Distributed Tracing in Sitecore .NET SDK with OpenTelemetry
In a [recent post](https://guidovtricht.nl/blog/opentelemetry-net-setup) I shared how to setup OpenTelemetry in an ASP.NET application.\ Now let's explore how we can optimize that setup in a Sitecore...
View ArticleSitecore Marketplace - Quickstart
This guide describes how to start developing for the Sitecore Marketplace locally, by connecting a JavaScript/TypeScript app to Sitecore using the Marketplace SDK.\ This guide will have you build an...
View ArticleSitecore Marketplace - XM Cloud SDK
In my [previous post](https://guidovtricht.nl/blog/sitecore-marketplace-quickstart) I explained how to get started with a new, Vite based, Sitecore Marketplace App.\ In this post I will show how to...
View ArticleUsing the Sitecore MCP Server in CrewAI
In a previous post, we've seen how to build your own AI application using CrewAI. The Sitecore MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server implementation designed to integrate Sitecore content...
View ArticleGetting Started with CrewAI and FastAPI: Build Your First Conversational AI App
One of my go-to AI frameworks at the moment is CrewAI. CrewAI offers an easily accessible framework for building conversational AI applications that is easy to setup and learn. In this article I'm...
View ArticleSetting up Sitecore ASP.NET Core SDK in a .NET Aspire project
I've recently been working on a project using .NET Aspire. This experience showed me the great potential of Aspire and how it can speed up the development process of large .NET platforms. During this...
View ArticleOpenTelemetry - Basic Kubernetes Setup
This article describes how to deploy a basic setup of OpenTelemetry-supported monitoring and tracing tools on Kubernetes. OpenTelemetry offers a Kubernetes Operator and Helm charts which can be used to...
View ArticleOpenTelemetry - .NET Setup
During the past couple of weeks, I have been working on optimizing the monitoring and tracing setup for one of my projects. We were already using Prometheus and Grafana, but didn't really take...
View ArticleSitecore ASP.NET Core SDK made open-source
A couple of weeks ago, Sitecore made the .NET Core variant of their Headless Rendering SDK open-source on GitHub. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out here: With the release (or the planning of)...
View ArticleAutomated Sitecore content synchronization using Item as Resources
Synchronizing content between Sitecore environments, especially copying production content to non-production environments, has always been challenging. The introductions of serialization tools, such as...
View ArticleMy SUGCON 2023 takeaways
I'm looking back at a great two days at SUGCON Europe 2023. The conference was packed with great sessions from both Sitecore and community members. Yet again I learned a lot from those sessions and got...
View ArticleSitecore scaled environment loses session
Last week I came across a tricky issue which took me several days to fix. We had created a login functionality where a user would be logged in against a 3rd party service, after which we created a...
View ArticleGenerating unique placeholders in Sitecore Headless
For a while now I have been working with Sitecore Headless, to be precise the .NET Rendering Host version of it. It has been a great experience so far, but every now and then I do come across a feature...
View ArticleDefining an OrderCloud platform architecture
With the knowledge from the three previous blog posts, about the OrderCloud SDK, Catalyst and Headstart, in our pocket we can start looking at ways to design the architecture of an OrderCloud based...
View ArticleSharing my thoughts about the OrderCloud Headstart application
When you get a demo from Sitecore about OrderCoud, they will probably do this based on the Headstart demo application. They might even suggest you use it as a starting point for your implementation.\...
View ArticleA first look at the OrderCloud Catalyst library
In this part we will be discussing the OrderCloud Catalyst library. This Catalyst library can be very helpful when creating a middleware application which acts as the gateway between your frontend...
View ArticleExploring the OrderCloud .NET SDK
While I explore the capabilities of OrderCloud I am taking notes as to what I do and how different tools from OrderCloud work. In this blog post I will share some of the things I learned about the .NET...
View ArticleSitecore OrderCloud - Which SDK should I use?
Over the past few weeks I have been playing around with Sitecore OrderCloud. I learned that there are multiple ways on how you can build an application around the OrderCloud APIs. If you want to start...
View ArticleBuilding a Flutter App on Sitecore Headless
Based on the knowledge gathered in my previous post, we can now start building a Flutter App. *Note: The approach I took to build this Flutter App is not what I would use in any production-like...
View ArticleExploring Sitecore Headless Services
A while ago I wanted to test the possibilities with Sitecore Headless and in the mean time also learn a new platform and even language. I decided to build a simple mobile app based on content coming...
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