Publications

Introduction Online retailers may face a situation where they want to engage visitors via diverse and visually appealing content but are restricted by the content management capabilities of their eCommerce platform. Possible solutions to this challenge differ depending on weak spots of each platform and a retailer’s expectations can vary from customizing a page editor to integrating a standalone CMS. Handy page editing with a drag-and-drop page builder Magento’s default WYSIWYG editor is inconvenient to go beyond simple information pages and create complex page layouts with banners, images, product lists and more. To counter this inconvenience, Pimcore offers a drag-and-drop page builder. It uses various page types and blocks called editables (that includes banners, images, descriptions, product lists, etc.) to construct a page so that one can experiment with its layout and look. ...

A B2B purchasing portal makes the procurement process faster and easier. Businesses today find it easier to work with major suppliers, and tend to overlook the advantages of purchasing from local small businesses. Local companies can provide better options for delivery – they’re more flexible in case of market changes, and can help to diversify the range of products your company offers. For big companies with representation in multiple cities, regions and countries, “local” can mean thousands of individual locations. The portal helps to engage small and medium-sized businesses and navigate quickly among them. It also enables continuous communication of your needs and requirements. ...

This talk looked at about transformation to Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and DevOps. For a large, heavily regulated industry, this task can not only be daunting, but viewed by many as impossible. Often, organizations try to reduce the friction through micro-fixes, but Eddie’s team asked how to change the culture to reduce the friction and concluded with the following final points: Don’t mandate DevOps. Give employees the chance to master their discipline with examples to set and follow. Favor deep end-to-end accomplishments over broad but incremental steps forward. Focus on taking the right teams far before encouraging broad adoption. Centralize the platforms and tools that your teams shouldn’t be thinking about. Provide foundational services/commodities and let teams stay on purpose. Incorporate contributions from everyone; don’t stifle autonomy. Stay open to new ways of working. Challenge security policies, but respect intentions. Find new ways to enforce concerns without abandoning precaution.

Introduction The playground for cloud infrastructure providers is busy, as the most recent Gartner report shows, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), though being challenged by Microsoft Azure, still look like the unattainable leader. What makes Amazon appear a cure-all solution and how many of its services de facto bring tangible benefits to cloud neophytes? AWS comes with a stack of tempting benefits such as elastic capacity, scalability, speedy and agile delivery, focus on business and global reach. However, the CXO-level decision-makers will often be cautious, and with good reason, when it comes to migrating their apps to the cloud. Besides security concerns and prejudices surrounding the cloud infrastructure, there is another underlying reason: who wants to undergo the trouble of revamping their architecture with outcomes that are hard to calculate? ...