Caching Medusa: What to Cache, Where, and What Never To
Four cache layers, one rule about carts, and the invalidation strategy that stops a price change taking twelve hours to appear.
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Performance articles
Articles tagged Performance — hands-on notes from the commerce builds we ship.
Search in Medusa: Algolia, Meilisearch and Keeping the Index Fresh
Database search stops working sooner than you expect. Choosing an engine, building the index, and the sync strategy that survives a bulk import.
Scaling Medusa: What Breaks First and How to Fix It
Traffic does not break Medusa — the database does, then the workers, then the catalog queries. The bottlenecks in the order you will meet them.
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.
Three things to fix before going live on Hydrogen
Edge runtime gotchas, cart hydration, and the SEO trap most teams miss.
Building a Medusa Storefront in Next.js: Architecture and Patterns
Server components, caching, cart state and the rendering decisions that determine whether your storefront is fast. The architecture we use on every Medusa build.