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 […]
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Lessons from the Front: Configurable Workflow Rules for New Items in XM Cloud
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 […]
Tool‑Augmented RAG Chatbot: GPT‑4, pgVector & Next.js
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 […]
Why Databricks SQL Serverless is not PCI-DSS compliant
Databricks supports a wide range of compliance standards to meet the needs of highly regulated industries, including: HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) FedRAMP High & Moderate DoD IL5 IRAP (Australia) GDPR (EU) CCPA (California) However, I was surprised to read that Databricks Serverless workloads are not covered for PCI-DSS (Databricks PCI […]
AI in Sitecore: How Artificial Intelligence is Shaping Modern Digital Experiences
The world of digital experiences is evolving more quickly than ever before, and let’s be honest, artificial intelligence (AI) is more than just a trendy term these days. It’s becoming a business necessity. AI is no longer a “nice to have” for companies that use Sitecore as their Digital Experience Platform (DXP). It’s turning into […]
WCAG Compliance for Drupal Sites with UserWay
As a Drupal developer with over four years of experience, I’ve worked on numerous projects where accessibility was a priority. Ensuring websites are accessible to people with disabilities is not only a best practice but also often a legal requirement. The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) provide a framework for achieving this, and tools like […]
AI at the Service of Talent: Building Evaluator Agents with Copilot and n8n
Abstract This article explores how artificial intelligence can transform technical evaluation processes in talent acquisition, particularly in the software development field. Through the Dessert & Learn session, two complementary approaches are presented: a basic one using prompts in Copilot for automated code analysis, and a more advanced one using intelligent agents built with n8n and the RAG […]
Multisite Maximum Item Validation for Content Area or Link Collection in Optimizely CMS-12.
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 […]
Unboxing AG-Grid: A Quick Start Guide for Angular Developers
What is a Grid and Why Ag-Grid? A grid is one of the best methods to present data in a structured and understandable way. At a glance, grids help extract concise information efficiently. When working with complex data tables in Angular applications, AG Grid Angular is an excellent choice for developers.AG-Grid is a popular package […]
What is the Model Context Protocol?
You can think of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as USB for large language models (LLMs), allowing an LLM to interact with a variety of external systems in a uniform manner. It was developed by Anthropic to solve the fundamental problem of getting a text generator (LLM) to perform real-world actions on a user’s behalf. […]
Reclaim Space: Delete Docker Orphan Layers
If you’re using Sitecore Docker containers on Windows, you’ve probably noticed your disk space mysteriously shrinking over time. I recently encountered this issue myself and was surprised to discover the culprit: orphaned Docker layers – leftover chunks of data that no longer belong to any container or image. My Setup This happened while I was […]
Postgres RAG Stack: Embedding, Chunking & Vector Search
This is Part 2 of a three-part series (links at the bottom). The GitHub repo can be checked out here. Postgres RAG Stack brings together Postgres, pgVector, and TypeScript to power fast, semantic search. In Part One, we covered the theory behind semantic search: how embeddings convert meaning into vectors, how vector databases and indexes enable […]