Optimize The Performance Level Of Magento Stores Using Packt's New Instant Ebook

Improve the performance of your Magento stores using practical, hands-on recipes.

Birmingham (I-Newswire) March 21, 2013 -

Packt is pleased to announce the release of Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-to, a short, fast-paced, focused guide filled with practical instructions and clear explanations to help optimize Magento stores for high performance. Preparing installation for clustering, identifying misconfigurations are some key learning concepts readers can expect from this book.

About the Author: Nayrolles Mathieu has completed his diploma in Information Systems Management. Currently, he is pursuing a double diploma course in UQAM, where he was also awarded for one of his publications. He has written two Master Theses on Artificial Intelligence and Quality. He has worked for companies worldwide, such as Eurocopter and Saint-Gobain.

Magento is an open source e-commerce web application that was launched on March 31, 2008. It was developed by Varien (now Magento Inc) with help from the programmers within the open source community but is owned solely by Magento Inc. Magento was built using the Zend Framework. It uses the entity-attribute-value (EAV) database model to store data.

Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-To is a how-to book with practical recipes accompanied with rich screenshots for easy comprehension. Readers will learn how to compress pages, styles, and scripts by almost 80%. They will also learn about optimization settings such as Magento core compilation or enabling all caching systems.

The book covers the following important topics:

- Merge and compress style and script files
- Compile Magento's core system Use indexes for data for faster searches
- Fine-tune caches
- Optimize web server for Magento
- Optimize database server for Magento Clustering environment
- Use a memory based file system for improved performance

Instant Magento Performance Optimization How-To is written for Magento administrators who are familiar with the backend console and wish to optimize their store for increasing performance. The book is now available for purchase.