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If you want to integrate external content sources into Optimizely CMS you are spoilt for choice, in fact it can be hard to figure out which approach to take. You could build a content provider , which provides the deepest integration, but is also...

MartinOttosen

What is  the best load-testing strategy - to invest in a realistic test or take a quick-and-dirty approach? Exactly where to cut away complexity in your load testing depends on your situation, but you may want to use a simplistic version of user...

John Håkansson

While presenting media content available for public download, it might be helpful to provide the file size, particularly for mobile users who may not want to save large files to their phone.  This can be performed on any IContentMedia type by...

Ben Nitti

In my previous posts, we went over the deployment process in the Optimizely/EpiServer DXP environment. The first and the second post of the Deployment API series went through the original methods that allow for deployment into the DXP environment....

Eric Markson

There are a some scenarios, for example content migration, where you have to export the database from a DXP environment and import into the local environment. As it seams really easy to export the database via Epi/Optimizely PaaS Portal and import...

Dren Gashi

In our work to automate export and import of the production database into our test environment we had to maintain a test node in the Episerver page tree. This ment that we had to export it before replacing the database, and then import it again....

Mathias Kunto

Zero downtime you say? Smooth Deploy we say. During the last year we have been working on a feature for Content Cloud called Smooth deploy that solve the problem of applying database updates without having to take the site offline. After running a...

John Håkansson

Importing the test node package that we exported earlier (see article Exporting Episerver content programmatically through an ApiController) would be the next step in our automated transfer of the production database to the testing environment. I...

Mathias Kunto