Add-On

Overview of some of the less-known Optimizely Add-Ons

We have more than seven hundred packages (717) on Optimizely NuGet feed. Official Optimizely packages are part of this number, but the majority is community driven open-source packages enhancing and

Add-On

Optimizely Advanced ContentArea Renderer for Forms is Back!

Advanced Content Area Renderer is now available for Optimizely content. However, it would be nice to apply display options to Optimizely Forms elements as well. Background Optimizely.Forms are more

Add-On

Optimizely Advanced ContentArea Renderer is Back!

If you have used EPiBootstrapArea package - then back in those days we had an opportunity to render Episerver ContentArea items with different DisplayOptions based on Twitter's Bootstrap framework grid

Add-On

DeveloperTools are back!

Experimental project with handy tools for developers is back for Optimizely v12. DISCLAIMER! Remember, use at your own risk - this is not a supported product! Current Features * View contents

C#

Import Your Localized Resources in v7.5

Import functionality has been delayed for several versions of DbLocalizationProvider. However, with the help of community member - this feature has finally been implemented!

Unit Tests

Run BenchmarkDotNet in xUnit

If you ever need to run BenchmarkDotNet [https://benchmarkdotnet.org/articles/overview.html] as part of the unit test (because sometimes it's easier to just write unit tests instead of a dedicated app), you can use this wrapper around benchmark runner. [Trait("Category", "Unit"

Add-On

Dynamic Route in ASP.NET Core When MapDynamicControllerRoute Does Not Work

Background Creating one of the add-on for Optimizely I had to deal with challenge to register dynamically route for the API controller. Dynamic route here means that user is able

Add-On

GoogleProductFeed for Optimizely: Reloaded

The previous version of GoogleProductFeed package for EPiServer [https://nuget.optimizely.com/package/?id=Geta.GoogleProductFeed] / Optimizely [https://nuget.optimizely.com/package/?id=Geta.Optimizely.GoogleProductFeed] had some inherited problems.

Logging

How to Configure Microsoft.Extensions.Logging in Optimizely CMS11

Extensions.Logging de-facto logging library that class libraries should use at the very least. Where Optimizely (ex. Episerver) CMS11 (running on .NET Framework) would collide with anything from the "new world" (.NET5)?

Azure

How To Easily Exhaust SNAT Sockets in Your Azure Function

Late Friday evening, some sort of hotel lobby music in my headphones (I miss travel) and this chart on my screen. We are running out of network sockets to talk to any service, any API - basically anything. We are at SNAT port exhaustion.

Asp.Net Core

DbLocalizationProvider v7 Out!

In this blog post I wanted to highlight some of the most obvious and visible changes to the library. As we jump to the next major version - this was good timing for me to finally materialize some of the pending break changes I was holding back for a very long time.

Azure

Avoid Lock - Pointing Two WebJobs to The Same Azure Storage Account

Recently we had a requirement to run multiple copies of our webjobs in parallel (with different settings and configuration) doing similar but different work.

Add-On

How-to Pack Your Shell Module for Optimizely Content Cloud

Optimizely Content Cloud is approaching fast and partners are working on getting modules out on the feed for the rest of us to test. As you know - Optimizely vNext

Asp.Net Core

What New APIs Are Coming in Optimizely Content Cloud vNext?

I was wondering what new assemblies and public APIs are coming in new version of Content Management System from Optimizely (ex. EPiServer).

Architecture

Fixing 99% CPU usage in gRPC service

We are back again in gRPC service and this time we will be working on another performance issue. This time we had to deal with super high CPU usage by our gRPC service.

Azure

Discovering Most Stupid Mistake I Ever Made - Analyzing gRPC Service MemDump from Linux based Docker Running on ACI

Here we are going to discover one of the most stupid mistake I could ever made in my career. The turning point was an informal conversation with the one and only Tess Ferrandez.

gRPC

Implementing gRPC Auto-Reconnect on Timeout

In this blog post we are going to implement feature to reconnect to gRPC stream if specific timeout has elapsed and no new data has been received from the server.

Azure

Azure Webjobs - Eliminate Gap between Runs

Blog post describes trick to get Microsoft Azure Webjobs running almost all the time.

Real-time Transport Tracking System on Azure - Part 7.1: Fixing Docker Image Metrics in Azure

This is blog post in series about building real-time public transport tracking system on Microsoft Azure cloud services. We gonna fix image metrics in Azure portal this time.

gRPC

Building Real-time Public Transport Tracking System on Azure - Part 7: Packing Everything Up

This is blog post in series about building real-time public transport tracking system on Microsoft Azure cloud services. Now it's time to pack up and deploy services to cloud for smooth production run.

gRPC

Building Real-time Public Transport Tracking System on Azure - Part 6: Building Frontend

This is next post in series about real-time public transport tracking system development based on Azure infrastructure and services. This article is a part of Applied Cloud Stories initiative - aka.ms/applied-cloud-stories. Blog posts in this series: * Part 1 - Scene Background & Solution

EPiServer

Episerver Scheduled Jobs - Under the Hood

Have you ever wondered what really happens when you run your scheduled job in Episerver? What happens when Episerver misses to fire off your job, what is scheduler and how job status notifications are implemented?

Building Real-time Public Transport Tracking System on Azure - Part 5: Data Broadcast

We finished previous post with data processing pipelines and projecting data into profiles in order to reduce unnecessary data processing for every connected client to the application.

EPiServer

Bootstrap Content Area Renderer Update for Episerver

Twitter Bootstrap Content Area package hasn't been updated for a while which might mean either no one is using it or it's mature enough that does not require new features :)

Asp.Net Core

Building Real-time Public Transport Tracking System on Azure - Part 4

This is next post in series about real-time public transport tracking system development based on Azure infrastructure and services. This time we talk about data broadcast using gRPC and SignalR.