The new version of the Stream for PDXP has two exciting new features:
- Brand Kits – user can generate content in context of a selected Brand.
- Multiple Content Variants – users can select the number of variants to be generated in one request.
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Sitecore Stream for Platform DXP March Update 2025
Last month Sitecore released the Sitecore Stream for PDXP, and today the new update is available and it’s highly recommended for update because it simplifies installation and brings various bug fixes and UX improvements. Follow the official documentation to learn more.
The release including:
- Bug Fixes: addressed minor issues to enhance overall stability and performance.
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Sitecore Stream for Platform DXP
During the Winter Launch 2025, Sitecore has released the Sitecore Stream for Platform DXP. Now you can use the new functionality to enhance your Sitecore experience with AI capabilities.
Agenda
- Download the package.
- Package content.
- Content Generation.
- Scenarios.
- Launchpad.
Sitecore XM Migration Tool v2.1 (October 2024)
Last year, I wrote the Sitecore XM to XM Cloud Content Migration article about the brand-new tool from Sitecore that helps to migrate content, media and users to XM Cloud. Now, I would like to share what is new in the just-released XM to XM Cloud Tool v2.1.
Agenda
- Where to get?
- What’s new?
- XMM V1 or V2?
- Updates in GUI.
- What should I know about new configuration?
- Support.
Sitecore XM to XM Cloud Content Migration
Agenda:
- Introduction
- What does this tool do?
- What does the tool look like?
- What ZIP file contain?
- Prerequisites
- Sitecore XM Migration GUI
- Sitecore XM Migration Console
Sitecore has lots of customers who developed their solution based on classic Sitecore OnPrem which exists in the market for 2 decades. Also, Sitecore released the XM Cloud, a fully SaaS solution in July 2022.
Lots of customers continue to use the OnPrem solutions, new customers prefer to use the SaaS version and of course, some would like to switch to it, but it requires lots of effort. Sitecore just released to the public a brand-new XM to XM Cloud Content Migration tool that assists in minimizing the account’s barriers to migrating to Composable DXP.
What does this tool do?
It helps migrate customers’ data from the source of the XM OnPrem instance to the XM Cloud account. It migrates the content, media, and internal users (but not custom site data at this moment).
Continue reading “Sitecore XM to XM Cloud Content Migration”Security in Sitecore Order Cloud and Access Token
The Sitecore Order Cloud is a rich and mature e-commerce engine.
It has a few must-know security related definitions:
- Security Profiles– a custom scope of the roles which can be assigned to the different levels: user, user group, buyer, seller, or supplier level.
- Roles – this is data access, which can be granularly assigned, for example, BuyerReader, BuyerAdmin, OrderAdmin, etc.:
Architecture System Requirements
There are 2 types of system requirements:
- Functional requirements (FR).
- Non-functional requirements (NFR).
Locust as a modern load testing framework
The Locust is an alternate tool to the JMeter. Locust allow you to write load tests in python, this tutorial describes how from scratch make a simple load testing and see results. Let’s do the following steps:
- Install python on your system.
- Install Pip (package manager).
- Install Locust: pip install locust.
- Simple locust script.
- The simple script as the Hello World I’ve added to Github and you can utilize it.
- Download the scripts and put is to any folder, let’s say under the C:\LocustScript
- You should see the next files:
- locust.py (required file).
- loadtesting.sh (this one is optional).
- Run script: you can already execute the loadttesting.sh and see the next console window:
Please pay attention to the output url: http://0.0.0.0:8089, please adjust the address to the next: http://localhost:8089, (as the IP-format may not work) and paste to the browser, you should see the next:
Continue reading “Locust as a modern load testing framework”How to get and put files under Kubernetes pod
1. Copy a file from the App_Data/logs/ path of the default/cm-5c57dbd5d5-pqwh9 pod into the local C:/myf/log.txt file:
kubectl cp default/cm-5c57dbd5d5-pqwh9:App_Data/logs/log.20201215.092051.txt /myf/log.txt
2. Copy the Sitecore.ContentTesting.dll file from the local machine into the pod with path bin/Sitecore.ContentTesting.dll
kubectl cp C:\Work\Solutions\CT\code\Sitecore.ContentTesting\bin\Debug\Sitecore.ContentTesting.dll default/cm-5c57dbd5d5-pqwh9:.\bin\Sitecore.ContentTesting.dll
3. Copy all the files from the App_Data/logs/ path into the local C:/myf/:
kubectl cp default/cm-5c57dbd5d5-pqwh9:App_Data/logs/ /myf/
Note for the #3: please check that all the files are copied, in my case some of them were missed somehow, if you know why it may happens please let me know, thank you in advance!
Basic checklist for smart contract deployment
Let’s say we have a simple smart contract MemoryToken, it can be even a stub which has only 1 field name.
pragma solidity ^0.5.0;
contract MemoryToken {
string public name = "Memory token";
}
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