You just went live with your e-commerce solution hosted in the cloud and started getting some traffic. As times passes, the number of people shopping online on your website increases exponentially. You start noticing some server downtime and visitors are starting to get frustrated with your services. How would you
Application Insights allows you to monitor your website performance and log messages. You can use it with many web platforms including Sitecore. When you install Sitecore using the Azure installation package, Application Insights is automatically setup by the installation scripts. This is not the case when you install Sitecore on
If you have a configuration file to define a custom Solr index that meets the following: * inherits the node documentOptions from the default defaultSolrIndexConfiguration. * defines an AddIncludedTemplate node. This configuration is not allowed. Here is an example: <configuration> <sitecore> <contentSearch> <indexConfigurations> <
This is the final part of a devlog I started last year. Now that the upgrade I was working on went live, I can finally wrap this series with the following topics: * Understanding general post-upgrade maintenance * Learning how to migrate NVelocity templates to Scriban templates * Understanding some post-upgrade testing strategies
This is the fourth part of a devlog I started some time ago. Today, I am covering the installation and configuration of Sitecore XP 10.1.0, upgrading SXA, third-party modules and more issues. Disclaimer: This series of blog posts do not release you from reading the Upgrade Guide. There
This is a spin-off of a devlog I started some time ago. Today, I am sharing a simple Powershell script to help you with the "Update Sitecore NuGet Packages" task. If you have been following me along with this series, you’ve noticed that one of the tasks
In this second part, we are going to create a clock face in Fitbit. Then we are going to run it on the Fitbit OS Simulator and finish running it on an actual device through the feature called Developer Bridge. Clock faces are the easiest thing you can build on
This is the third part of a devlog I started weeks ago. Today, I am covering the upgrade of the Sitecore databases, what went wrong and how we fixed that. Disclaimer: This series of blog posts do not release you from reading the Upgrade Guide. There is quite a lot
This is the second part of a devlog I started a week ago. Today, I am covering more documentation and highlighting some things that might interest you. Next, I get started with the upgrade and share some issues I encountered. To give a bit more context, I am upgrading a
In this post, I share how you can use 7-Zip command-line tool to automate some tasks when dealing with .zip files. Additionally, I share two simple commands that can help you to remove some undesirable folders from a zipped website and remove specific languages from a Sitecore package. 7-Zip 7-Zip
This series of devlogs is intended to help beginners with the Sitecore upgrade work. You’ll follow along with my thought processes and what you need to start an upgrade. If you did upgrades in the past, you will find most of the content here is dreadfully boring. However, you
This is a first of a series of blog posts where I share how you can get started with developing a Fitbit application. If you are into sports, have a Fitbit watch and want to build something cool on it, then stick with me on this amazing hello world app.