It’s hard to articulate just exactly why people should avoid Amasty but DRM is a pretty hard line you should never cross in a PHP project. It’s just not necessary, and it speaks volumes to their intent as Adobe and the broader community would come to their defense if their good work was actually stolen by other vendors.
Doug Hatcher
Enterprise architecture and tech junkie
I’m partial to devcontainers, personally.
Honestly, just do your best and learn to be a good teammate. Languages come and go, and with ChatGPT you’ve got a buddy ever ready to answer questions. My advice is use it, don’t rely on its code but use it to grok and understand. The rest is being useful. Ask the dumb questions, because you’re not the only person wondering. Give practical commitment dates, over communicate and help those around you.
How big is the codebase? Obviously you’re facing a rewrite, but I would start by reviewing the logs and codebase, think deeply about how it should work, and isolate the current solution and mitigate the problems while you start building the correct solution.
You need to begin by getting your arms around the biggest problems and begin to address them this week. Start by installing new relic, tackle problems with zeal, and do it first on a staging environment with plenty of testing so you’re not introducing more problems.
while you’re doing this, sort out a proper gitflow based continuous integration for testing, and continuous delivery with deployment automation. Also put everything your doing in the readmes! Learn markdown.
Finally, Google scrum ceremonies and begin to follow them. Learn planning poker, rely on your team, and the three stand up questions. Do all this, and you will be ok.
Open Source is a standalone product with its own community and roadmap geared towards small to medium sized businesses. Adobe supports and helps fund Magento, and will continue to do so. There willl always be the two products. Adobe wants the enterprise market for Adobe Commerce and thinks an open source base helps add value by building a bigger community and giving brands a path in And out of the enterprise licensing tier. As far as I can tell, Adobe Commerce and Magento will continue to drift apart and I suspect that eventually Adobe Commerce will shed its legacy PHP core as Adobe moves on to out of process extensibility principles and solutions like Edge Delivery and App Builder.