I’ll present at the SUGNL: 3 lessons I’ve learned with Sitecore on Docker...
On April 8th, the first virtual Sitecore Usergroup for the Netherlands will be organized, I am proud that Achmea, my employer, may host this first virtual meetup. In my presentation, I’ll talk about 3...
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How to use the new dotnet Nuget Security Vulnerabilities scanning for...
A few days ago, Microsoft explained on their devblog how to scan nuget packages for security vulnerabilities. This is a feature which was recently released, but has been on the github issue list for...
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Once bitten, twice shy: Why my docker-compose build keeps having problems...
In a previous blogpost I explained how to setup a docker build which allows to connect to an authorized Azure Devops Artifacts feed. I often use this feed, as it contains packages which we don’t want...
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How to use Application insights and your visitors to detect when your site is...
When hosting high traffic websites, it’s important to keep them up and running at all times. At the moment one of them goes down, it might lead to a conversion loss or decrease in NPS. Detection of...
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Test and demo environments in an instant: How to pre-provision content to the...
In our company, we use Unicorn for content serialization, in order to be able to deploy “applicative” content like templates across our environments. For dev and test, we also provide content that we...
View ArticleHow to visualize your docker composition
After my previous blogpost, I received several questions how I visualized that Docker architecture. This (very short) blogpost will explain how to do this. The software that I use is a...
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Sitecore 10 on docker – Help to understand the composition of the configuration
After following the “getting started” guide by Nick Wesselman, I had my first Sitecore 10 environment up and running in Sitecore, so there is no need to write about the convenient installation. But...
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A quick guide on reloading your Sitecore xDB contact on (or after) every request
In our road towards realtime personalization, we were in need of reloading our xDB contact on every request, as external systems might have updated several facets with information that could or should...
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How to use the Nuget / Azure Artifact credential provider with a .net docker...
This blogpost describes how to add the Azure Artifact nuget credential provider to a windows based docker container for building .Net (full framework) solutions, using authenticated Azure DevOps...
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A universal guide to the mono package deployment
In my Sitecore symposium session “Sitecore in the enterprise: Optimize your time to deliver toward the speed of light, using all the new love in Azure DevOps” (and yes that is a mouth full) I spend...
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How to run Azure DevOps hosted (Linux) build agents as private agents (and be...
Lately, I was preparing for a talk on Azure DevOps for the Sitecore community. For this talk I wanted to talk about scaling up and scaling out of build agents and compare the performance of different...
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A Sitecore theme for windows-terminal
Microsoft recently released the Windows terminal in the windows store and I must say: I love it. Highly configurable, so I decided to create a small Sitecore theme for it. I hope you will love it! The...
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Sitecore analytics, cookie consent and personalization isn’t a great match –...
Due to different laws (European as well as local legislation) companies have be very conversative in how they process data, while they have to take care on how they track people. People have to...
View ArticleFree op your local diskspace – easily get rid of your (old) logs
I bet that a lot of people have this issue: Having a lot of (old) Sitecore installations that you don’t want to remove, as you aren’t sure whether or not there is still some valuable configuration in...
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Azure Search for Sitecore design considerations
Azure Search makes up for a significant amount of costs within a Sitecore on Azure setup; apart from these costs, there are often issues with Azure Search and clients tend to move away from Azure...
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To Elastic pool or not to elastic Pool for Sitecore on Azure
In the Sitecore #azure slack channel there are often discussions about pricing, scaling and performance. A common best practice which is shared in this channel is the use of Elastic Pools for your SQL...
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How to: Create a DTU consumption overview using Azure Metrics
In a previous blogpost I showed a small overview of DTU consumptions of all Sitecore databases and how to use that overview to reduce your costs. This blogpost will explain step by step how to create...
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Sitecore on Azure – design considerations to be more cost efficient and have...
After working for quite a while with a lot of Sitecore workloads on Azure, we have built up quite some experience with regards to scale and costs management. Although Sitecore has some predefined...
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JSS beginner issues: using the ReactiveFormsModule – Can’t bind to...
although being a total JSS and angular newbie, I wanted to create some nice forms, use an API and use some state in my application. The internet is full of solutions, but none of them fixed my issue....
View ArticleJSS beginner issues: Placeholder ‘xxx’ was not found in the current rendering...
Currently, I am researching JSS and I must say: it’s great. So far, I ran into a few issues and although the documentation is great (I would recommend everyone to checkout the styleguide in the...
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