Senior engineering consulting for SaaS, e-commerce, and AI systems. 12+ years building production-grade platforms across India, UK, and South Africa.https://savanp.com/en-gbhttps://savanp.com/blog/ai-feature-preflight-checklist/https://savanp.com/blog/ai-feature-preflight-checklist/Seven questions that take 30 minutes and catch most of the reasons AI features fail in production. If you cannot answer all of them in plain language, you are not ready to ship.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/autonomous-vs-constrained-agents/https://savanp.com/blog/autonomous-vs-constrained-agents/Agentic got conflated with autonomous, and the AI crowd has been chasing the wrong thing ever since. Here is what reliable agents actually look like in production.Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-2-4-9-release-notes/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-2-4-9-release-notes/A practical breakdown of the Magento 2.4.9 release — PHP 8.5 support, Symfony 7.4, Zend_Cache removal, infrastructure additions, and what to check before upgrading.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-cron-pileup/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-cron-pileup/A diagnostic walkthrough of the most common cause of stuck cron queues in Magento 2 systems, and how to fix it without restarting everything.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-security-apsb26-49/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-security-apsb26-49/APSB26-49 was released May 12, 2026. It covers critical vulnerabilities including arbitrary code execution and denial of service. Affected version list and fixed versions inside.Wed, 13 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/multi-region-vendor-onboarding/https://savanp.com/blog/multi-region-vendor-onboarding/A behind-the-scenes look at what happens when a multi-billion rand enterprise onboards a small independent consultant, and how to be ready for it.Tue, 12 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-dynamics-365-integration/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-dynamics-365-integration/A technical walkthrough of Magento–Dynamics 365 integration — sync patterns, middleware choices, B2B considerations, and the real failure modes I see in production systems.Tue, 05 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-ai-extensions-2026/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-ai-extensions-2026/A practical look at the Magento AI extension landscape — content generation, semantic search, chatbots, and admin tools. What works, where to start, and what to watch for before deploying.Mon, 04 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-hyva-migration-guide/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-hyva-migration-guide/A practical guide to Hyvä theme migration — what breaks, what stays the same, how to audit third-party extensions, and how to plan a phased rollout without disrupting production.Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-polyshell-vulnerability/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-polyshell-vulnerability/PolyShell allows unauthenticated file upload via the REST API on all Magento versions up to 2.4.9-alpha2. No official patch exists for production versions. Here is what it is and what you can do today.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-pos-integration/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-pos-integration/A practical look at connecting Magento to a point-of-sale system — inventory sync, order flow, offline mode, and the real-world failure modes that cause problems months after go-live.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-security-apsb26-05/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-security-apsb26-05/APSB26-05 was released March 10, 2026. Multiple critical vulnerabilities including privilege escalation and arbitrary code execution. Affected versions and how to patch.Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-product-row-id/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-product-row-id/Why Adobe Commerce uses row_id instead of entity_id for products, and the correct way to retrieve it using MetadataPool — without hardcoding field names.Thu, 05 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-elasticsuite-setup-upgrade-error/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-elasticsuite-setup-upgrade-error/The smile_elasticsuitecatalog_search_query_product_position table not found error during setup:upgrade has a one-line root cause and a clean patch fix.Wed, 09 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-guest-cart-billing-address-api/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-guest-cart-billing-address-api/How to set and retrieve billing address on a guest cart using the V1/guest-carts/:cartId/billing-address endpoint — request format, response, and the gotchas.Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-customer-id-from-bearer-token/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-customer-id-from-bearer-token/The correct way to resolve a customer ID from an Authorization header bearer token in a Magento 2 custom module — using UserTokenReader, not manual JWT parsing.Wed, 15 May 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-check-table-exists/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-check-table-exists/Using isTableExists() to guard SQL operations against missing tables — why it matters in upgrade scripts, install patches, and any code that touches optional tables.Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-insert-from-select/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-insert-from-select/How to write INSERT IGNORE INTO ... SELECT queries the Magento way using insertFromSelect — cleaner than raw SQL and handles duplicate strategies correctly.Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://savanp.com/blog/magento-composer-patch-error/https://savanp.com/blog/magento-composer-patch-error/When composer-patches throws a type error instead of applying your patch, the problem is almost always in your composer.json — not in the patch file itself.Wed, 25 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT