Medusa Storefront Performance: Where the Milliseconds Actually Go
Over-fetching, waterfalls and unoptimised images account for most of a slow headless storefront. How to find them and what to do about each.
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Medusa Storefront SEO: Structured Data, Canonicals and Facets
Headless means you own every SEO decision, including the ones a hosted platform used to make. Metadata, Product schema, canonical rules and the faceted-navigation trap.
Deploying Medusa on AWS: ECS, RDS and the Parts That Bite
A production AWS architecture for Medusa — ECS Fargate, RDS, ElastiCache, S3 — plus the networking and migration details that turn a two-day job into a two-week one.
Deploying Medusa on Railway: The Fastest Production Setup
Railway is the shortest path from a Medusa repository to a production deployment that is actually correct. The full setup, including the worker service everyone forgets.
Dockerising Medusa: A Production Image That Is Not 2GB
A multi-stage Dockerfile for Medusa v2, a compose file for local development, and the build-memory problem that catches every team once.
Medusa Environment Variables and Configuration, Done Properly
Every variable Medusa reads, which ones are security-critical, and how to structure configuration so a missing value fails at boot instead of at checkout.
Medusa Database Migrations: Generating, Reviewing and Deploying Safely
Generated migrations are only as safe as your review of them. How Medusa migrations work, and the expand-and-contract pattern that keeps rolling deploys from failing.
Stripe with Medusa: Setup, Elements and Webhooks That Work
Configuring the Stripe module, wiring Payment Elements into a Next.js checkout, and the webhook and 3D Secure details that decide whether payments reconcile.
The Medusa Checkout Flow: Every Step, and Where It Breaks
Address, shipping, payment session, complete. The four stages of a Medusa checkout, the state machine underneath, and the failure modes that cost orders.
Deploying Medusa to Production: Architecture, Checklist and Pitfalls
What a production Medusa deployment actually needs — process separation, Redis, migrations, health checks — and the four mistakes that cause the first outage.
Medusa Project Structure: Where Every Kind of Code Belongs
Medusa loads code by convention. A directory-by-directory guide to what goes where, and the decision tree for placing any new piece of logic.
Payment Providers in Medusa: Architecture, Choice and Failover
How Medusa's payment abstraction works, why running two providers is easier than you think, and the authorise-versus-capture decision that determines your refund story.