A plugin, or “interceptor” in Magento 2, is an essential customization component that allows developers to extend and modify the behavior of a class’s public methods without directly editing its source code. In other words, a plugin acts as an...
Redis: a fast, in-memory ally Redis is a lightweight key-value store running in memory, widely used for caching, sessions, queues, and real-time data handling. Magento 2 doesn’t require Redis, but it definitely benefits from it — especially when you’re working...
Magento is great (yes, really—and you probably think so too, otherwise you wouldn’t be here!). But installing Magento locally for the first time can quickly become long and complicated. Between Nginx, Varnish, Redis, MariaDB, etc., that’s a lot of services to set up!...
MageExpert is a blog dedicated to Magento 2, web development, and open-source e-commerce. Launched by the team at OpenITech, this site aims to share technical resources, practical tutorials, strategic guides, as well as insights and trends from the e-commerce world....
