Planning phase

The planning phase includes the following activities:

• Requirements gathering
• Architectural design
• Catalog design
• Project scoping
• Account provisioning
• User access
• Extension purchasing

The following sections include best practice information for the planning phase.

Requirements gathering

• Application configuration

  • Best practices for configuring sites, stores, and store views (cloud infrastructure)
  • How to prevent—and fix—the five most common configuration issues for Adobe Commerce sites
  • Best practices for Caching
  • Full page caching
  • OPcache memory size
  • Reporting configuration

• Database configuration

  • Database configuration best practices for cloud deployments​
  • MySQL slave connection configuration​
  • MySQL triggers usage

• Services configuration

  • Set up Fastly
  • New Relic - Configure notification channels
  • Best practices for Redis service configuration​
  • Realpath cache size best practice

Architectural design

• Understanding Global Reference Architecture

Catalog design

The following topics describe performance optimization best practices for configuring your Adobe Commerce catalog including recommended maximums for the number of categories, product effective SKUs, product variations, product attributes and options, and more.

• Category configuration
• Product configuration​
• Product variation configuration
• Product options configuration
• Product attributes configuration​
• Pagination configuration for product listings

Sales and Marketing

• Best practices for product cart limit
• Best practices for configuring promotions

Project scoping

• Partner escalations
• Payments storage processing

Purchase extensions

• Best Practices for using third-party extensions in Adobe Commerce

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