Implementation best practices

Last update: 2023-06-27
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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.

Planning Requirements gathering, architectural design, catalog design, project scoping, account provisioning, user access, extension purchasing
Development Local and staging environment setup, troubleshooting, code management, sprint planning, sprint review, acceptance testing, and customer sign-off
Launch Final pre- and post-launch checklist reviews, production deployment, security configuration, service verification, and performance monitoring
Maintenance Site monitoring, catalog management, indexing, configuration, feature enhancements, bug fixing, managed services, upgrades

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November 7, 2023

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Added a security best practices topic to the Implementation Playbook.

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August 28, 2023

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Added the following new topics:
- Catalog image resizing best practices
- Code management best practices
- Code review best practices
- Debugging best practices
- Exception handling best practices
- General development best practices
- Git branching best practices
- Global reference architecture (GRA) examples
- Composer development for GRA
- Composer project structure for GRA
- Composer tips and tricks for GRA

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August 25, 2023

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Added a new topic about optimizing the backend performance of Adobe Commerce sites.

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August 23, 2023

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Consolidated all product-related best practices topics into a single catalog management topic and added relevant redirects.

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Added a new topic about implementing a centralized patching strategy for Adobe Commerce projects.

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