Innovation + Product Development

Azure Red Hat OpenShift (ARO) provides enterprises with a number of benefits, including the ability to simplify processes, focus on development, harness the power of DevOps, and reduce time to market. With ARO, you are able to iterate faster, deliver features quicker, and reach your market at a faster pace. ARO is a fully managed […]

Cloud offers undeniable benefits when it comes to building cost-effective agile solutions. Enterprise-wide pushes to modernize application stacks have added fuel to cloud migration initiatives. As more and more monoliths are decomposed and redesigned using a distributed microservices architecture, the large portfolio of cloud-native services makes developing and deploying in the cloud faster and economical. […]

Four of our technical architects joined 1,900 other attendees at the Red Hat Technical Exchange North America in Orlando, Florida, Oct. 14-18. This is the first time the Technical Exchange has been open to Red Hat partners – historically, it was a Red Hat-only event.   The weeklong conference gave attendees a chance to network with Red Hat’s […]

I like seeing patterns across domains. Consider machine learning models and employees. Both models and people can be appraised. What is an employee appraisal? Employee “performance appraisal has three basic functions: (1) to provide adequate feedback to each person on his or her performance; (2) to serve as a basis for modifying or changing behavior […]

Recently, we had a particularly challenging problem where an AEM website needed to support up to several hundred thousand logins within approximately a 2-hour window. To support this level of load, we couldn’t have user profiles get populated as the users logged in. Instead, the team created a job to populate the users and groups […]

The ability to make better business decisions relies on better access to information, which companies are finding through the implementation of data lakes. Data lakes are centralized repositories that can be used to store all of a company’s structured and unstructured data at any scale. They allow businesses to rapidly harness more data from more […]

React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces (UIs). One of the important aspects of building UIs is that you must be able to react (get it?) to user interaction. React has its way to handle events, but it’s up to the developers to handle the value of the this keyword inside the handle […]

Coding, deployment, monitoring, staging; everything within the software development lifecycle should be performance-oriented. If not, one of them quickly becomes a weak link and will negatively impact the rest. Maintaining this strict level of performance requires complete visibility, which means monitoring every stage and aligning stakeholders with the performance engineering strategy. In this article, we […]

Did you know there are properties you can’t see in your Apache Sling / Adobe Experience Manager repository? Jackrabbit OAK includes the concept of hidden nodes and properties. Hidden nodes and properties are prefixed with a colon and are not visible to consuming applications. Examples include :nestedCugs and :topCugCnt which are used to store the […]

As stakeholders in Colombia push for more sustainable and robust practices in CSR (corporate social responsibility), the importance of this necessary organizational movement is now being more widely recognized across the country. CSR in Colombia has traditionally been focused on philanthropic efforts with very little long-term impact. It is often seen as an endeavor for […]

As demand for high-performing, long-lasting software increases, time and materials contracts have become much more common in the software development outsourcing world, but there are still a few doubts about how their open-ended structure can be beneficial. Time and materials contracts generally involve the ability to work directly with an outsourcing company’s development team at […]

Here’s a neat trick for AEM developers and architects: you can create a diagram representation of the service dependencies using Composum. For those not familiar, Composum is an Open-Source project based on Apache Sling. To create a service dependency diagram, you will need to install two additional dependencies: Composum Sling Core Console Composum Sling Core […]