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Magento 2 Development Essentials

By : Fernando J Miguel
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Magento 2 Development Essentials

By: Fernando J Miguel

Overview of this book

Magento is the e-commerce software and platform trusted by the world's leading brands. Used by thousands of merchants for their transactions worth billions, it provides the flexibility to customize the content and functionality of your website. By strengthening your fundamentals in Magento development, you can develop the best solutions and take advantage of the growing market. This fast-paced tutorial will provide you with skills you need to successfully create themes, extensions, and solutions to Magento 2 projects. This book begins by setting up Magento 2 before gradually moving onto setting the basic options of the Sell System. You will take advantage of Search Engine Optimization aspects, create design and customize theme layout, develop new extensions, and adjust the Magento System to achieve great performance. By sequentially working through the steps in each chapter, you will quickly explore all the features of Magento 2 to create a great solution. With ample examples and a practical approach, this book will ensure your success with this astonishing e-commerce management system.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento 2 Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 8. Speeding up Your Magento 2.0

Despite the existence of a great solution such as Zend Framework for its system, Magento 2.0 needs some fine tuning to get the best performance in order to provide the users with a better shopping experience. As you noted in the previous chapters, it is very important to focus on every aspect for successful e-commerce.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

  • Magento Entity-Attribute-Value

  • Indexing and re-indexing data

  • Caching

  • Selecting the right Magento hosting service

  • Apache web server deflation

  • Enabling the expires header

  • PHP memory configuration

  • Optimizing the MySQL server

  • Cleaning the database log

  • Minifying scripts

  • CDN for Magento