If you spend any time in Sitecore community circles — Slack, Stack Exchange, LinkedIn, or the hallway track at Sitecore Symposium — you’ll eventually run into the same piece of advice: find a mentor. It’s good advice. But it’s also advice that a lot of people nod along to and then never act on, usually …
Architecture trends don’t move in straight lines, and few enterprise platforms make that as visible as Sitecore. Over roughly 24 years, Sitecore has swung from a single tightly-coupled on-prem application, through a decade-long, acquisition-fueled push to become a fully composable, MACH-aligned DXP, and now — with SitecoreAI — back toward a single, unified, single-license platform. …
If you’re running Sitecore Experience Manager (XM) on-premise and want a modern, framework-agnostic frontend, this is your stack: publish to Sitecore Experience Edge for XM, then pull content into a React + Vite SPA via GraphQL. No SitecoreAI (formerly XM Cloud) required. A note on naming: Sitecore retired the XM Cloud brand at Symposium 2025. …
Event-driven messaging is having a moment. But shiny doesn’t always mean right for your project. What Is RabbitMQ? RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker — middleware that sits between services and routes messages between them. Originally built on the Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), it has since grown to support STOMP, MQTT, and WebSockets through …
A reality check for practitioners, marketers, and decision-makers navigating the AI hype cycle First, Let’s Set the Record Straight There is a lot of excitement — and a fair amount of confusion — swirling around SitecoreAI. Some teams are arriving at planning meetings expecting a magic AI brain to run their entire digital experience. Others …
In the world of SitecoreAI, the quality of your output is directly tied to the precision of your input. Moving beyond simple chat interactions and toward structured prompting is the key to building reliable, enterprise-grade AI integrations. For developers, this isn’t just about “talking” to a model; it is about engineering a deterministic pipeline where …
Success or failure with your Sitecore site largely depends not so much on the underlying Sitecore platform but if you can successfully extend it to meet your business requirements in a performant and bug free manner. This is where design patterns play a critical role in ensuring strong performance, quality, and a sustainable code base. …
Bulk review and updating of Sitecore field values within items are a common need, and one that Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE) is uniquely qualified to handle. In this article, we will walk through two sample scripts to get or update field values… with a little extra sauce to help you get started (noting that the …
It’s the middle of the night and something has been published that should not have been, but you don’t know who logged into Sitecore during this time… or do you? Fortunately, out of the box, you can audit who logged into Sitecore with some minor caveats. To be clear, we are not assuming that a …
For those running SolrCloud in a windows server environment, it’s a common requirement to add custom Solr indexes to support your Sitecore environment. Whether you have blogs, products, or any other set of custom data you want to support Solr side, the following details how to setup custom Solr indexes within your Sitecore environment. In …