What is Accessibility? Accessibility is the practice of making your website usable for everyone. If the technology is accessible, each user can interact with it in ways that work best for them. The standard guidelines for web content accessibility are organized around four principles The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) are organized by four main principles, These four principles […]
Innovation and Product Development
Managing the Uncertainty and Complexity in Software Development – Discovering the Problem (part 1/3)
This is the first post of a blog series which summarizes the lessons I learned during a technological migration with high uncertainty and complexity. In this post, I’ll talk about how I discovered a problem. Recently, during a migration from a client’s project, I had the opportunity to apply and improve my skill set: technical, […]
Is Your Postman Delivering Too Much? Postman Alternatives
I’ve been a long-time user of Postman, and I’ve seen it grow throughout the years. All I need from Postman is a REST client to check my API endpoints. Recently though, as I opened Postman and had to click through three offers for services I will never use, I started thinking that I should take […]
Automating Front-End Builds with a Windows Shortcut
If you’re a front-end developer, you know that building and deploying your code can be a time-consuming process. But what if you could automate the entire process with just a few clicks? In this blog post, we’ll show you how to use a Windows shortcut to checkout the master branch, clean up your repository with […]
Introduction to Kafka and MongoDB Integration
Introduction: Apache Kafka is a distributed streaming platform that enables businesses to build real-time streaming applications. First developed at LinkedIn in 2010, it has become one of the most widely used messaging systems for big data and real-time analytics. Kafka can process and transmit massive amounts of data in real-time, and its design ensures fault […]
Perficient’s Sitecore Hackathon 2023 Entries: XM Cloud and Generating Content with AI
This year’s Sitecore Hackathon gave three ideas for teams to compete on: Best Enhancement to SXA Headless, Best Enhancement to XM Cloud and Best Migration Module to move from XP to XM Cloud or Content Hub One. Perficient was lucky to have two teams of three ready to compete, and we kicked things off with […]
Automation Testing – Demo Websites to test your skills
On the link bellow you will find a list of websites ready and designed to enhance automation testing skills and to practice with different technologies. Automation Testing_ Demo websites to practice or test your skills
Measure Twice, Cut Once. Plan Twice, Build Once
In our first blog in this series, Blockchain: The Secret Sauce to Supply Chain Visibility, we covered why visibility is so crucial in the supply chain for all parties and gave examples of firms using distributed ledgers to help improve customer service, reduce inventory costs, provide proactive status updates, and help mitigate risk. Per our […]
Speed Up AEM Developer Onboarding with Container-Driven Local Instances
Customization is a key aspect of any AEM-powered solution. Installing AEM instances on developers’ local machines is usually required and recommended by Adobe. This allows for the fast creation of components, templates, and other project-specific items. The local AEM instances mimic an organization’s integration or dev environment instances with custom patch levels, OSGi configurations, data […]
SQL Tuning
In D & A Projects, building efficient SQL Queries is critical to achieving the Extraction and Load Batch cycles to complete faster and to meet the desired SLAs. The below observations are towards following the approaches to ensure writing SQL queries that meet the Best Practices to facilitate performance improvements. Tuning Approach Pre-Requisite Checks Before […]
Performance Tuning Guidelines – Informatica PowerCenter
Quite often, while building the Data Integration Pipeline, Performance is a critical factor. The factors below are vital for following the guidelines while working on ETL processing with Informatica PowerCenter. The following items are to be considered during ETL DEV: Pre-Requisite Checks and Analysis Basic Tuning Guidelines Additional Tuning Practices Tuning Approach Pre-Requisite Checks/Analysis Before […]
Using PowerShell Scripts to Help the Client Make Informed Decisions
Every week, you buy broccoli at the grocery store to make for the family dinner. If you knew that 3 of your 5 family members didn’t like broccoli and never ate it, would you still buy it every week? If your client constantly funnels effort towards a component that was rarely used or in a […]