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Magento 2 Cookbook

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Magento 2 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Magento 2 is an open source e-commerce platform that has all the functionality to function from small to large online stores. It is preferred by developers and merchants due to its new architecture, which makes it possible to extend the functionalities with plugins, a lot of which are now created by the community. This merchant and developer guide is packed with recipes that cover all aspects of Magento 2. The recipes start with simple how-to’s then delve into more advanced topics as the book progresses. We start with the basics of setting up a Magento 2 project on Apache or Nginx. Next, you will learn about basics including system tools and caching to get your Magento 2 system ready for the real work. We move on to simple tasks such as managing your store and catalog configuration. When you are familiar with this, we cover more complex features such as module and extension development. Then we will jump to the final part: advanced Magento 2 extensions. By the end of this book, you’ll be competent with all the development phases of Magento 2 and its most common elements.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Magento 2 Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring Redis for backend cache


Redis may be one of the best improvements since we used Memcache(d) or Alternative PHP Cache (APC). For the last couple of years, Redis is available in Magento 1 and has a big performance benefit.

What is Redis and why is it important for Magento? Well, Redis is not new; its initial release dates to the beginning of 2009—almost as young as Magento 1. Redis is a key-value storage database that stores the data in-memory of your web server. Besides this, the in-memory caches are fast and also have a persistence feature that is really important when a server reboots. All caches are not flushed during a reboot and are available in-memory when the web server is up again.

In the beginning of the Magento 1 area, we used Memcache(d) or APC, which worked very well but not as well as Redis. In Magento 1, Redis was used for a backend cache and session storage most of the time. Some websites also used it as a Full Page Cache (FPC) storage.

One other great advantage of...