PrestaShop Behind a Load Balancer: What Breaks and How to Fix It

PrestaShop Behind a Load Balancer: What Breaks and How to Fix It PrestaShop on a single server is fine. PrestaShop behind a load balancer with auto-scaling nodes — that's where the fun begins. The framework was never built for this, and it shows. I've been running a B2B store on PrestaShop for several years now. ~300k SKUs, hundreds of orders a day, auto-scaling on GCP. Here's what went wrong and how we dealt with it. 800 Queries Per Product Page. Yes, Really. A single product page in PrestaShop