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Engineering insights, product updates, and commerce infrastructure guides.
A compromised Magento store is usually fully online — fast, green, and reporting 100% uptime while it leaks cards or serves a webshell. Here's why the up/down model hides a live breach, why 'compromised' deserves to be its own monitoring status, and what to do when your store is hacked but still up.
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A Magento card skimmer is a few lines of injected JavaScript that quietly copy customer card details at checkout. Here's exactly how it gets into a store — CMS blocks, core_config_data, layout XML — what the malicious script does, why it returns a fast HTTP 200 that uptime and APM tools call healthy, and how to detect and remove it.
An honest comparison of the tools that give Magento zero-downtime deploys — PHP Deployer, Capistrano, Adobe Commerce Cloud, Magefan's module, and Orbit. They're not the same category; here's what each actually does, and which fits your setup.
Every 'best Magento monitoring' list names New Relic, Datadog, Blackfire and Tideways — all APM and profiling tools that answer one question: is it fast? Here's why a fast Magento store can still be broken, what business-outcome monitoring catches that APM can't, and why you need both.
The symlink swap is trivial. The real risk in a Magento deploy is setup:upgrade — will this release's schema change finish in 8 seconds or lock a table for four minutes? Here's how Orbit forecasts the block window before you click deploy.
A drifted indexer, a dead cron, a JS-broken add-to-cart button — the worst Magento outages all return HTTP 200. Here's why generic uptime monitors miss them, and how to catch each one.
Three ways to get Magento sales into Sage, Xero, or FreeAgent — a native connector, a generic automation tool, or manual export. Here's why the hard part isn't moving the data, and what actually breaks.
Magento rebuilds composer, di:compile, and static content on every deploy — even when nothing changed. Here's how Orbit's per-phase fingerprinting skips the work that doesn't need to run, without ever shipping a broken release.
From a single Magento 1 extension for a UK retailer to the official PlentyONE-appointed Magento 2 connector — the story of how Byte8's PlentyONE (formerly PlentyMarkets) integration came to be.
How we built Horizon — an MCP server that makes a Magento 2 catalog queryable by AI agents like Claude and ChatGPT. The architecture, the eight tools, and why it's read-only.
New Relic is great for general APM. But Magento stores need Magento-specific monitoring. Here's why we built Pulsar.
Stop deploying at 2 AM. Atomic symlink swaps, brief cutover holds, and honest maintenance windows make Magento deploys safe in business hours.