Running Apache Jackrabbit should feel boring in the best way. Here are the habits that keep a JCR repository fast, safe, and predictable. Plenty of the buzz is around Oak and fresh releases of content platforms, yet many teams still rely on classic Apache Jackrabbit 2.x for production content stores,…
Year: 2016
Why We Picked Broadleaf for a B2C Build
The day the cart fell over We had a cart melt on a Tuesday. Not a fun kind of melt. The Switch Product Variant Now button spiked traffic, the promo rules misfired, and we watched a checkout page take a long coffee break right when the email campaign hit send….
Making DAM useful for editors
Editors keep telling me the same thing. We do not want another place to babysit files. We want our stuff to show up where we write, with the right names, the right sizes, and the right rights. Perspective first, buttons later Most digital asset management tools were bought to fix…
Logging Best Practices in Java
Logging is that quiet teammate who remembers everything you forget in production. Why logging still wins If you build Java services for the web, logs are your second debugger. You can not attach a profiler to every box, and sometimes the bug shows up only under load or at three…
Designing aem workflows that scale
Creation date: 2016 05 16 Story led opening Friday night at a media company. Editors are bulk dropping a new season of trailers into DAM. The DAM Update Asset model wakes up, the queue grows, and your author goes from smooth to syrup. Thumbnails crawl in. Someone tries to publish…
Content Models that Scale in AEM
Is your AEM content model ready for five new sites, ten languages, and a redesign by the next quarter? Do your authors fight the tool when moving a component from a product page into a blog article? Are your queries slow the moment you add real content and not just…
Aem workflows for editors
AEM workflows sound like a power move for content teams, and they can be when they are shaped for editors first. In Adobe Experience Manager, the moment you connect workflows to everyday actions like review, approval, translation, and publish, you touch the heart of how editors work. The trick is…
Adobe Campaign for Email at Scale
Adobe Campaign sits at that tricky spot where marketing dreams meet production reality. Everyone wants email at scale with real personalization, fast launches, and clean reporting. Then the calendar hits you with five promos, a site release, and a list import that showed up ten minutes before send. With GDPR…
Adobe launch makes analytics setup lighter
Adobe made analytics setup feel lighter this month. Less copy pasting of scripts across templates. Fewer late night sprints chasing missing variables. If you have lived through s_code upgrades and plugin roulette, this change feels like a breath of fresh air. With Dynamic Tag Management maturing, the Marketing Cloud ID…
Interpreting Spikes without Panic
Your traffic chart just went vertical and your heart did the same. Before you ping the team at one in the morning, breathe and open Google Analytics with a plan. Start with the basics that calm the room. Open Real Time and verify that the spike is not already gone,…