Blog posts by Episerver Dispatch2023-10-29T22:30:00.0000000Zhttps://world.optimizely.com/blogs/episerver-dispatch/ Optimizely World Transitioning to Optimizely SaaS Core: Enhancing My Digital PresenceTransitioning to Optimizely SaaS Core has significantly enhanced my digital presence, allowing for limitless creativity and streamlined processes in building headless solutions, while seamlessly integrating with my preferred static site generator framework, Vitepress.2023-10-29T22:30:00.0000000ZBlog post How to fix database migration issuesThis post covers some issues I encountered while doing a database migration and the steps I took to resolved them.2023-01-22T23:30:00.0000000ZBlog post Running Optimizely sites on macOSWhile writing the series on the Move to .NET5, I started entertaining the idea of developing some Optimizely sites on my MacBook, since .NET is now macOS compatible.2023-01-06T01:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Create some Optimizely sites on .NET5This is the third article in a 3-part series on how to create an Optimizely based on the .NET5 framework. In the previous article of this series, I went into installing the tools and scaffolding templates that will help us create some new Optimizely projects. In this article, I will go over the required steps to create some new CMS, Commerce and Alloy sites.2022-10-26T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Dotnet CLI templatesThis is the second article in a 3-part series on how to create an Optimizely based site running on the .NET5 framework. In the previous article of this series, I went into creating a new .NET5 application with the out of the box dotnet CLI templates. In this article, I will cover what needs to be done to get access to some Optimizely oriented scaffolding templates.2022-07-19T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Dotnet cli basisThis is the first article in a 3-part series on how to create an Optimizely based on the .NET5 framework. In this first artciel, I will cover the basics of the donet cli tools. In the second article, I will cover the templates that are available to create Optimizely sites. In the third article, I will cover how to create Optimizely sites, and how to configure them.2022-04-26T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post What will the .NET release cycle look like?One thing that comes out of the Optimizely migration to the .NET5 framework process is when should you upgrade your solutions? To answer this question, we should be looking at what will be the lifecycle for the .NET. releases going forward. .NET releases will be following the Long-Term Support (LTS) product lifecycle management policy.2022-03-10T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post What are the Optimizely implementation references for .NET5 sites?You heard about the newest version of the Optimizely Cloud and Commerce platforms, and you would like to experiment with them before planning a full site migration? You want to evaluate what the migration efforts of your custom functionalities would be? This is where example and references sites might help.2022-03-01T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post What are the benefits of moving to a .NET5 Optimizely implementation?The answer to this question will depend on the type of user you are. On the short term, the visitors will enjoy the same great experience, but with faster page rendering times, which is a good thing since visitors are not willing to wait. The way the Optimizely team proceeded with the migration of the platform make this migration seamless to the visitor experience.2022-02-22T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post The move to .NET5At the end of last year, Optimizely announced the latest version of their Content (version 12) and Commerce (version 14) cloud platform. This announcement had a special flavour to it. Other than being product updates, those new releases had a major change at their core. The underlying technology stack on which those products are built, which is the .2022-02-15T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post How to start a formula 1 engine - and improve our site visitor experience (part 3)Caching - Part - 3 This is the third article in a series about using what we can learn from the formula 1 engineers and apply it to our Optimizely implementation to improve our visitor experience. In this series, I will discuss some techniques to enhance our visitor experience by improving the delivery time of your content.2022-02-01T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post How to start a formula 1 engine - and improve our site visitor experience (part 2)This is the second article in a series about using what we can learn from the formula 1 engineers and apply it to our Optimizely implementation to improve our visitor experience. In this series, I will discuss some techniques to enhance our visitor experience by improving the delivery time of your content.2022-01-18T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post How to start a formula 1 engine - and improve our site visitor experienceWe all have an idea on how to start a car engine. Electric car and newer model have a start engine button, older people will remember starting a car with a key. And we might even have people old enough to have started their car engine with a crank. But on a Sunday, how do the engineers start the engine of one the fastest car on earth?2022-01-05T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Personalization - Content recommendation - The FutureIn this series about Personalization, I covered some of the steps that can be taken on a personalization journey. From personalization achieve by handcrafted segmentation, to a one-on-one personalization experience done using the wizardry of artificial intelligence algorithms. In this article, I want to cover some ways we can help our customer move forward on their personalization journey and how we can take advantage of data to go even further.2021-12-21T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Personalization - Content recommendation - Implementation (part 2)This is part 2 on the implementation of Optimizely Content Recommendation product. In the first part, I discussed about the integration of the Content Recommendation package and the administration, configuration and dashboards it brings to our solution implementation. In this article, I’ll discuss how the Content Recommendation package can be used to deliver personalized content to our site visitors.2021-12-07T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Personalization - Content recommendation - Implementation (part 1)In the previous article, I covered the basics of applying one-on-one content personalization by using Optimizely Content Recommendation. Now let’s discuss how to integrate Content Recommendation and the implementation details of some of the configuration options. When implementing a content recommendation strategy using the Optimizely Content Recommendation product, the first thing to do is to add a script to our page that will ingest the site content for analysis and will deliver recommended content to the visitors.2021-11-23T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Personalization - Content recommendationIn the previous articles on the personalization series, I covered the basics of content personalization and how it can be achieved by using Optimizely visitor groups to implement a segmentation strategy. In the next articles of the series, I’ll discuss the next step on the personalization roadmap, which is create a one-on-one experience, using Optimizely Content Recommendation.2021-11-09T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Personalization - Segmentation - ImplementationThis is the third article in a series about personalization. During this series, I will cover the different sides of personalization, from more general definitions of personalization to Optimizely cloud-based products offering and how to implement them. The first article was about building the foundation to help customers move along their personalization journey.2021-10-26T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Personalization - SegmentationThis is the second article in a series about personalization. During this series, I will cover the different sides of personalization, from more general definitions of personalization to Optimizely cloud-based personalization products offering and how to implement them. The first article was about building the foundation to help customers move along the personalization path.2021-10-12T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post Personalization - An introductionThis is the first article in a series about personalization. During this series, I will cover the different sides of personalization, from more general definitions of personalization, to Optimizely cloud-based products offering and how to implement them. In this article, for the sake of simplicity, “content” could be anything from literal content, media assets or products on an e-commerce site.2021-09-29T10:00:00.0000000ZBlog post