Author: Rob Habraken
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Tracking Asset Usage: Designing a Resilient Serverless Delta Middleware
In my previous post, we looked at how to extend a Sitecore XP implementation to capture granular publishing events and fire off non-blocking telemetry signals. By adopting a fire-and-forget approach, we ensured that the CMS remains fast and unaffected by any potential downstream network latency. But once those publishing signals leave Sitecore, the real heavy…
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Tracking Asset Usage: Deep Diving into the Sitecore Publishing Lifecycle
In my previous post, I introduced a cloud-native architectural concept to track Sitecore asset usage within Content Hub in real time. The strategy is straightforward: rather than pulling data from Sitecore via heavy, on-demand crawls, we want the CMS to actively push usage signals to an external middleware layer the moment content goes live. However,…
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Real-time asset usage in Content Hub: a concept
Sitecore Content Hub does not provide built-in functionality to track asset usage in the Sitecore CMS. When using the Content Hub CDN to serve images directly to a Sitecore XP website, this creates the risk of deleting assets that are still in use, resulting in broken images. And as a result, content editors become hesitant…
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Who Sees What? Designing Flexible Asset Security in Sitecore Content Hub
In Sitecore Content Hub, securing content goes beyond external delivery. It also means managing who among your DAM users can view, edit, or publish specific assets. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to design a flexible, scalable security model using layered user groups and metadata-driven rules, utilizing all the configuration and customization possibilities Content…
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Sitecore Technology MVP 2025!
My 10-year anniversary as a Sitecore MVP I am proud and grateful to be named Most Valuable Professional by Sitecore for the tenth time in a row! This year, as a Technology MVP, I am one of only 172 Sitecore professionals worldwide that have been awarded an MVP title in this category. It really means…
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Sitecore Symposium 2024
and the Sitecore MVP Summit & Partner Connect Two weeks ago, I traveled to Nashville for a week filled with events, networking, catching up with old friends and making new ones, sharing knowledge, and discussing Sitecore’s products, go-to-market strategy, and technical roadmaps. It was one of the best events in years, thanks to some exciting…
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Migrating to XM Cloud
XM Cloud is the CMS of Sitecore’s new Composable DXP. It is a further development of their original CMS, but packed and serviced completely different. It’s SaaS, less hassle to maintain, quicker and easier to develop on, a lot easier to work with for content editors, but still as powerful and versatile as before. So…
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Sitecore Technology MVP 2024!
I am proud and grateful to be named Most Valuable Professional by Sitecore for the ninth time in a row! This year, as a Technology MVP, I am one of only 147 Sitecore professionals worldwide that have been awarded with an MVP title in this category. It really means a lot to me to be…
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XM Cloud DevOps pipeline
The easiest way to deploy your project to your XM Cloud instance is manually via the Sitecore Cloud Portal. If you go to the XM Cloud Deploy dashboard, you can not only create projects and environments, but also start a “Build and deploy” process for a specific environment. While that might seem convenient and perfectly…
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New in Content Hub: focal point crop option!
On August 25, Sitecore released a new feature within Content Hub: a focal point crop option when creating public links or custom downloads. As mentioned in the release notes over here it makes it easier to get the desired crop for a certain image, as you now no longer have to try and combine the…