Friday, November 25, 2022

One of the key differences between working headlessly in Sitecore XM 10.2 and Sitecore XM Cloud is the introduction of Experience Edge. When working against Edge, there is no Web Database and there are no Content Delivery (CD) servers. Instead, when you publish a snapshot of your layout data is stored in our Content Delivery Network (CDN), this enables super-fast, low-latency, globally scaled delivery of your content to your head. However, it does change how you must think about your development processes......

Thursday, November 24, 2022

The Developer Advocacy team here at Sitecore recently completed a project to migrate the existing Sitecore MVP site, built with Sitecore XM 10.2, to XM Cloud.......

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

I recently had an issue where I needed to debug a Sitecore instance running in a Docker container. I needed to access the environment variables of the container, but didn't have access to the cluster to see the values.......

Monday, September 26, 2022

We've recently been working on a migration project, moving, and rebuilding a series of sites to run against Sitecore XM Cloud. One of the key requirements was to ensure that all the sites could be edited in both Sitecore Experience Editor, and the next-generation editing interface included with XM Cloud - Sitecore Pages. This blog post will cover the steps we took to get this working.......

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Our team have recently been working on a project to migrate the existing Sitecore MVP site, to run against XM Cloud. One part of this involved upgrading the version of the Rendering Host, which was previously built using ASP.NET Core 3.1 to the latest version - .NET6......

Wednesday, February 9, 2022

Headstart is an example solution, showing you an opinionated method for building out a B2B shopping experience targeting your web channel, powered by Sitecore OrderCloud. You don’t have to follow Headstart when building your experiences using Sitecore OrderCloud, but it is meant show some example patterns that can be used to help you develop the functionality you need.......

Monday, December 13, 2021

I’ve recently been working on a web project built using ASP.NET Core. One of the features we implemented was to automatically redirect all traffic coming in on HTTP over to HTTPS as it’s far more preferable for a heap of reasons.......

Wednesday, December 8, 2021

We’ve been working recently on an updated version of the Sitecore MVP Website. This site has been used for the MVP application process which has just been run, and we used an external federated authentication provider to allow people to create their accounts for the application process.......

Thursday, November 18, 2021

I ran into an interesting issue this week when working on the rebuild of the Sitecore MVP site. To give a bit of background, this project is a rebuild of the MVP site using Sitecore’s DotNet rendering Host and is running on AKS.......

Monday, October 11, 2021

I hit an issue today attempting to install a clean Sitecore 10.1 XM instance into a new AKS cluster. I followed the steps & instructions just the same as before, but when I went to test the sites, they all gave me a 404. This led me down a bit of a K8s Ingress debugging hole!......