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AEM is evolving to a cloud-native platform! Discover how App Builder enables powerful integrations and customization for developers.

If you are an AEM developer reading this blog, there is a good chance you've heard of Edge Delivery Services (EDS). If so, then you have...

Secure AEM with Azure Key Vault: Centralize secret management, use RBAC, and enhance security with client certificates in your AEM projects.

Over the years I have set up countless development environments. And to help ease onboarding for new developers, I have leveraged several...

I got an invite to join 2 other colleagues for an Adobe "Partner Day" event in Austin. Focused on Adobe Commerce. Including the recently...

Learn how to securely integrate AEM with Azure Storage using Azure Identity & Access Management credentials. Follow step-by-step guide.

This morning someone said "January flew by!". Yes it did. So happy belated new year 🥳! In 2023 I set three career resolutions for...

Explore the transition from deprecated Java APIs like org.apache.sling.settings.SlingSettingsService to future-proof practices in AEMaaCS

Don't write any more tedious, error-prone validation code. Use constraint annotations and let the bean validation framework do the rest.

Back in December of 2022, I was working on an AEM 6.5 project. It was a typical project. Including the build time. Locally, I mitigated...

The dispatcher is an integral part of the AEM architecture. So important that it has made it into AEMaaCS. But it is simple and has not...

Sometimes when I meet someone, the question comes up "What do you do for a living." I answer "I'm an internet plumber!" I create the...

Last week I had the opportunity to attend Adobe Summit 2023. Now that I've had the weekend to recuperate, and gather my thoughts, I'm...

As part of my job, I review a lot of code. One of the problems that I see often is that a lot of code gets written to integrate AEM with...

Happy new year! 🥳 A little over a year ago I started this blog. I figured it was a good way to push myself to learn new things. Share...

When doing local dev and testing, you may find that you need TLS (Transport Layer Security). Also known as SSL (Secure Socket Layer), it...

One of the first things you will learn about AEM's architecture are its three basic parts. The content repository, implemented by...

You might be looking to create your own custom context-aware configurations. Or you might be dealing with existing ones like those for...

In my last post I covered the topic of digital signatures. And I wrote a servlet that used the certificate form the trust store to verify...

Cryptography is all around us. Surfing the web using SSL/TLS. SSH public key authentication. Or SAML authentication. Things get signed...