Implementation best practices
There are many ways to implement an Adobe Commerce project. The best practices provided in this section describe the way Adobe expects customers and partners to implement specific use cases. These recommendations are designed to help prevent common problems and potential issues related to site configuration and customization, deployment, operations, performance, and upgrades.
These best practices are organized by implementation phase so you can find the recommendations that apply to your use case.
Requirements gathering, architectural design, catalog design, project scoping, account provisioning, user access, extension purchasing
Local and staging environment setup, troubleshooting, code management, sprint planning, sprint review, acceptance testing, and customer sign-off
Final pre- and post-launch checklist reviews, production deployment, security configuration, service verification, and performance monitoring
Site monitoring, catalog management, indexing, configuration, feature enhancements, bug fixing, managed services, upgrades
What’s new in implementation best practices
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November 13, 2025
November 12, 2025
bin/magento setup:config:set CLI command in the Configure Valkey default caching instructions to specify the correct value for the cache-backend parameter.