist, patching core with cweagans, and avoiding dependency hell.
Magento 2 PWA Studio: Project Setup Walkthrough
Set up a PWA Studio project against Magento 2: scaffolding with @magento/create-pwa, Venia theme, UPWARD config, build and deploy notes.
Fastly CDN Configuration for Adobe Commerce Cloud
Fastly on Adobe Commerce Cloud: caching behaviour, VCL snippets, image optimisation, shielding and the config that actually moves performance.
Magento 2 Webhooks and Event-Driven Integrations
Event-driven integration with Magento 2: native webhooks options, observer-to-queue patterns, payload design, retries and signature verification.
Magento 2 Service Contracts: Why They Matter
Why Magento 2 service contracts matter: the Api layer as a stability boundary, BC policy, and how depending on interfaces future-proofs custom code.
Magento 2 Redis Session and Cache Configuration Guide
How to configure Redis for Magento 2 sessions, default cache and page cache: separate databases, eviction policies, persistence and pitfalls.
Magento 2 Plugins, Observers and Preferences: Which to Use
Plugins vs observers vs preferences in Magento 2: what each extension mechanism can and cannot do, and how to choose the right one.