Magento 2.0 is finally out and is gathering attention from the community, partners, existing customers, and prospects alike because of all the innovation packed into the platform. Magento 2.0 promises to be the next-generation digital commerce platform, delivering INNOVATION, AGILITY, and SCALABILITY.
In the next few blogs, we will review all the changes and innovations in Magento 2.0 and the benefits it offers to end customers, merchants (store owners), and developers & partners.

Modern Technology Stack

The Change

• With Magento 2.0, significant changes have been made to the technology stack. It now supports the latest versions of technologies like Redis, Apache, PHP, Memcached, MySQL, and Apache Solr, along with new technologies like JMeter (performance testing), RabbitMQ (message queue), Knockout, and Composer (deployment). Magento 2.0 also officially supports Varnish, Nginx, and PHPUnit.

What this means for Merchants

• With support for modern technologies, merchants benefit from a more robust, secure, and faster eCommerce store. Magento 2.0 also addresses common Magento 1.x issues like deadlocks.
• The updated technology stack improves efficiency in managing and maintaining production environments.

What this means for Developers and Partners

• The modern stack enables developers and partners to build more robust stores and extensions while reducing optimization effort compared to Magento 1.x.
• However, developers and partners will need to invest time in learning the new platform and technologies and assessing the impact on development and support strategies.

What this means for End Customers

• While the technology stack changes are not directly visible, customers benefit from improved performance, security, and overall shopping experience.

Stay tuned for our next blog on Magento 2.0.