Back-End Development

Drupal 11’s AI Features: What They Actually Mean for Your Team If you’ve been following the Drupal community lately, you’ve probably heard about the excitement with AI in Drupal 11 and the new Drupal AI Initiative. With over $100,000 in funding and 290+ AI modules already available, this will be a game changer. But here’s […]

While working on one of my projects, I needed to implement an autocomplete box using Mapbox Geocoding APIs in a React/Next.js application. The goal was to filter a list of hospitals based on the selected location. The location results from the API include coordinates, which I compared with the coordinates of the hospitals in my […]

In recent years, AI chatbots like ChatGPT have gone from fun tools for answering questions to serious helpers in workplaces, education, and even personal decision-making. With ChatGPT-5 now being the latest and most advanced version, it’s no surprise that people are asking a critical question: “Is my personal data safe when I use ChatGPT-5?” First, […]

In modern enterprise systems, stability and fault tolerance are not optional; they are essential. One proven approach to ensure robustness is the Circuit Breaker pattern, widely used in API development to prevent cascading failures. HCL Commerce takes this principle further by embedding circuit breakers into its HCL Cache to effectively manage Redis failures.  What Is […]

Ready to go from “meh” to “whoa” with your AI coding assistant? Here’s how to get started. You’ve installed GitHub Copilot. Now what? Here’s how to actually get it to work for you – not just with you. In the blog Using GitHub Copilot in VS Code, we have already seen how to use GitHub […]

Machine Learning (ML) is no longer limited to research labs — it’s actively driving decisions in real estate, finance, healthcare, and more. But deploying and managing ML models in production is a different ballgame. That’s where MLOps comes in. In this blog, we’ll walk through a practical MLOps learning project — building a House Price […]

Let’s be honest – coding isn’t always easy. Some days, you’re laser-focused, knocking out feature after feature. Other days, you stare at your screen, wondering, “What’s the fastest way to write this function?” “Is there a cleaner way to loop through this data?” That’s where GitHub Copilot comes in. If you haven’t tried it yet, […]

What is GitHub Copilot? GitHub Copilot is an AI-powered programming assistant that assists developers by generating code based on their comments and existing code. Now natively integrated into Visual Studio 2022, it supports multiple languages, including C#. Steps to Set Up GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio 2022 Prerequisites Visual Studio 2022 – Version 17.10 or later .NET […]

Running a Sitecore Docker instance is a game-changer for developers. It streamlines deployments, accelerates local setup, and ensures consistency across environments. However, performance can suffer – even on high-end laptops – if Docker resources aren’t properly optimized, especially after a hardware upgrade. I recently faced this exact issue. My Sitecore XP0 instance, running on Docker, became […]

Intro 📖 In this post I’d like to share a workflow “attacher” implementation I built on a recent Sitecore XM Cloud project. The solution attaches workflows to new items based on a configurable list of template and path rules. It was fun to build and ended up involving a couple Sitecore development mechanisms I hadn’t […]

This is Part 3 of a three-part series (links at the bottom). In Part Two, we moved from concept to execution by building the foundation of a Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) system. We set up a Postgres database with pgvector, defined a schema, wrote a script to embed and chunk text, and validated vector search with cosine similarity. In […]

This blog post will discuss MultiSite validation for either ContentArea or LinkItemCollection, which are both capable of storing multiple items. Although we can use the custom MaxItem attribute to validate the ContentArea or LinkItemCollection, the problem arises when the same property is used for multiple sites with different validation limits. In a recent project, we […]