The Most Underestimated Feature in Magento? - Chris Anderson

On this episode of Smash the Bug, Chris Anderson, Tech Lead at BORN Group talks about a difficult integration project and how developers really should be learning how to use RabbitMQ!

Key Takeaways

Using Magento in the "best way possible" and avoiding over-customization away from the Magento core.

Why RabbitMQ isn't more widely used, and why you should start learning about it.

When a client was trying to onboard multiple sites to Magento and have it communicate with their SSO, RabbitMQ was a uniquely perfect solution, which made Chris the "RabbitMQ guy" at his company after he learned how to use it specifically for this project.

The importance of not letting yourself stop learning - you never know when you'll be faced with a task that could take 100 hours or 1 hour, depending on how wide your knowledge base is.

A simple communication error can wreak havoc on an entire system, and being able to spot it requires the desire to learn more than you think you "need" to know.