Some great events this week from Adobe and Solution Partners. Learn about Campaign, Magento, Analytics, and Experience Platform

Events: 7 December

Some great events this week from Adobe and Solution Partners. Learn about Campaign, Magento, Analytics, and Experience Platform

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Tuesday 8

• Adobe Analytics Bulk Data Insertion API | Join for Details

Wednesday 9

• Adobe Campaign GTM Sales session | 9:30-10:30 | Register

Thursday 10

• Adobe Campaign Deep Dive Functional session | 9:30-12:00 | Register
• Adobe Commerce: NEW Visual Recommendations / Magento Business Intelligence Dashboards / End of Magento Commerce Starter Sales - with Ryan Green & Megan Harron | 8:00-9:00 | Register

Tuesday 15

• Migrating to the New Adobe Experience Platform Data Collection Infrastructure - with Manik Jindal & Sarah Xu | 8:00-9:00 | Register

📰 News & Releases

AEM Stubs 2.0.0 Released

The 2.0.0 release brings better compatibility with Wiremock, making it easier to try examples from the official documentation. Support for stateful stubs has been added, which enables you to mock full user login scenarios. The default template engine has been updated to be Handlebars.

ACS Commons 4.10.0 Released

The ability to do page property based dispatcher ttl cache headers has been added with this release.

AEM Core Components 2.13.0 Released

Release 2.13.0 contains several bugfixes/improvements for the Image Component's AdaptiveImageServlet but most notably it adds Dynamic Media support to the Core Image Component.

New Experience League Documentation Site

AEM Docs have a new home on Adobe Experience League! The same content you rely on in a new location with a refreshed look allowing better search, discovery, and personalization. Your contributions are still welcome!

CIF Connector, Core Components, & Venia storefront Release 1.6

The AEM CIF December release is now available: Connector & Core Components v1.6 and Venia reference storefront v2020.12.01. AEM Cloud Service customers get the connector update automatically! Check out the release notes for more details.

New integrations with Adobe Experience Platform expand real-time customer profiles

Adobe has announced that post-transactional customer experience intelligence can be integrated into Adobe Experience Platform. These advancements include: pre- and post-purchase intelligence, data-driven decisioning, real-time customer feedback, better consumer engagement, and activating data-driven video experiences.

Bounteous Commerce Connector For AEM Assets Released

The Bounteous Connector for Magento Commerce and AEM Assets provides a seamless workflow between Magento Commerce stores and AEM Assets giving Magento stores all the advanced digital asset management capabilities of the AEM platform. By connecting the two platforms, the connector accelerates the publishing process by synchronizing product images to AEM Assets and substituting image rendering used by the CIF connector out of the box so images are not pulled from Magento’s disk but from AEM’s cache for faster delivery.

Adobe XD Extension for Visual Studio Code 1.1 Released

This latest release is focused on increasing developer velocity and improving designer-developer collaboration. Now developers can filter Design System Packages to only show the code snippets they need. Support has also been added for copying compiled design tokens to project folders. Additionally, designers can now use the Design System Package Reader plugin in Adobe XD.

🔗 Links & Articles

Cloud Manager meets Jenkins

The introduction of AEM as a Cloud Service marks a new era in the world of AEM development. This post provides a tutorial of integrating Cloud Manager, a new CI/CD tool from Adobe, with existing Jenkins-based approaches to code deployment.

Optimizing JCR Session Saves

When performing many modifications to your AEM Java Content Repository (JCR) does your instance slow down, perhaps to the point where it is unusable? What is causing the slow down? Can it be prevented? Learn how a new tool can help testing session save frequencies

Blueprint for Multi-Channel Orchestration in Adobe Experience Platform

This post introduces an a new way to learn and understand how you can use Adobe's technology to build incredible customer experiences: Digital Experience Blueprints. This Digital Experience Blueprint can be used by brands to quickly build a Experience Platform implementation for multi-channel messaging orchestration to drive customer-led engagement at scale across every channel.

What happens in Launch needn’t stay in Launch

Unlike in Las Vegas, what happens in Launch does not need to stay in Launch. This article guides us through how to make a real-time dashboard of Audit Events powered by callback webhooks in the Adobe Launch API.

Regarding Integrating AEM Cloud Manager and Jenkins – Diagrams & How-To’s

Doing custom AEM implementations means extending the out-of-the-box functionality. Now with Cloud Manager and Jenkins together, get insights and diagrams of what to do when you reach the limits of the default Cloud Manager options, and how to overcome them to achieve your business goals and requirements.

⚡ Quick Links

• Get to know some of the basics with an Intro to JCR - Content Repository for Java Technology
• Adobe Analytics Quick tip: Passing Data into a Data Element

💼 Jobs

Check out the Jobs Report this week for great opportunities at Blue Acorn iCi, Gorilla Group, Focus GTS, and hirobe.

Jobs Report: 8 December 2020

Subscribe to AEM.News to see the Jobs Report and more timely and insightful content for the Adobe Experience ecosystem.

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📢 Credits & Contributors

Kevin Cobourn, Nick Hecht, Jody Arthur, Albin Issac, Manik Jindal, Sarah Xu, Ogonna Anaekwe, Tad Reeves, Wojciech Blachowski, Adam Greco, Megan Harron, Ryan Green, Ronell Hugh, Krassimir Boyanov, Jan Exner, Andrew Top

Tuesday 8 | Join for Details

Is your team migrating from Google Analytics to Adobe Analytics? Do you use Google Analytics API to extract history and load into Adobe Analytics. Learn about backfilling Analytics Data with Adobe's new Bulk Data Insertion API.

Adobe Campaign GTM Sales session

Wednesday 9 | 9:30-10:30 | Register

This session aims to help Adobe partner sales teams to better pitch Adobe Campaign, understand the offering, and know why to choose Adobe Campaign vs. the competition. This session will cover: Adobe Campaign as part of Adobe Experience Cloud, Customer Journey Management offering & competition, the Solution Partner Portal, and finish with time for questions and answers.

Adobe Campaign Deep Dive Functional session

Thursday 10 | 9:30-12:00 | Register

This session aims to help our partners to visualize and understand the main capabilities of Adobe Campaign through a deep dive demo of the application, and presentation of the main integration use cases with the Adobe Experience Cloud platform, services and applications.

Adobe Commerce: NEW Visual Recommendations / Magento Business Intelligence Dashboards / End of Magento Commerce Starter Sales - with Ryan Green & Megan Harron

Thursday 10 | 8:00-9:00 | Register

Join us to learn about the newest Adobe Commerce feature, Visual Recommendations, adding image recognition for better shopper experiences. We will also share with you the addition of NEW Magento Business Intelligence dashboards.

Migrating to the New Adobe Experience Platform Data Collection Infrastructure - with Manik Jindal & Sarah Xu

Tuesday 15 | 8:00-9:00 | Register

Learn about the new Adobe Experience Platform Data Collection Infrastructure - Project Whetstone. We will cover: Features, Benefits, Packaging, and the Migration process

The Adobe Cloud Manager enables your team to wrangle deployments to AEM as a Cloud Service through flexible pipeline automation. It also exposes APIs to connect custom webhooks and act upon events and data. This article walks us through how we can automate status notifications by connecting Cloud Manager to Microsoft Teams. Get the code →

Author: Albin Issac

Cloud Manager Notifications to Collaboration Channels — Microsoft Teams

Cloud Manager enables customers to manage their custom code deployments on their AEM-managed cloud environments with manageable pipeline automation and complete flexibility for the timing or…

Albin IssacTech Learnings

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Adobe^® Experience Manager Assets (AEM Assets) allows a marketing organization to organize the digital files used to market the business. But the assets may not only be used by the marketing organization, but also by internal and external partners to the marketing organization. Internal partners may include field sales organizations and international subsidiaries. External partners may include distributors, dealers, and companies that co-market products with the business.

Your organization can provide these internal and external partners with the assets they need simply by granting the partners limited access to AEM Assets. But is that the best solution?

Author: Krassimir Boyanov

3 AEM Assets Portal Benefits | KBWEB Consult

Contents#1 Filter Out Irrelevant Assets#2 Improve the asset search accuracy#3 Over 20% Content Velocity gainsTwo Assets Portal Solutions Adobe® Experience Manager Assets (AEM Assets) allows a marketing organization to organize ... Read More

KBWEB Consult

Extending and Customizing the Component Action Toolbar is a frequent requirement in custom AEM implementations. This post provides a step-by-step guide for how to do so cleanly and efficiently.

Author: Uday Patel

Extend and Customize AEM Component Action Toolbar - INITIALYZE

In this blog, we will learn how to add a new custom action item to the component toolbar. To extend or customize the component action toolbar, at a high level we need to do the following: Create a component for the custom actionOverlay the toolbar from WCMAdd a custom action…

Uday PatelINITIALYZE

A successful digital asset management (DAM) system like Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets begins with a well thought out and comprehensive Information Architecture which improves asset velocity and overall speed to market. Watch this webinar on-demand from Bounteous as they reveal a personalized asset navigation system, DAM Views for AEM Assets.

Author:

Achieving Personalized Asset Navigation with DAM Views For Adobe Experience Manager Assets | Bounteous

Watch our webinar as we reveal a personalized asset navigation system, DAM Views for AEM Assets.

Bounteous

When managing code with Adobe Launch, it’s critical to be able to test changes before publishing. To make sure changes work as expected in a production environment, it’s helpful change the Launch library, allowing you to see how your dev or stage library will work on your production site. There are some great tools like Launch Switch available from Search Discovery (available here). The downside is that these tools are only available on Google Chrome. That means you can’t test on other browsers like Safari, IE, Firefox, or others.

Author: Sam Kutscha

Debug Adobe Launch on Any Browsers with Charles | ICF Next Engineering

When managing code with Adobe Launch, it’s critical to be able to test changes before publishing. To make sure changes work as expected in a production environment, it’s helpful change the Launch…

Sam KutschaICF Next Engineering

📖 'No-Code' Core Components Course Update

This week made great progress on the Rapid Prototyping section of the 'No-Code' Core Components Course. 'Why Start With Content?' was published and helps explain why you shouldn't use Lorem Ipsum and how your content should drive design and development decision making. 'Building a Content Skeleton' was also published and discusses how Core Components enable us to use our content to build out a site skeleton from which we can iterate our design to success.

Become a premium member of AEM News today to get pre-release access to the 'No-Code' Core Components Course!

“No-Code” Core Components Course

There’s never been a better time to build websites due to the abundance ofoptions available and as a result the ‘no-code’ and ‘lean-code’ offerings aretransforming how products get made and business gets done. The Adobe Experience Manager is as powerful as it is complex which hasprohibited it’s …

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📅 Events this Week

This week is pretty light on events as the United States has the Thanksgiving holiday and several days off. Happy Turkey day to those celebrating. And a great question for all of us: What are you thankful for this year?

What’s New with Adobe Campaign? - with Owen Taffinder

Friday 27 | 10:00-11:00 | Register

Learn the new capabilities of Adobe Campaign following the latest October releases for Standard and Classic.

📰 News

Close the Year Strong

Adobe Experience Manager customer stories, product updates and sales tools will help you cross the finish line. Customer success stories to help you close the deal with prospective clients. Product updates to the Project Archetype, Adobe Sensei-powered Video Smart Tagging, Brand Portal download enhancements, updates to the Adobe Asset Link for Creative Cloud 2021, and New GraphQL Capabilities for Headless Content Delivery.

Industry Resources to Address New Challenges, Shifting Priorities

"Your clients and prospects face different challenges and shifting priorities as a result of the pandemic. To help you sell during this time, Adobe has added new resources to four industries in the Industries page of the Portal. These resources include customer pitch decks, customer stories and videos, on-demand webinars, white papers, and more."

Adobe Target - A Need for Speed

Your clients want you to help them deliver optimized customer experiences on their website, apps, and every other digital touchpoint their customers use to connect with their brand. Adobe Target helps you do that for them using A/B testing and personalization of customer experiences with new on-device decisioning.

Adobe Analytics Fall Release Now Available

Highlights from the 2020 Fall Release: Increased Insight-to-Action, Higher Resolution Insights, Self-serve Data Deletion, Improved Analysis Experience, and Strengthened Engagement Analysis.

📺 Videos & Webinars

How Adobe Does 2 Million Records Per Second Using Apache Spark!

Following up from last week's edition, here is this a related video of how Adobe manages millions of records per second with Apache Spark from Spark Summit 2020.

CXC November 2020 Event: Adobe and ServiceNow Integration

I've been researching the Adobe Experience Platform. Reading about all the tech powering it. And I've been very impressed. But seeing it in action impressed me even more. This recent webinar shows a great example of integrating Adobe Experience Platform with ServiceNow to create a great customer experience.

Showcasing Best Practices with AEM Digital Foundation Blueprint – Meet the Winners of the Lean Code Contest

Solutions Partners only | Requires Adobe Connect

Check out this webinar if you want to see the winners of the Lean Code Contest. Some very interesting ideas of how to quickly implement a design with Core Components.

Achieving Personalized Asset Navigation with DAM Views For Adobe Experience Manager Assets

A successful digital asset management (DAM) system like Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets begins with a well thought out and comprehensive Information Architecture which improves asset velocity and overall speed to market. Watch this webinar on-demand from Bounteous as they reveal a personalized asset navigation system, DAM Views for AEM Assets.

AEM & Launch Integration Tips with Analytics & Target

AEM & Launch - How to get the most out of Adobe Launch when integrating with Adobe Experience Manager. Both have been out for some time, but here is your chance to learn best practices. Danny Gordon will walk us through Adobe Analytics & Target integration with some great demos!

🔗 Links

How Adobe Does Millions of Records per Second Using Apache Spark Optimizations — Part 2

Part 1 of this series of posts covered how to apply some Spark optimizations to Structured Streaming Workloads. In Part 2, this blog details how to optimize Interactive Query Evaluation workloads on top of Apache Spark.

Event serialization

Custom events are the way to track metrics in Adobe Analytics. In general, you want a metric to increase or decrease depending on the user’s behavior. However, you may only want it to happen under certain circumstances. More importantly, you do not want to write complex code to manage that. Learn how to get the most accurate metrics through some best practices offered in this article.

Creating Regression Test Content Using AEM Content Builder

How many hours have you or your team wasted creating developer or tester content? Too many. I personally have grappled with this before and can assure you it's a non-trivial problem. This article demonstrates the newly updated AEM Content Builder npm package and how it can be used to create and author test content via the Sling POST Servlet and some JavaScript. Get the code

Debug Adobe Launch on Any Browsers with Charles

It’s critical to be able to test your Adobe Launch code before publishing. But it can be difficult in browsers with poor tooling. Charles to the rescue!

Terraform on AWS Cloud: Manage Infrastructure as a Code

Deployment and infrastructure management is not a simple process. This article covers the advantages of Terraform, as well as the categories and best practices used to manage infrastructure on AWS cloud.

Cool Approximate Count Distinct Use Cases – Adobe Analytics Tips

One of the things that really sets Adobe Analytics apart from other solutions is the ability to create sophisticated Calculated Metrics and Segments on the fly. You don’t need to be a highly trained Analyst or Data Scientist to create your very own set of Measures and Dimensions unique to your business question. Approximate Count Distance functionality allows us to count how many different values from a dimension we tracked and use that number in both Calculated Metrics and Segments (making this function the closest we have to calculated metrics in segments).

The Future of Adobe Experience Platform Auditor

Over the last decade Adobe has acquired a number companies to help you deliver top-notch customer experiences. Each of these companies came with their own data collection infrastructure which led to complex and oftentimes disjointed implementations. Over the last three years Adobe has re imagined how data collection at scale should be done. They have pulled together individuals from across the business that have worked on validation tools for Adobe solutions onto a single team to deliver some exciting new features and products that are coming soon!

⚡ Quick Links

• Take a quick look into the future of AEM releases
• AEM IDE has released a new update
• Learn about Sling Schedulers in AEM as a Cloud Service

💼 Jobs

Check out the Jobs Report this week for more than forty great opportunities at Bounteous, ICF Next, Initialyze, and TA Digital.

Jobs Report: 23 November

Subscribe to AEM.News to see the Jobs Report and more timely and insightful content for the Adobe Experience ecosystem.

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📢 Credits, Contributors & Speakers

The AEM News Letter would not be possible without all of the amazing contributors. A special shout out to those included this week:

Owen Taffinder,  Krzysztof Ryk, Yeshwanth Vijayakumar, Vineet Sharma, Sandeep Nawathe, Doug Ross, Samuel Kutscha, Brett Birschbach, Paul McAleer, Daniel Coll, Kaushal Mall, Amit Mehar, Frederik Werner, Pedro Monjo, Wouter Van Geluwe, Pradeep Sharma, Sharath Chandra, Amit Gadhia, Abhijeet Khadilkar, Danny Gordon

Formerly known as TechAspect. TA Digital is a leading digital transformation agency serving organizations globally and delivering #digitalexperience, #commerce, #digitalmarketing, #digitalstrategy, #artificialintelligence solutions with superior precision. Our years of Digital Experience expertise has earned us a 97% customer satisfaction rating with our clients ranging from Global Fortune 1000 to Mid-Market Enterprises, leading educational institutions, and Non-Profits.

• Adobe Target Technical Lead | Fulltime | Gurugram, Hyderabad, India
• Manager – Digital Analytics & Insights (Adobe) | Fulltime | California, USA
• Adobe Multi Solution Architect | Fulltime | Dallas, Texas, USA
• AEM Architect (West) | Fulltime | United States
• AEM Architect (Central) | Fulltime | United States
• Adobe Practice Director | Fulltime | Chicago, Illinois, USA
• AEM Architect | Fulltime | Hyderabad, India
• AEM Technical Lead | Fulltime | Los Angeles, California, USA
• AEM Architect (East) | Fulltime | Raleigh, North Carolina, USA
• AEM Lead | Fulltime | Hyderabad, India
• UI Architect | Fulltime | Gurugram, Hyderabad, India

Initialyze

Initialyze is  a group of technology experts who are passionate about all things digital.

• Front-end Web Engineer | Mumbai, India
• Business System Analyst (AEM) | Mumbai, India
• Front-end Web Engineer | San Ramon, California, USA
• Sr. Architect (AEM) | Mumbai, India
• Software Engineer (AEM) | Mumbai, India
• Business System Analyst – AEM | San Ramon, California, USA
• Sr. Architect – AEM | San Ramon, California, USA
• Software Engineer – AEM | San Ramon, California, USA
• QA Engineer – AEM | San Ramon, California, USA
• AEM Developer | San Ramon, California, USA
• Software Engineer | San Ramon, California, USA

ICF Next

We’re ICF Next, your strategic partner for engagement and transformation. Here’s what you need to know about us. We break traditions. We break molds. We break through. Our passion is to help you make the change you need to succeed. We are mission-driven creatives, communicators, strategists and technologists. Part of global consultancy ICF, we're working to improve the world in areas from energy to health to transportation and beyond.

• AEM Architect | Bengaluru, India
• AEM Developer | Bengaluru, India
• AEM Architect | Bengaluru, India
• AEM Developer | Bengaluru, India
• Systems Engineer (AEM) II | Bengaluru, India
• Systems Engineer (AEM) III | Bengaluru, India
• Site Reliability Architect | Bengaluru, India
• DevOps Engineer (Remote) | Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Bounteous

Bounteous is a full-service digital experience agency highly specialized in the Adobe space, particularly helping clients take advantage of the Adobe Experience Cloud. Bounteous is a key contributor to the Adobe community and an award-winning team, including: 2018 Emerging Partner of the Year, Platinum Regional Solution Partner, and 2018 & 2019 Global Rock Star Award Winner. By joining our team you'll be working with the best in the industry.

• Personalization Specialist | Fulltime
• Manager of Personalization | Fulltime
• Adobe Analytics Consultant | Fulltime
• AEM Developer (BE) | Fulltime
• AEM Developer (FE) | Fulltime

One of the things that really sets Adobe Analytics apart from other solutions is the ability to create sophisticated Calculated Metrics and Segments on the fly. You don’t need to be a highly trained Analyst or Data Scientist to create your very own set of Measures and Dimensions unique to your business question. The best […] The post Cool Approximate Count Distinct Use Cases – Adobe Analytics Tips by Frederik Werner appeared first on The Full Stack Analyst 📈 .

Author: Frederik Werner

Cool Approximate Count Distinct Use Cases - Adobe Analytics Tips

One of the things that really sets Adobe Analytics apart from other solutions is the ability to create sophisticated Calculated Metrics and Segments on the fly.

Frederik WernerThe Full Stack Analyst 📈

How many hours have you or your team wasted creating developer or tester content? Too many. I personally have grappled with this before and can assure you it's a non-trivial problem. This article demonstrates the newly updated AEM Content Builder npm package and how it can be used to create and author test content via the Sling POST Servlet and some JavaScript. Get the code

Author: Doug Ross

Creating Regression Test Content Using AEM Content Builder

One of the key challenges facing regression testers is creating a clean-slate of content. In AEM, often small changes with large impacts are made: component properties are updated, dialogs change…

Doug RossAdobe Tech Blog

If you want to learn about Rapid Prototyping in AEM with Core Components then you'll be excited for the upcoming releases this week. I've been hard at work on 'Starting with Content', 'Why was Rapid Prototyping difficult in AEM before Core Components?', and 'Getting Setup to Prototype with the AEM Maven Archetype'. Stay tuned for the latest, or check out the already published Introduction to Rapid Prototyping  →

“No-Code” Core Components Course

There’s never been a better time to build websites due to the abundance ofoptions available and as a result the ‘no-code’ and ‘lean-code’ offerings aretransforming how products get made and business gets done. The Adobe Experience Manager is as powerful as it is complex which hasprohibited it’s …

Joshua ZeltmanAEM News

📅 Events this Week

There's a bunch of great events and webinars to attend this week with something for everyone: Digital Foundation Blueprint Best Practices, Magento Technical Workshop, Custom Apps with Project Firefly & more

Adobe Experience Cloud Events for November 16-20

There’s a bunch of great events and webinars to attend this week with something for everyone: Digital Foundation Blueprint Best Practices, Magento Technical Workshop, Custom Apps with Project Firefly & more

Joshua ZeltmanAEM News

Monday 16

• ⭐ Showcasing Best Practices with AEM Digital Foundation Blueprint – Meet the Winners of the Lean Code Contest - with Karthik Muralidharan | 8:00-9:00

Tuesday 17

• Adobe Analytics Business Practitioner ACE Preparation Event | 8:00-11:00
• SWAT Live Demo & Follow-Up - with Barnet Hellman | 3:30-4:30
• Adobe Experience Cloud for Financial Services - Hoon Yoo | 11:00-12:00

Wednesday 18

• Commerce Cloud Technical Sales Workshop (Day One) | 9:00-2:00
• Project Firefly – Explore Use Cases and Features to Build Custom Adobe Apps - with Manik Jindal & Sarah Xu | 8:00-9:00
• Adobe Corp. Enterprise Deal Registration Training | 10:30-11:30
• Webinar - Achieving Personalized Asset Navigation with DAM Views For Adobe Experience Manager Assets | 11:00-12:00

Thursday 19

• Experience Driven Commerce Technical Sales Workshop (Day Two) | 9:00-2:00
• Futureproofed Data Management with Audience Manager and Real-time CDP - with Matt Skinner | 8:00-9:00

🔧 Tools

Aspect-Oriented Programming with Adobe Experience Manager

Albin Issac

Aspect-oriented programming (AOP) is a programming paradigm that aims to increase modularity by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns. This allows behaviors that are not central to the business logic (such as logging) to be added to a program without cluttering the core functionality.

Apache Sling Pipes: Real World Examples

Kaushal Mall

Do you want to move your AEM tags from /etc/tags to /content/cq:tags? Do you want to update the cq:designPath property across 1,000s of pages is AEM because the design was moved from /etc/design to /apps/settings? Have you heard about Sling Pipes but can’t find any real world examples on how to make it happen in AEM? Read on for three real world scenarios that will hopefully help you unlock the power Sling Pipes for most of your use cases.

AEM Stubs

Tool for providing sample data for AEM applications in a simple and flexible way. Stubbing server on AEM, no separate needed.

APMT - AEM Permission Matrix Tester

APMT (AEM Permission Matrix Tester) is a new library built on top of JUnit5 that powers permission test cases with little effort. Check out the article →

AEM Gradle Plugin

Swiss army knife for Adobe Experience Manager related automation. Environment setup & incremental AEM application build which takes seconds, not minutes.

Journey XD Plugin

When this was posted, the Journey Plugin for Adobe XD video demo was available, but it has since been removed. I've reached out to Adobe for another link

🔗 Links

How Adobe Does Millions of Records per Second Using Apache Spark Optimizations

Yeshwanth Vijayakumar, Vineet Sharma, Sandeep Nawathe

With Adobe Experience Platform Real-time Customer Profile, you can see a holistic view of each individual customer that combines data from multiple channels. However, that data processing can be intense and require optimization to make it cost effective and data rich. This post - adapted from this Spark Summit 2020 Talk - describes optimization techniques done to scale throughput using Apache Spark.

Developing the Journey Plugin for Adobe XD

Ashish Kumar Gupta

Creating mockups of customer journeys can provided a powerful communication tool to share and sell ideas. Customer Journeys made with Adobe XD have never been easier with the new Journey Plugin. Check out this interesting article on how the Journey Plugin for Adobe XD was created by using the XD APIs and React JS.

Blueprint for Audience Activation in Adobe Experience Platform

Jaemi Bremner, Kevin Cobourn, Nick Hecht, Kyle Morehouse, Jody Arthur

How many times have you bought something online, only to continue seeing ads for that product after you've made your purchase? By using Audience Activation in the Experience Platform, you can deliver the right content to the right customer. Instead of trying to sell them something they purchased, the Audience Activation Blueprint can adjust targeting for complementary products to better meet your customer's needs.

Extend and Customize AEM Component Action Toolbar

Uday Patel | Initialyze

Extending and Customizing the Component Action Toolbar is a frequent requirement in custom AEM implementations. This post provides a step-by-step guide for how to do so cleanly and efficiently.

What Is CI/CD² (CI/CD Square)? Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery & Destruction

Shikha Chawla

Without proper monitoring and care, Continuous Integration and Deployment can be costly. When we create CI/CD, we need to pay attention to the cost factor and help with clean up/destruction. Shikha calls it Continuation Integration and Deployment and Continuous Destruction. This article discusses the benefits of this approach and why you should add it to your development cycle today.

Make integrations simple

Damian Mierzwiński | Cognifide

Integrations are the most costly and complex part of doing custom AEM development. Is there a silver bullet that can address issues like flaky tests, unstable environments and non-trivial bugs that slow down the development? This article explains how you can save time and money with a variety of tactics for automated integration testing.

Audience Segmentation with Predictive Audiences

Alexandra Quick

Audience segmentation is universal challenge for all marketers. But soon with Predictive Audiences for Marketo Engage you will be able to maximize registrations and attendance for events, minimize opt-outs, replicate success from one program to the next, and optimize in-flight with intelligent recommendations.

Five Best Practices for AEM Overlays

Theo Pendle

AEM offers two ways to customize out-of-the-box resources: Overlays & Overrides. Overlays allow you to re-define existing resources (i.e.: replace current behaviour), whereas Overrides which allow you to extend existing resources (i.e.: add new behaviour). Want to overlay like a boss? Learn best practices for Overlays including: surgical overlays, avoiding overlaying files, making a no-change first commit, setting your code apart, & separating customizations from projects.

Fast and easy AEM deployment in the cloud

Łukasz Ogrodowczyk & Bartłomiej Gątarski | Cognified

Deployment of AEM in the cloud does not have to be complex and time-consuming. This article describes a novel approach to AEM setup in the cloud using Gradle AEM plugin (GAP) supported by Terraform for the infrastructure and Ansible for configuration management.

⚡ Quick Links

• Case Insensitive Queries with the AEM Query Builder
• Follow up last week's article on Dynamic Imports with a tutorial on how to do so with Webpack
• Learn how to invoke an AEM workflow from a Servlet

💼 Jobs

Jobs Report Summary:

Bounteous

• Adobe Analytics Consultant
• AEM Developer (BE)
• AEM Developer (FE)
• Magento Architect

Focus GTS

• AEM Lead (Remote)
• Remote Sr AEM Developer
• AEM Developer

Vanguard

• Senior Adobe AEM Developer
• Lead Adobe Developer - AEM
• Senior Adobe AEM Developer

Iksula - AEM Developer - Grand Rapids

Infosys - Senior Adobe Analytics Developer(Remote)

ClearBridge Technology Group - Remote AEM Developer or Architect

Intone Networks - AEM Frontend Developer

FinTech LLC - AEM Front end Developer

Hero Digital - Senior Front-End Developer

See full descriptions of the available positions →

Jobs Report: 16 November 2020

Subscribe to AEM.News to see the Jobs Report and more timely and insightful content for the Adobe Experience ecosystem.

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📢 Credits, Contributors & Speakers

The AEM News Letter would not be possible without all of the amazing contributors. A special shout out to those included this week:

Albin Issac, Yeshwanth Vijayakumar, Vineet Sharma, Sandeep Nawathe, Ashish Kumar Gupta, Jaemi Bremner, Kevin Cobourn, Nick Hecht, Kyle Morehouse, Jody Arthur, Dan Klco, Uday Patel, Shikha Chawla, Tushar Mane, Nikhil Kumar, Damian Mierzwiński, Karthik Muralidharan, Hoon Yoo, Manik Jindal, Sarah Xu, Matt Skinner, Kaushal Mall, Theo Pendle, Alexandra Quick, Marcin Jędraszczyk, Łukasz Ogrodowczyk, Bartłomiej Gątarski