At Softizy we also provide optimized hosting for our customers, using Cloud based providers.We have for example a fully optimized Prestashop stack deployed on AWS using Terraform. This stack includes Varnish which is usually running on EC2 r6a instances which have an interesting high Memory / CPU ratio. Why not switching to arm64? On Irlande […]

I) What is Varnish? Varnish Cache is a caching HTTP reverse proxy, really fast, and which is basically able to cache your page depending on the http headers set by the application. However PrestaShop doesn’t have a mechanism to control the HTTP header, and what should be cached / not cached. Hence, it’s not possible […]

I) Performance improvements in 1.7.2.2 With the release of PrestaShop 1.7.2.2, we have tried to remove a few point of contention which were affecting badly overall PrestaShop performance: Specific price computation Bad sale page pagination, which loaded too many products on one page Let’s check the specific price improvement! II) Why improving specificPrice is important for […]

I) The Best Performances Ever ? Let’s have a closer look MariaDB 10.1 and MySQL 5.7 have been officially GAed for a few weeks now, and each company claims to have awesome performances. MariaDB claims that the biggest improvement on its new version is scalability on massively multithreaded hardware, reaching more than 1 million queries per second on […]

I) What’s new in PrestaShop 1.6.1.0? A lot of things have been improved on PrestaShop 1.6.1.0 : Design Invoices Search Performance : we have done a lot of work to improve the overall performances of PrestaShop, and reached in some cases a whooping 10x improvement. Let’s now dig into the optimizations we have put in place, […]