#gigacommerce – Scalable online shops with 1 billion items and more

Posted on December 14, 2018 by aimeos — No Comments ↓

Does an online shop with 1 billion items work on a standard cloud server? And that even with the demand for very low response times? We investigated this question during the #gigacommerce project.

The #gigacommerce setup contains 1 billion articles, which are combined into 10 million products. Each item contains attributes, images, prices and text like in any online store. The basis is a Symfony, Laravel and TYPO3 installation with the Aimeos E-Commerce extension, which access an ElasticSearch server.

All three frontends have been extensively tested to find out where the limits are. The Aimeos components showed that they scale almost infinitely, with response times of around 100 milliseconds. Interestingly, the only absolute limit in the tests was not the available hardware, but the network bandwidth, which was used up at over 600 PI/second. This makes it particularly interesting for peak load situations and TV advertising.

How to use the TYPO3 caching framework with cache groups

Posted on August 25, 2015 by aimeos — No Comments ↓

The TYPO3 caching framework is a great way to speed up your site if your extension needs to perform tasks that can be cached. In the Aimeos TYPO3 extension, we use it to store content like list or detail views of the web shop to get lightning fast response times. Since version 6.2, a cache can belong to one or more cache groups in the caching framework and it enables editors to control more precisely which caches should be flushed. Unfortunately, this features isn’t well documented yet in the TYPO3 documentation but here’s the remedy!

Language mapping in TYPO3 with RealURL and bootstrap package

Posted on June 3, 2015 by aimeos — 1 Comment ↓

The cool thing about the TYPO3 bootstrap_package extension is that you can set up a new site within minutes because everything is pre-configured. This also includes the RealURL setup so you already see the page titles in your URLs and the language parameter value is mapped too.

Steps to configure your TYPO3 extension automatically

Posted on February 18, 2015 by aimeos — 1 Comment ↓

Simplicity is key! I think nobody would oppose to this little sentence but in the TYPO3 ecosystem, many things are not very simple – at least not for new users. Even the most popular extensions need a deep knowledge of how to configure them before they can be used. And good documentation is most of time a rare thing!

So why not build an extension that works out of the box and configures itself as far as possible to give users an instant feeling of success? The constants.txt or setup.txt TypoScript files of the extensions can contain almost all default settings. But things get difficult if the required configuration depends on dynamic things like page IDs. Then, all hope of simplicity is lost and users have to add the necessary settings themselves again.

How to execute scripts after installing TYPO3 extensions

Posted on February 12, 2015 by aimeos — 1 Comment ↓

Extensions are a great way to add features to the TYPO3 CMS and there are extension for virtually everything! Simply download them from the TYPO3 extension repository and install them via the Extension Manager in the TYPO3 back-end. So far so good …

Often, the remaining tasks of configuring the extension, adding new pages with the plug-ins from the extension or importing required data into the database becomes much more cumbersome. Why can’t life be not as easy as in other CMS? Just click and everything works?