Martin Miles

What an amazing week it was! All three events took place at the same venue – Radisson Blu Convention Center within the largest shopping mall in the US – Mall of America in Minneapolis. The city has a significant Sitecore presence, not to say it is a place where OrderCloud originates from. MVP Summit On […]

In today’s fast-paced world of software development, automation is the key to efficiency. GitHub Actions is a powerful tool that can help you automate your workflow, saving you time and reducing errors. In this article, I’ll dive into what GitHub Actions is, how it works, and how you can leverage it to supercharge your development […]

The approach I am going to show you would work for any CI/CD pipeline with XM Cloud with some level of customization, however, I will be showing it on an example of GitHub Actions. Why? One would ask – if my codebase is located at GitHub, why on earth would I need to leverage GitHub […]

Perficient’s XM Cloud Jumpstart helps existing Sitecore customers who want to adopt XM Cloud create and execute a plan to move their MVC solutions to XM Cloud using Next.js and React or rapidly implement a greenfield solution according to the best industry standards from scratch. Regardless of your starting point, JumpStart delivers a better experience […]

Among several other XM Cloud platform enthusiasts, I was invited to take part in the XM Cloud beta certification. Taking into account that I was also involved in beta testing of XM Cloud Developer Fundamentals Training earlier in July (it is available now and I highly recommend the one), I would like to share overall […]

Hey Sitecore professionals, if you have not heard about Sifon for Sitecore – you must definitely check this out. I spent a lot of time building and testing it and can say Sifon is a definite Swiss army knife for local Sitecore development in the right arms, so you’d really like to learn why. Installing […]

In the world of Sitecore, excellence knows no gender boundaries. Here at Perficient’s Sitecore & Optimizely Business Unit, five remarkable women have achieved a prestigious milestone that sets them apart — they were chosen to be speakers at the highly regarded SUGCON (Sitecore User Group Conference) in 2023. Being selected as a speaker at this […]

XM Cloud is a live evolving platform – the development team releases new base images almost on a weekly basis, and new features are coming to the product regularly, which gets reflected in the underlying dependencies, as well as public starter kit templates such as XM Cloud Foundation Head Starter Kit. At the same time […]

This post is an overview of a composable Sitecore Send offering – an email marketing automation solution with no code campaign automation. Sitecore Send is an intelligent marketing automation platform with thousands of global customers that offers personalized customer experiences through email campaigns, workflows, and web personalization. It aims to be a global leader in […]

It somehow passed silent, but XM Cloud now also has ltsc2022 images which will also allow you running you local XM Cloud development in a Process isolation mode on Windows 11. I was routinely poking XM Cloud starterkit codebase, once came across a new parameter introduced within Init.ps1 script: [Parameter(Mandatory = $false, HelpMessage = “Specifies […]

Since recent you can benefit from Sitecore providing ltsc2022 images for your XM/XP solutions which I previously covered in a seperate article. However, looking at your cluster you may see not all the images are ltsc2022 compatible – there is a 1809-based Traefik image, which is coming separately outside of Sitecore docker registry. Now, it’s […]

Sitecore leaning toward a composable architecture with a mostly headless development model, where all the business logic is shifted to a head app, which also becomes a major point of integration, the majority of which requires some sort of authentication. TL;DR Do not work with an authentication token on a client! But what if I […]