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No APSB22-48 patches for Magento 2.3

No APSB22-48 patches for Magento 2.3

October 13, 2022

A serious Magento vulnerability has come to the light. Adobe labeled it with security issue APSB22-48. And yesterday, October 12th, new patch releases came out for 2.4.5 (being 2.4.5-p1) and 2.4.4 (being 2.4.4-p2). But what about 2.4.3 and older? What about Magento 2.3? Are we screwed?

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Understanding Shopware 6 PHPDocs annotations

Understanding Shopware 6 PHPDocs annotations

October 10, 2022

In any modern PHP codebase, there are PHP comments to enhance the application: Varying from simple comments to annotations and even Attributes. In Shopware 6, this is no different. But there are some annotations that require a bit more details to understand properly. Here it goes.

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My MageUnconference DE 2022

My MageUnconference DE 2022

October 5, 2022

For me, one of the most rewarding events in the Magento ecosystem is an unconference. Early October (few days ago), I attended the MageUnconference in Cologne. Here's my take.

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Magento 2 interconnectivity: gRPC or GraphQL?

Magento 2 interconnectivity: gRPC or GraphQL?

September 29, 2022

When I slowly got to understand to GraphQL, it made me enthousiastic: The graph allow not only for headless frontending but also for connecting backend services (as long as they support GraphQL). But then gRPC popped up on the radar. Is it there to replace GraphQL? And what does that tell about the future architecture of Magento?

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Give me some Slack

Give me some Slack

September 26, 2022

There was a time I could open up one or two Slack spaces and consume the news. But long gone are those days. There are dozens (?) of chat spaces to keep track of. And it seems a sign of the fragmentation of the Magento community.

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The other frontends of Magento

The other frontends of Magento

September 17, 2022

When dealing with Magento frontending, in the past we always found this to equal the Luma stack. Nowadays however, alternative frontends like Hyvä, Adobe PWA Studio and VueStorefront are mentioned more than Luma. But the story doesn't end there. There are various other alternative frontends to consider as well.

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Review of GraphCommerce

Review of GraphCommerce

September 8, 2022

A new PWA is in town: GraphCommerce. It is based on React, TypeScript and NextJS, open source and using the GraphQL Mesh. It offers plenty of features, but it might not be for the React novice. Here is a review of what I like, dislike and foresee.

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ElasticSearch cluster health is yellow, which is ok?

ElasticSearch cluster health is yellow, which is ok?

August 31, 2022

ElasticSearch is nowadays everywhere in the ecosystem of Magento (and Shopware slowly as well). With Magento 2.4, ElasticSearch was added to the system requirements. But even though numerous developers are using ElasticSearch in production and in development, it is quite common to see that the ElasticSearch cluster to be yellow in color. Is this ok?

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Comparison of Vue Storefront for Magento and for Shopware

Comparison of Vue Storefront for Magento and for Shopware

August 18, 2022

Recently - end of July - the Magento 2 integration of Vue Storefront 2 saw the daylight (well, it was already out there but July 20th marked the first stable release). Because of this, I felt it was a good idea to compare the integration with Magento 2 with Shopware PWA (the Vue Storefront 2 integration with Shopware 6). Apples and pears.

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