Reading the Slow Query Log: When the Database Is the Brake
Slow shops rarely have a visible problem, they have an expensive one. How the slow query log, measured execution plans and matching indexes reveal where the compute time actually goes.
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Peak Season: Load Testing and an Emergency Plan for Your Shop
Peak season is in the calendar, yet hardly anyone knows their shop's capacity ceiling. This guide shows how to derive a load profile from last year's data, run a staged load test against a production-like copy, define target value, warning threshold and emergency stop, and build an emergency plan with rehearsed relief valves - including an operating calendar from July to January.
PHP 8.5 in Your Shop: Tuning OPcache and JIT Right
In PHP 8.5 OPcache is built in. This guide shows which OPcache values save response time in a shop, when JIT tracing helps on CPU-bound routes and hurts on I/O-bound ones - including migration from PHP 8.4.
Sovereign Cloud: Data Sovereignty for Online Shops 2026
Data residency is not data sovereignty: why the US CLOUD Act reaches EU-hosted data, what the EU Cloud Sovereignty Framework with eight objectives and five SEAL levels requires, and how to run your shop's customer, order and payment data sovereignly.
Backup & Disaster Recovery for Online Shops 2026
Ransomware and human error hit every shop. This guide shows how tested 3-2-1 backups, defined RTO/RPO targets and a documented recovery plan form a resilient contingency plan - and how disaster recovery differs from monitoring.
Shopware Message Queue: Workers in Production
Late order mails, a stale search index, an outdated sitemap: how to move the Shopware message queue into production with CLI workers, separate queues and alerting.
Shopware Cache Rework: Caching for Logged-In Customers
The storefront HTTP cache now works with login and a filled cart. How the sw-cache-hash works, what changes in invalidation and how to prepare extensions safely.
MySQL 8.0 End of Life: Migrate Your Shop Database
With 8.0.46, support for MySQL 8.0 ends. Why the EOL database under your shop is first an audit problem - and how the move to 8.4 LTS works.
Zero-Downtime Deployments: Blue-Green for Shops
Maintenance windows cost revenue. How blue-green and canary deployments with cache warmup and clean session handling take new versions live without your shop ever going offline.