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    <title>Absar Akram</title>
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      <title>Magento 2 with Hyvä: is it worth it?</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Hyvä is the most practical way to get a fast Magento 2 storefront today, but whether it&apos;s worth it for your store depends mostly on how many 3rd-party frontend modules you rely on.</description>
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      <title>Challenges of working remotely</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>I&apos;ve been working remotely for a couple of years now and I love the flexibility and convenience it offers but there are also some down sides that I&apos;ll cover in this post.</description>
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      <title>Why you must try out Bitbucket Pipelines</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Bitbucket Pipelines is a CI/CD (continuous integration and deployment) tool that is built into the Bitbucket platform. It allows you to automatically build, test, and deploy your code with ease.</description>
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      <title>Magento PWA Studio (ready for production?)</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>In my opinion, the PWA Studio is not ready for a complex website that is using a bunch of 3rd party modules and custom modules, unless that company has a dedicated in-house team of developers to work on this.</description>
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      <title>Configuring Nginx with PHP &amp; PHP-FPM on Ubuntu</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>A Ubuntu server configured with Nginx and PHP is my first pick when setting up a dev or live environment for a web application.</description>
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      <title>Hey there! Welcome!</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Welcome to my blog. Here, I&apos;ll write about the tech I am working with and I&apos;ll share my experiences while I explore different tech frameworks and platforms.</description>
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