Magento 2 Upgrade

Now we already know that Magento 2.0 runs on PHP 5.3 and Zend Framework. While on the database front, it will support MySQL,  MSSQL, Oracle SQL and PostgreSQL

Composer integration

Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. Magento 2 uses Composer to package components and product editions. Some third party components that the Magento system uses may be actually not present in the code base. Instead, they are listed as dependencies in the root composer.json file.

New updates on what Magento 2.0

It basically takes a database-driven site (where each page might have 100+ database calls to build a single page) and pre-renders all of the pages into basic HTML. This can take page load times down to 1-2 seconds, from a normal 5-8 seconds for many eCommerce sites.

Faster page load times mean less load on a server. So you can handle more traffic and visitors without having to pay for more hosting infrastructure. Fast page load times make for a better end user experience, can translate into a higher conversion rate, and are a key signal that Google uses to rank sites

Reduced JS code calls. In the past, Magento 1.9 and 1.14 needed to load dozens of JavaScript (JS) libraries to build a single page. This has been reduced; making page load times faster.

Better APIs, more modular core, better theming and layout – all these are promised. We’ll see how this actually plays out though in the real world, however.

Magento 2.0 – Simplified Checkout Process

 

Zip Code – Pre-fills in Shipping Method, City, State on Magento 2.0

Favorite option, though, was the removal of the “Credit Card Type” field

you’re now able to create an account so that you can come back to the site and track your order

Performance Enhancement

Normally considered to be extremely resource intensive, there have been talks on how the new version will be 20% faster than the previous versions. So we did a quick test run to verify that.

The results were exciting and promising.

We decided to do a test run with a catalog of 5000 products and compared it on the following parameters.

	Mangento 1.x	Mangento 2.0	Improvement
Product Import Time	54 min.	2 min.	27x
Catalog re-Indexing  Time	12 min.	45 sec.	16x

Cataloguing a few hundreds of products didn’t show significant difference in the load times. But when we moved that figure to 5000, you can see the change is magnanimous. 27 times faster in the import time and indexing the products was 16 times faster. Now for any shop owner this figure MATTERS!

Want to Upgrade to Magento 2.0?

Essentially, a Magento upgrade is a three step process:
1. First, we update your database and file structure system to point to the new version of Magento.
2. Second, we move over the themes and custom extensions that make your site unique.
3. Third, we set our Testing Team on the ugraded development site to ensure everything functions properly.
Once the site has been approved by our Testing Team and the client we go ahead and put the upgraded site live.