May 30, 2021

PHP FPM shutdown behavior

Lets say your php script takes a lot of time to process but nginx closes the connection and you see a 502 screen. What happens to your php execution? Here, we want to understand php processes shutdown behavior. In this context, exploring register_shutdown_function behavior is relevant. We will explore 6…

PHP

4 min read

Oct 20, 2020

Note: Magento 2 development environment in general

Of course you gotta have PHPSTORM. Install nginx,php-fpm and composer, nodejs all projects go in /var/www directory nginx conf file name for domain names used on local should have pattern example.to.conf https://www.npmjs.com/package/maildev Setup maildev for local email testing. bashrc contains code to show me current git branch I’m working on …

Magento 2

2 min read

Oct 20, 2020

M2 Note: Classes for building rest client in your extension

This is about using Magento 2 internal classes useful for building restapi client in your magento extension. \Magento\Framework\Oauth\Oauth Oauth class will help you deal with REST authorization. Interesting function is `buildAuthorizationHeader` . Of course you should inject \Magento\Framework\Oauth\OauthInterface in your code instead of the class. \Magento\Framework\Serialize\Serializer\Json For building valid json…

Magento 2

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M2 Note: Classes for building rest client in your extension

This is about using Magento 2 internal classes useful for building restapi client in your magento extension.

\Magento\Framework\Oauth\Oauth

Oauth class will help you deal with REST authorization. Interesting function is `buildAuthorizationHeader` . Of course you should inject \Magento\Framework\Oauth\OauthInterface in your code instead of the class.

\Magento\Framework\Serialize\Serializer\Json

For building valid json…

Jul 18, 2020

KnockoutJs and Magento 2 uiComponent

Magento2 ui library seemed overwhelming when I first started working with it. Not knowing knockout.js was part of the reason. I went through knockout docs and tutorials. It only frustrated me because the way magento uses knockout wasn’t very straight forward. Take a look at javascript code in Magento_Ui module…

Magento 2

3 min read

Jun 16, 2020

MYSQL : JOIN vs IN clause performance

I work on an analytics platform and recently I wanted to create test database from our live database which is around 600GB. We are using mysql version 5.6. Actions table contains billions of records. I wanted to take slice of that table. I wrote a query using IN clause. For…

2 min read

Dec 23, 2018

Being Technically strong

Often while coding I experience mental blocks. I feel stuck. This feeling makes me aware of a potential skill to be developed. Probably the most important skill. I ask myself, how do you break such mental blocks (feeling of being stuck)?? First step is to recognise that you are feeling…

Programming

3 min read

Aug 8, 2018

Automation testing and DevOps for Magento 2 store

So we got a huge project to work on, Magento 2 migration. The existing store was highly customised. Team consisted of 6 people, 3 developers, 1 QA, a theme designer and a “Database guy”. Our job was to move customer to M2 with all their existing functionality and data. Since…

Software Testing

4 min read

Feb 21, 2018

K-Nearest neighbor Algorithm

If you are here, I’m gonna assume you have already heard a lot about machine learning. We will start of our journey by starting with really simple and intuitive algorithm. It always begins with classification problems. Apples or Oranges? What is that digit? Is it a one or perhaps seven…

Java Script

4 min read

Published in Humcommerce Magento Blog

·Nov 27, 2017

Bringing Service Workers to Magento2

I started playing around with service workers with magento2 platform. I could have started with Google code lab on Progressive web Apps but I was too excited to implement service workers in magento2. It kind of makes sense to take advantage of service workers for ecommerce websites. For me the…

Progressive Web App

4 min read

Published in Humcommerce Magento Blog

·Aug 21, 2017

Be careful when minifying HTML in Magento2

Most difficult bugs are those bugs that do not cause any errors. One such bug is checkout going blank without any errors. It was very strange. I took an exact copy of the site on my local but checkout would work just fine. It was only on the live site…

Knockoutjs Magento 2

2 min read

PHP FPM shutdown behavior

Note: Magento 2 development environment in general

M2 Note: Classes for building rest client in your extension

M2 Note: Classes for building rest client in your extension

KnockoutJs and Magento 2 uiComponent

MYSQL : JOIN vs IN clause performance

Being Technically strong

Automation testing and DevOps for Magento 2 store

K-Nearest neighbor Algorithm

Bringing Service Workers to Magento2

Be careful when minifying HTML in Magento2

Abhishek Jakhotiya