MageTalk: A Magento Podcast

Kalen and Willem talk to Filip Ralpwslo and Bartek Igielski about Cats, VueStorefront and Composable Commerce.

Kalen and Willem talk about the Magento Association, whether the Magento Association brand can be used currently, the need for urgency around the website and other things, etc. Recorded on October 18, 2022

In this episode, Willem and Kalen talk about the branding issues related to Magento Open Source vs. Magento Commerce in relation to the Adobe Commerce branding. Also socks. This episode is brought to you by: - MageChat - https://magechat.club/ - Hyva Themes - https://hyva.io/

In this episode, Kalen announces his new product – MageChat – a private invite-only Slack for the Magento community. We talk about the line between being toxic and being honest & direct in a Slack. And Willem talks about what’s going on with MageOS! Thank you to our sponsors: Future Commerce – https://futurecommerce.fm/ MageChat – https://magechat.club/ Hyva – https://hyva.io/

In Memorium to the passage of the Magento brand, now renamed Adobe Commerce we offer a moment of silence. It is also, definitely, totally not in any way in relation to the 12 hours of downtime experienced by repo.magento.com recently.

Phillip and Kalen are trying to do the oft-attempted, rarely accomplished Reverse Podfade. Will they succeed? Only time will tell.

Kalen sits down with David to discuss some of the finer things in life including balance, building a team. Also - can video games help dev team members socialize? Listen now!

Building on PWA is all too common for Graycore, and Damian shares his experience in delivering the next generation of headless commerce experiences with Magento. Listen now!

Eric Hileman sits down with Kalen to discuss team remote culture, how to maintain open communication in Slack!

Kalen sits down with Guido Jansen, and discusses the psychology of eCommerce and Conversion Rate Optimization.

Kalen is joined by the venerable Riccardo Tempesta, AKA "THE RICK". Listen now!

How do you create an accurate budget? Is there a difference between a good agency or a bad agency? Listen now!

Does your day have a predictable structure and are you trying to optimize that for productivity or for happiness?

Is Content Security Policy dead? Find out!

Recorded before COVID-19, Phillip interviews Joseph McDermott of Klevu, a search solution provider for Magento

From the archives - a never-before-released PRE-COVID interview recorded in Early Feburary 2020. We sit down with Peter Manijak from Magento Certification to talk about the forthcoming Magento Imagine at Adobe Summit. Listen now!

From the archives - a previously unpublished episode! Recorded January 2019.

Tiny houses, RV's, the call of the open road, and Meet Magento UK 2020.

We're back. And we're (somehow still) talking about Magento 1 EOL.

The boys are joined in today's episode by Rebecca Brocton and they discuss mental health, how to battle impostor syndrome, and how to overcome social anxiety when attending community events. Listen now!

In today's episode, the boys are joined by Rico Neitzel and Fabian Blechschmidt from Mage One to discuss how Mage One is keeping Magento 1 alive even after its end of life. Listen now!

Phillip is joined on today's episode by his name twin Phil Hanson and they discuss virtual queue technology, how to handle massive traffic on your website, and of course, their sneaker obsessions. Listen now!

In today's episode, the boys mix up the format a bit by starting with a recap of MagentoLive Europe and then moving into an interview with Ampjar's Pete Davis in which they discuss social media and Ampjar's unique way on capitalizing on healthy social engagement. Listen now!

The boys are very energetic in today's episode where they talk about the future of the world as we know it, what they would do with a billion dollars, and the spooky Magento 1 end of life looming ever closer. Listen now!

In a particularly spicy episode, the boys are joined by Weidenhammer's Aaron Sheehan and they discuss eCommerce costs in 2019, problems in the Magento community, and how product copy is so important. Listen now!

Kalen is joined by Rick Willett on today's episode and they talk about the state of Magento in Japan, Rick's programming journey, and Rick's performance career as a member of STOMP.

In today's episode, Kalen and Phillip introduce the MageTalk Fitness Challenge, review a lot of Magento Community events, hate on PWA, and get into some of the philosophy of eCommerce Platform Selection. Listen now!

In a surprise mid-week episode, the boys talk about the disruptive power of marketplaces, sustainable initiatives, and predict how AI might bring about the end of the world. Listen now!

Kalen and Phillip get into some serious gossip about the future of Adobe Open Source as they dive into the truth behind some high-level employee departures from Adobe. What does the future of open source look like? Listen now!

In this episode, the boys get giddy over a positive review, discuss the trials and tribulations of hiring remotely, and talk about the newly created consultant landscape that comes with GDPR.Listen Now!

The boys talk about some of the current posts and publications recently posted by members of the Magento Community, discuss escalating risk versus technical debt, and the difficulties in automating content creation.Listen now!

In an episode plagued by audio issues, the boys cross the 200 episode threshold by talking about PWA demos, Magento 1's trending pattern in market share, and the recent Magecart attack.

In one of the more technical episodes of late, Phillip is joined by James Zetlen as they explore the future of UI components, UPWARD and the importance of a common coding language, and some nitty-gritty details of PWA Studio. Listen Now!

Kalen and Phillip explore the complications surrounding a low budget Magento build, the concept of a luxury brand, and a possible Mage Reconciliation Day.

The boys discuss Kalen's sabbatical and recent trip to Canada, Magento's upmarket trajectory, and a possible change in what we call PWAs. There also might be some Imagine recaps in there somewhere...

The boys get into some nitty-gritty details about the recently announced Imagine keynote, a newly released database of useful Magento resources, and talk about overcoming issues within the partner ecosystem. Listen now!

Phillip sits down with Peter Manijak, Joseph Maxwell, Emily Dowd, and Caitlin Mekita and discusses everything about the new Magento 2 Certified Solution Specialist Exam. Listen now!

The boys sit down with Slava Krachuk and discuss his seven-month road trip in which he circumnavigated Africa.

The boys discuss Magento Order Management, Phillip dropping his album, Page Builder, and the new Adobe Commerce Cloud logo. Listen now!

Kalen and Phillip sit down with Lee Goldsworthy, a merchant who takes them through his extensive and impressive vetting of eCommerce platforms and guides us through his own journey towards settling on Magento.

The boys get into some of the nitty-gritty details of UPWARD, talk about some of their failures, and play Yes/Yes/No with some confusing tweets.  Listen Now!

Phillip talks about self-lacing shoes (of course), difficulties surrounding hiring Magento developers, and Kalen continues debate whether frontends matter in a headless world.  Listen Now!

The boys discuss the inaugural Magento Board of Directors, Magento Masters, the Top 50 Contributors, and Phillip's aching back.  Listen Now!

The boys are back to bantering about bananas, PWA, the landscape of development, and the fact that Kalen might be more of a Laravel guy... Listen Now!

The boys usher in their fifth year of MageTalk by talking about banana business ideas, the Magento Partner Kickoff, transparency, and how Phillip predicted the future. Listen Now!

Kalen goes for a walk, Phillip and Kalen talk about Lambda schools. The Magento Monday gets all caught up and Sergii Shymko goes hard on Accessibility. Listen now!

"For most people the building of a PWA may be more frustrating than not building on PWA, at least in January 2019" the guys dive into how Merchants have such awareness of PWA and how they're seeking it out. Also, Kalen goes for a walk.

The guys talk about Phillip's perspective on Magento 2.3. PLUS: hosted PWA PaaS? Is that even possible? PLUS: the Return of Joe Constant!

What does a well-written mission statement look like? What is the purpose of an organization? How do you define your purpose? These are all questions we take a look at when reviewing what the new Magento Association is all about. Listen now!

A preview of MMNY 2018 - PLUS zero-days and Magecart run rampant, Should Merchants have an SI to help build an internal team? Listen now!

A recap of MLEU 2018 takes us on a wild ride, Phillip talks about the new announcements and offerings from Adobe, and reviews the new Magento 2 Associate and Professional Developer Exams. plus: would you rather fight 1 duck-sized Marty Pachols or 100 Marty Pachol-sized ducks? LISTEN NOW!

Kalen and Phillip lament about patent trolls, La Croix, PHP End of Life, MAGENTO 2.2 end of life, and the state of long-term-support. Kalen fasts social media.

Phillip goes on a rant, the guys discuss what long-term-support means and the future of PHP 7.2 support in Magento 1, new concerns around End of Life of Magento 2.2 begin to circle. Listen now!

"We really do need to get to a place where the Magento community assumes the best until it sees the worst." - Matt Asay. In this episode Kalen and Phillip unpack the changes to the bug bounty program and the community reaction to it. Listen now!

Is open source the future of enterprise? Is open source a safe bet? This episode of MageTalk After Dark we run the gamut of IRCE review to PWA niceties.

Recorded LIVE on June 20, 2018 we dive deep into Magento certification exams for Magento 2 and beyond. Special guests include Peter Manijak from Magento U, Magento Master David Alger from Classy Llama, and Todd Christensen of Something Digital. Listen now!

Recorded LIVE on May 23, 2018 we interview Magento PWA developer Andrew Levine to talk about the future of the Magento platform. This was days after the Adobe / Magento acquisition news so the timing was incredible. Listen now!

The beginning of a long stint of live podcasts as recorded on Youtube, we sit down with Slava from Atwix before his long overland journey from Ukraine to South Africa! Atwix is a premier Magento partner and has done a wealth of work in the ecosystem.

In this special edition of MageTalk our very own Kalen Jordan appears on the Ecommerce Fuel podcast, a podcast for a community of engaged 6 and 7-figure digital commerce store owners.

"They thought I did it in Node.js and I did it in jQuery and they emoji'd me to death" Kalen reacts to the livestream and Phillip talks about the SD Accelerator, Magento 2.0 End of Life, long-term support, the coming onslaught of B2B into our Magento builds.

Upon deeper dive into the release of Magento 2.2.4 features Kalen and Phillip as the all-important question: how much bundling of 3rd party integrations in Magento is too much? Is there a line and does the 2.2.4 release cross it? Listen now!

Phillip and Kalen recap the first day and a half of Imagine 2018, and Kalen remarks how the entire Magento community is being asked to "level up" with a call to higher standards and higher goals from Magento CEO, Mark Lavelle. Listen now!

Eric Hileman from MageMojo and Mojo Stratus fame join us to get down and dirty in the nitties and the gritties about what makes scaling on AWS so difficult, and how running Magento in the cloud takes more expertise now than ever before. Listen now!

We hope you like talking about GDPR because this one is ALL. ABOUT. GDPR. Buckle up, buttercup.

What happens when Phillip forgets his headphones? Terrible audio quality, that's what! Recorded 30 days before Imagine 2018 and never released, this episode held up production due to its never-ending issues and basically almost never saw the light of day.

"Doing Magento Development with one hand tied behind your back" - the guys break it down and get real about Magento 2.3, the "Marathon Masters" program and more. Listen now!

"Why is Magento Enterprise so expensive?" Kalen and Phillip argue the finer points of a controversial topic. Kalen coins a catch-phrase, and Phillip forgets a real microphone and his beard mucks up the audio for the entire episode.

Kalen does his best Bill Clinton impersonation, the guys rap about GDPR - and we interview Kuba Zwolinski of Magebutton and Snowdog fame about the Magento Innovation Lab and how B2B can benefit from the Internet of Things. Listen now!

Kalen gets new glasses, will he finally see the light? PLUS an interview with Erfan Imani, accomplished Triathelete and developer of the Magento Innovation Lab-recognized Speqs augmented reality commerce experience.

The guys sit down with Jon Woodall of Space 48 to talk B2B, the challenge of professional services, the growth of Mage Titans, and employing Magento Masters. Listen now!

The guys rap about #magentohatmonday as the best of the Magento Community, Imagine MC Duties fall to Phillip, "Winkling" Conversion Rates, Healthcare Startups for Magento.

Kalen realizes that Australia is massive. The guys make a HUGE announcement. Phillip explains the super blue blood moon.

"24% of code delivered in Open Source was via the Magento Community" the guys dissect a blog from Magento CEO Mark Lavelle and recap Magento's Sales Kickoff! Listen now!

Phillip and Kalen talk #magemh - an initiative to raise awareness for mental health in our Magento community. Plus: Kalen craps on one of our sponsors, NRF2018, Time Tracking software and Tensorflow/AI/ML.

First episode of 2018 means reviewing community predictions! Kalen moves to Austin, Mage2.TV launches; new agency talent and what the heck is a neural network?

James Zetlen, Tony Brown of Space48 and Brendan Falkowski join us to talk Imagine 2017 announcements and frontend tooling as well as a possible future with PWAs

An episode you may have missed from earlier this year - an interview from MageTalk LIVE at Imagine 2017 with Mark Lavelle!

Phillip gets a Mage2.tv preview, Kalen ponders post-developer life, Phillip covers 2017 in review, and - how to go about picking a local Magento partner.

Magento competing with partners? Magento 2.2.2(.2.2.2.2.2.2) is Released; Phillip's all about that paper. Kalen gets a new mic technique.

What would trigger an M1 to M2 upgrade? Magento are having a content renaissance - a "content explosion"; Kalen buys Bitcoin

Rebecca "Becky" Brocton joins MageTalk co-host fame by stepping in for Kalen.

Phillip and Kalen celebrate 150 episodes by cursing Jamie Clark, speculating on M&A activity and looking forward to PWA-filled future of Magento

Phillip interviews some longtime Magento community members at Meet Magento Spain

The guys talk mullets, Shopify's claims, B2B getting hot, and a new thought experiment for 2018: The Deployed OSS Stack

Kalen interviews Josh Warren from Creatuity. Phillip apologizes for being too cynical.

MMNY update, Phillip discovers the Disney Running Community is toxic, Magento turned around its community engagement

Recorded LIVE at the inaugural San Diego Meetup we discuss Magento 2.2 in exacting detail. With Brian Lange, Future Commerce

Phillip drinks some hater-ade while speculating on the development of the one-touch feature by Creatuity

Brian Lange of the Future Commerce Podcast joins us to talk "Magento Office Hours", a new community initiative by SD

The guys sit down with Ben Robie of DEG to talk about the new Magento 2 Solution Specialist Exam