The Coaching Program I can see the quizzical look on your face with the question, “Why is she calling this pandemic an Agile coach?” My answer is: “Yes because it taught us agile principles, and imbibed agile mindset in us.” Let me explain in detail: During this pandemic: How many of us responded to change […]
Innovation + Product Development
Is GraphQL Right for Your Application Architecture?
Your mobile applications and web applications need to get their data from somewhere, and that somewhere is most often your API layer. So how you design and build your APIs will have a big impact on the success of your mobile and web applications and therefore on the happiness of your customers. One key decision […]
Despite Supply Chain Challenges, Automotive Innovation Will Drive Ahead in 2022
It’s not news that 2021 wasn’t an easy year for the automotive industry. While online car sales jumped from less than two percent to around 30 percent, chip shortages and other supply chain issues left many car dealerships with extremely low inventories and longer-than-usual wait periods. But the woes have not slowed down innovation; here […]
How to Understand Viewport Units(VW & VH) in CSS
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) Viewport is defined as the visible area on a window screen that refers to the displays of the devices. It’s been a couple years since CSS originally introduced viewport units. Viewport units let you size items and fonts as a proportion of the user’s screen’s total width or height (the viewport). […]
PACE New Features: Sentiment Analysis, Scheduled Reports, and More!
Perficient’s Amazon Connect Experience (PACE) solution amplifies the power of Amazon Connect with several added features and managed services. As we continue to develop and customize our software to your needs, we will post blogs with new features and processes we have added, changed, or fixed. To learn more about PACE, visit our dedicated landing […]
The Great Mobile Ecosystem Awakening: Looking Back on 2021’s Top Mobile Trends
Mobile Apps are entering a stage of maturity to the point of ubiquity. A comprehensive approach is needed to meet the rapid shifts in consumer behaviors and the underlying technology that drives these experiences. As the mobile ecosystem matures and new capabilities emerge, user expectations have never been higher. Let’s recap the past year in […]
It’s Okay to Fail
One of the benefits of taking an agile approach to product development is the opportunity to make mistakes, to learn from them and to improve. Our sprints and frequent releases work to our advantage, giving us the chance to inspect and adapt. We can fail fast, reflect on the experience and quickly change direction to […]
Maintain your Azure Infrastructure with Terraform
Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool owned by HashiCorp, which allows you to build, deploy, change, and manage infrastructure using code. It helps you define resources and infrastructure in human-readable, declarative configuration files and manages your infrastructure’s lifecycle. Code is the instruction written in a human-readable format with extension (.tf) or in (.tf.JSON), […]
Don’t Panic: Log4Shell
2021-12-29: Updates related to CVE-2021-44832 2021-12-20: Updates related to CVE-2021-45105 We, like many of you, have spent our weekend and the start of this week triaging the risks posed by CVE-2021-44228 (aka Log4Shell). As we’ve been checking and patching our internal systems, products and client systems, some colleagues and I have made a few observations […]
HCL Commerce Redis Solution Creates a Game Changing Experience
HCL Commerce’s Version 9 provides many great benefits for eCommerce businesses. One of the benefits is its cloud-native architecture, which allows dynamic scalability and improves the speed and agility of deployments. It’s no surprise that customers that are still on older versions of the product are rushing to upgrade. This switch to the newest version […]
Optimizely DXP Deployment API – Updates for .NET 5.0 and EpiCloud 1.0.0
Yesterday (December 8th 2021), Optimizely sneakily released their very first major update for the EpiCloud Powershell Module; Version 1.0.0. This is great timing, as I was also about to release an update that would provide a fix for Azure.Storage (no longer relevant – ill explain why further in this post), as well as provide updates […]
Optimizely CMS 12 – .NET 5.0 – Build/Deploy in DevOps (YAML)
The second I created a NET 5 project, the first anxiety-filled thought that ran through my head was something along the lines of… “How the heck am I going to build/deploy this to anywhere useful?!” As I mentioned in my previous post about the DXCS006 error code, this is one of the first times that […]