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We always have a tendency to cut corners. It so happened today that I was installing Magento on one of our servers since I wanted to work on a custom module. Installation is a trivial process with Magento. Usually before installing software I do a check on requirements and dependancies to make sure that the …

Using memcached as layer that handles user defined caching using key-value pair is fairly common these days. Memcached can help reduce the load on MySQL servers [or any backend data store] for read intensive systems. More often people are using 2 or more front end servers that handle distributed load. Having such a system in …

Many e-commerce websites that handle payment using a third party payment gateway end up paying a significant percentage of their gross transaction amount to the payment gateways. While there is a wide range of payment gateways available the fees still range from 0.1%  to 5% of the sales amount. Some gateways charge low per transaction …