Thursday, September 26, 2024

I recently wrote a blog post talking a new repository structure we are migration to for the XM Cloud Starter kits. As I mentioned in that post, my next task was to migrate our XM Cloud Introduction repository over to that new structure, and this post is going to over the tasks I needed to perform.......

Friday, September 20, 2024

Anyone who watches the Sitecore XM Cloud Foundation head repositories would have seen this PR get approved on the dev repo recently. This has implemented a significant restructuring, aimed at providing a more logical and streamlined approach to building sites with XM Cloud. This update brings several key changes and benefits for developers. ......

Monday, July 29, 2024

I recently made a small change to the CI/CD process for the XM Cloud Introduction repository that we maintain. Since we first built the project it has been using GitHub Actions for its CI/CD processes, and leveraging the Sitecore CLI for the XM Cloud deployment elements......

Thursday, July 27, 2023

Today I had to go through the process of migrating the XM Cloud Introduction repository to a new Nuget feed. This was required as the old feed was no longer available, and we needed to move to a new one on short notice. This post will cover the steps I needed to complete to migrate the solution to the new feed......

Wednesday, April 19, 2023

In case you haven’t heard, Docker has slowly been pushing people to migrate the latest version of Docker Compose, which is `v2`. This has culminated in the end of life for `v1`, which means that the functionality will be removed from all Docker Desktop versions as of Jun 2023.......

Wednesday, November 30, 2022

In my last post, I talked about Custom Content Resolvers and how that functionality isn’t available with XM Cloud – but how you probably don’t need them for a large portion of the scenarios being created as you can get a long way with the OOTB Content Resolvers provided by the platform. What happens when you do need some complex functionality that they can’t provide though? Well, that’s what we’re going to be talking about here......

Monday, November 28, 2022

In my last post, I talked about Custom Content Resolvers and how that functionality isn’t available with XM Cloud – but how you probably don’t need them for a large portion of the scenarios being created as you can get a long way with the OOTB Content Resolvers provided by the platform. What happens when you do need some complex functionality that they can’t provide though? Well, that’s what we’re going to be talking about here......

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.......

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.......