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Highlights from AWS re:Invent 2016

Another AWS re:Invent is behind us and it was packed with exciting announcements including the launch of new products, extension of existing services and much more. It was the biggest re:Invent ever with whopping 32,000 attendees and numerous exhibitors. The conference was kicked off with a keynote from Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services, […]

Implementing Single Sign On in AEM using SAML

SAML stands for “Security Assertion Markup Language.” It is an XML-based standard for communicating identity information between organizations and the cloud. It is used for enabling the secure transmittal of authentication tokens and other user attributes across cloud domains. AEM 5.6 and above ships with a SAML authentication handler. This handler provides support for the SAML […]

Best Performing AEM Sites

Google PageSpeed Insights is a great tool for developers to identify ways to make their websites faster and more mobile-friendly. I tend to check the our websites with PageSpeed during development phase to identify issues early on which can impact the performance of our AEM websites. Out of curiosity, I checked the PageSpeed scores of […]

AWS Unveils Host Of New Tools and Services At re:Invent

AWS announced host of exciting new tools and services on the first day of AWS re:invent 2104 conference. I am sure there will be further product announcements tomorrow. Here is a quick introduction to the key services announced today: Amazon RDS for Aurora Amazon Aurora is a MySQL-compatible, relational database engine that combines the speed […]

High Performance MongoDB on Storage-Optimized AWS EC2

Amazon Web Services provides a number of NoSQL database alternatives for developers. You can run fully managed non-relational services like Amazon’s DynamoDB or work with Amazon Solution providers like MongoDB or Couchbase. AWS has partnered with MongoDB which provides support and training for customers running their products on Amazon EC2 and Amazon EBS. MongoDB is […]

Steps to install Adobe AEM (CQ) 5.6 on Amazon AWS

Here are the quick steps to install the Adobe AEM 5.6 (aka CQ 5.6) authoring instance on Amazon linux instance. Connect to AWS server Connect to the server using Putty or similar software and navigate to the directory where you want to install your AEM instance. If the CQ jar and license properties file are […]

CQ5 Development – How to Build a CQ5 Page Template

In my last article in this series we discussed about how to Setup a new CQ application/project. This article demonstrates how to create a custom page template in Adobe AEM 5.6 (aka CQ5). A Template is a basis of a page and it defines which components can be used within the selected scope. Its the […]

CQ5 Development – How to setup a new CQ application/project

This series of articles aims to help you start with Adobe AEM (aka CQ5) development. I will demonstrate how to implement the following using AEM 5.6: Setup a new CQ application/site Create a CQ Template Create a Page rendering Component Create Pages in CQ Setup a new CQ application/projects CQ application comprises of elements like […]

Quick Overview of Adobe Marketing Cloud

Adobe Marketing Cloud (AMC) provides an integrated solution for customers digital marketing efforts. It includes a complete set of analytics, social, advertising, targeting, Web experience management, mobile services, cross-channel campaign management solutions and a social-enabled UI that brings together everything marketers need to know about their campaigns. Watch this video to get a better understanding […]

What is Angular JS

This Lynda.com video provides a quick introduction to Angular JS. Here is link to the entire course. AngularJS is a JavaScript framework for creating single page web applications. However, a lot of times when you hear about it, there’s a lot of technical jargon associated with the framework. So let’s take a minute to understand […]