Back-End Development

Working in a global digital consultancy, our colleagues thrive on our challenging, fast-paced projects. And over the past twelve weeks, the students in Perficient’s Bright Paths program surely know a thing or two about fast-paced project execution! Within mere weeks, 22 women are in the final stages of completing a Perficient-sponsored coding bootcamp in Detroit; […]

One of the strong features of Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) is creating UI content using the content authoring capability with Core Components.  As contents are created, they are stored in a Jackrabbit Oak repository as resources, which is then fetched and rendered as HTML content.  When out-of-the-box content authoring components do not suit the needs […]

Are you looking for ‘How to do looping in XML files’? Then yes, you are at the right place to get more information regarding how to retrieve data from XML files with multiple tags to process/transform using one of the advanced component in Talend studio known as tXMLMap Component. Before going into actual concept of […]

Sitecore Registry is a place where Sitecore stores user data (i.e. data related to the user editing preferences and choices).   In some cases, setting a user registry to a default value each time the user logs into the CM would remove confusion and stress.   For example, if you set the checkbox raw values to unchecked […]

Implementing static code analysis might seem like a daunting task. In some cases, this may be true depending on logistics, timing, and other factors. There is however a quick and easy way to implement it for AEM projects. Using open-source tools such as CheckStyle, SpotBugs, PMD, and JaCoCo you will pay nothing and reap all the […]

I love writing code. What I love more is writing less. Less code means fewer unit tests because you have much less coverage to hit. Well organized, modularized, short, and concise. How do you achieve this? Good software engineering practices, code generators, and leveraging existing frameworks and APIs. Leveraging Frameworks and APIs As an AEM […]

Episerver’s Personalization feature provides a way for content authors and marketers to provide personalized experiences on their website. Visitors can be assigned to groups through the use of special criteria, and marketers can deliver targeted content to users based on their visitor group. It’s a great feature that invites marketers and authors to deliver unique […]

When you work at Perficient, you’re never “in it alone.” We pride ourselves on having a collaborative, supportive environment dedicated to fostering both career and personal growth. Perficient’s Agile Community is one of the latest ways colleagues can connect with each other, breaking down walls and collaborating globally in a whole new way. “It makes […]

Intro This is more of a proof of concept to show that you can read from custom and not-often-used data sources into Power BI. As you go through this small showcase/tutorial, I encourage you to think about what type of data would benefit from you being able to look at it in a cohesive dashboard. […]

Seamless order to fulfillment is the crux of any good experience. A brand’s reputation and longevity, as well customer loyalty and adoption, often hinges on the success of how order management (OM) is rooted in an organization. The interaction with users at their point of need is the tipping point and often dictates success or […]

This blog post is about Kafka’s consumer resiliency when we are working with apache Kafka and spring boot. As a scenario, let’s assume a Kafka consumer, polling the events from a PackageEvents topic. service class (Package service) is responsible for storing the consumed events into a database. Note: Here in the place of the database, […]

In my latest AEM project, I had a particular challenge with some front-end code, an AJAX call, and CORS.   While running the site on localhost, the search code attempted to make an AJAX call to a search API. The API would not allow my localhost site. This meant that front-end developers had a hard […]