Magento Imagine DevExchange 2017

I head a small team of web developers and we spend day and nights on Magento however, one thing, which I feel strongly about, is that there should be a full stack developer in house to address the Magento core issues as well as frontend performance issue. As a team leader, I sometimes feel that some of the developers don't think about the other tier whilst working on their tasks and they totally ignore the implications of their work on someone else's work.    Having a full stack developer along with other developers can reduce the project cost and ensure an on-time delivery of the project.    I hope this makes sense. I am open for your thoughts here.  ... View more

Developing a good store is not sufficient till we can ensure its availability 24/7, being unavailable for even minutes can result in thousands or millions of dollars in lost revenue, so designing systems to be constantly available and resilient to failure is both a fundamental business and a technology requirement. Big brands can afford large resources and even still resources that can be used in need.  But for a small startup, it is mandatory that their resources are used to their maximum potential and can scale in peak load time to not only give them the confidence to be available at the high time but to provide them more business opportunities. Understanding how we can use external storage to serve content to reduce resources(use cheap resources) and implement load balancers using simple storage service or similar services will give the confidence to use Magento2 for smaller brands and startups. ... View more

Chasing that illusive perfect development machine setup? Let's have a roundtable discussion and compare notes: What works for you and what could be improved? What tools make you more productive? What scripts can't you live without? What helps you get stuff done on daily basis? What services do you use? ... View more

Frontend performance is the key component for running a user friendly site. And impacts 80% off the total. We created a new measure component which reports all browser performance metrics on the fly for Chrome and Firefox. But also the diff between desktop and mobile. And don't forget all the different connection type like 3G, 4G, Cable....etc. Beside the metrics we share a inside overview of all detailed coach rules how to optimize your Magento side. This new tool will be released during imagine. ... View more

When using Magento 2 incl varnish is it not possible to configure varnish using SSL. We need to offload it if we want to use this. In this session I will share details on how to do this with, Nginx, HAProxy, Fastly, Section.io CloudFlare, Traefik, Let's Encypt and much more... ... View more

- What are you / should you be monitoring? - What tools are you using? - How do you handle after hours support? ... View more