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.

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.

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.

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.

Azure

Building Real-time Public Transport Tracking System on Azure - Part 3

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 distribution further to our subscribers.

C#

Episerver Localization Provider - Major v6 Released!

Introduction I'm pleased to announce that v6 of DbLocalizationProvider is finally out to the wild. This stressful and lots of unknowns period was great timing for me to sit down

Asp.Net Core

Localization Provider - Major 6 Released!

Introduction I'm pleased to announce that v6 of DbLocalizationProvider is finally out to the wild. It's been a bit bumpy road and longer journey as expected, but here we are.

C#

Building Real-time Public Transport Tracking System on Azure - Part 2: Data Collectors & Composer

This is next post in series about real-time public transport tracking system development based on Azure infrastructure and services. Here we talk about data processing pipeline.

C#

Episerver ContentArea with AllowedTypes Specified by Interface

Background Once an interesting question was asked on Episerver Community Slack space [https://episervercommunity.slack.com/] how to work with ContentAreas and specifically [AllowedTypes] and specify restrictions based on interface.

C#

Episerver DeveloperTools - UI Refresh

This blog post is about latest features and bug fixes added to v3.5 of Episerver DeveloperTools package

C#

Converting Azure WebJobs to .NET Core

Motivation Migrating something to .NET Core (while stuck with .NET Framework for a while due to surrounding platform dependency constraints) sounds intriguing and challenging at the same time. Our main

C#

Effectively Working with Git Submodules

Background During development of DbLocalizationProvider I had single repository in GitHub containing more that one package as result of the build. Initially there was just a EPiServer package to add

C#

LocalizationProvider Client Side Feature now also for Asp.Net Mvc Apps

There are sometimes moments when you just need to take deep inhale and add backward support for apps that most probably you will hardly see selected in "File > New Project"

C#

Client-side Localization in Asp.Net Core Using LocalizationProvider

Starting with v5.4.1 version of the LocalizationProvider package for .NET Core, it's now possible to work with translations also on client-side.

EPiServer

Object Cache Viewer Joins EPiServer Developer Tools

It's super cool to work together with the community and unite effort across all areas to strengthen EPiServer ecosystem and toolsets. After chat with Joe Mayberry [https://github.com/jaytem]