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Introduction: Spring Cloud Stream is a framework for building message-driven microservice applications. Spring Cloud Stream builds upon Spring Boot and uses Spring Integration to provide connectivity to message brokers. It provides configuration of middleware, introducing the concepts of publish-subscribe, consumer groups, and partitions.   Example: To use SCF (Spring Cloud Function) with in SCS(Spring Cloud […]

Having clear and consistent communication is key to accomplishing your business goals. It’s even more important to have open communication between your business technologies to ensure your organization continues to run as is, if not better. In modern technology architecture, performance and decoupled integration is a key factor of application development. Message queues can significantly […]

Heading Overview  For those that may not be familiar with heading levels, here is a quick run-down. Titles on your web page will have heading (<H>) tags to indicate their level of importance. Web developers use <H> tags for page titles to structure the content of the page. Not only are <H> tags used for […]

Event driven architecture is creating lot of buzz in the market for all obvious good reasons. If you are building complex business processing applications where the process flows triggers based on an event performed by an action – Event driven style would be a fit. Elasticity , Scalability , Evolutionary and fault tolerance characteristics would […]

Need some C# help inside your SXA rendering variant? You’ve come to the right place. This blog post will explain how you can employ the use of a C# helper class in your rendering variant. You should only use this sparingly. If you find yourself overusing C# here, you should consider implementing your component as […]

Valdis Iljuconoks previously helped me understand how to effectively implement AllowedTypes restrictions with interfaces, something like  [AllowedTypes(typeof(INestedContent))]– which is a beautiful solution for building a block library. This makes our blocks and their Content Areas only concern themselves with specific interfaces. In our case, we usually have layers such as IPageContent (for stripes, grid structures, […]

Recently, I published a blog post regarding AEM Customization: Show Unpublished Reference Alert for Content Path where I showed how to customize the Pathfield and Xffield resourceType. In doing this, I was able to showcase how to create a notification for the content author as to whether the selected content path is published or not. […]

A year and a half ago I published an updated view of Digital Responsibility as part of our Digital Essentials series. It challenged the notion that digital responsibility starts and ends with data privacy, and introduced the idea of incorporating accessibility, diversity, and inclusion into digital responsibility mandates. While some organizations had started considering these […]

I’m sure if you haven’t seen, you’ve at least heard of the infamous sales scene from the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross. But if you haven’t, in this particular scene the character played by Alec Baldwin rants for 7+ minutes on why the under-motivated real estate agents should “Always Be Closing.” The scene itself is […]

The stakes have never been higher for your business to adapt and evolve. But how do you accelerate and scale your transformation cost-effectively? The answer – optimized global delivery. Follow this series and learn more about our nearshore software development capabilities from several members of our global consulting team in Colombia. In just over 20 years, Agile methodologies […]

Starting a new language version in Sitecore doesn’t have to be painful. Sitecore Powershell Extensions can enable your team to copy and manipulate languages in bulk with ease. It’s a favorite of every content team I’ve had.

Health checks are an important part of containerized application deployments in Red Hat OpenShift. In OpenShift 4.5, Red Hat added startup probes as a third option besides readiness and liveness probes. Also, it brought the configuration of these checks back to the web interface, making it easier for developers. In this article, I’ll describe the […]