In this chapter, we will cover the basic tasks related to optimizing your performance in Magento 2. You will learn the following recipes:
- Configuring Redis for backend cache
- Configuring Memcached for session caching
- Configuring Varnish as a Full Page Cache
- Configuring Magento 2 with CloudFlare
- Configuring optimized images in Magento 2
- Configuring Magento 2 with HTTP/2
- Configuring Magento 2 performance testing
This chapter explains one of the most important elements of Magento. From the early Magento days, performance has been a hard topic to cover. Many setups out there in the e-commerce world are performance-great, but most of the time, the majority are having issues. Magento 1 may not be the best performance platform out there.
However, now we have Magento 2, a brand new platform designed for performance. From the very first day, the main Magento developers focused on a better framework and the outcome is great. According to the...