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I hope this article will help many to save their eCommerce problem and to optimize their code. Magento is a wonderful platform to kick start your e-commerce endeavors. But the worst part is its development flow. I will introduce you the 5 worst Magento development practices followed by detailed example. 1.  Collections – query results limitation To improve code performance and scalability remember to apply limitation on the collection’s query results — it’s much better to do  $collection->getSize()  instead of  $collection->count()  or  count($collection)  because that ways, all of the items will be loaded from the database and than iterated. 2.  SQL queries inside a loop Bad practice is to load Magento models inside a loop. Running SQL query is very expensive operation and doing it in a loop tends to make it even worse. Instead of doing that we could use data collections to load models and then process it.  To be careful when working with collection to do not exceed mem