Building mapemall.com: Magento for a 500-brand Indonesian retailer
What changed when Magento had to support the catalog complexity of a 500-brand retailer like Mapemall.
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Inheriting a Magento codebase vs building from scratch: an honest comparison
What I learned from working with both clean and tangled Magento codebases, and how I decide whether a system is worth saving.
Multi-currency, multi-region: building Magento for the Middle East
What I learned building Magento stores across UAE and Indonesia: multi-region commerce is much more than translation and exchange rates.
Magento performance in production: lessons from Xcite.com
What I learned about Magento performance once Xcite.com traffic made development-time assumptions stop working.
EAV in Magento: why it exists, when it hurts you, and what I built to fix it
After spending enough time inside Magento's catalog model, I finally started understanding why EAV exists, where it helps, and where the tradeoff starts getting expensive.
Building your first Magento module: what I wish I knew
The Magento 1 module concepts that confused me most when I started building extensions at Contus, and the mental model that finally made them click.