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Unlocking the Future: Key Insights and Major Announcements from Sitecore Symposium 2025

Sitecore

I just returned back from Sitecore Symposium 2025 in Orlando, FL and I wanted to share all the latest announcements and give my take on challenges that may come up from those announcements.

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Tips to Debugging Conditions in Sitecore Personalize

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

In today’s blog, I cover some simple gotchas and scenarios for properly debugging a condition in Sitecore Personalize. Often developers don’t realize the differences with modern JavaScript syntax and those supported by Personalize and how they can create challenges when creating a condition.

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Taking the Sitecore Personalize Certification: My Advice

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

This blog post offers personal insights and tips for successfully preparing for the Sitecore Personalize Certification exam, emphasizing the importance of understanding the platform's UI elements and effective study strategies. It provides guidance on using the study guide, practice exams, and community resources to enhance exam readiness.

45 min read

Building a Sitecore Personalize Copilot with Streamable MCP Servers on Cloudflare Workers

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

This blog post discusses the development of a remote Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for Sitecore Personalize using Cloudflare Workers, emphasizing the benefits of hosting MCP servers remotely. It also shows how you can start using the Sitecore Personalize MCP server right away.

45 min read

AI Friday: Building a Hosted MCP Client and Consuming a Remote MCP Server

Generative AI

This blog post discusses building a hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) client and utilizing a remote MCP server, focusing on the setup and configuration processes involved. It introduces an open-source application that allows users to leverage advanced AI capabilities through an API integration, emphasizing the importance of API tokens and remote server functionality.

45 min read

First Look: Sitecore Personalize Code Assistant

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

First look at a new feature to Sitecore CDP and Personalize, called Code Assistant, which is an AI-powered code assistant tool for creating specific types of coded assets in these products, including Audience Export, Conditions and Session Traits. Join me as I walk through this new feature and some of the use cases I ran through.

45 min read

Sitecore Hackathon 2025: Team DED - My Thoughts and Review My Contributions

Sitecore

I recently participated in the Sitecore Hackathon 2025, and in this post, I share my experience and talk a little bit about our contribution and where I’ll go next with it.

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Sitecore XM Cloud: The Correct Way to Resolve GraphQL Too Nested to Execute Issue

Sitecore XM Cloud

I will explore a recent challenge I had while building a complex component with Sitecore XM Cloud, and the steps that I went through to solve that challenge.

45 min read

Sitecore Symposium Recap 2024

Sitecore

This blog post provides an overview of the key insights and takeaways from the Sitecore Symposium in Nashville TN (2024). It highlights the sessions and key takeaways that were the most impactful for me.

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Revolutionizing Sitecore Personalize: Unleashing the Power of Generative AI Function Calling

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

This blog post discusses the integration of Generative AI Function Calling with the Sitecore Personalize SDK to enhance user experience creation through a chat interface. It it introduces a new repository, the Sitecore Assistant, designed to enable users to interact with their Sitecore Cloud instance more effectively.

45 min read

Creating an Experience with the Sitecore Personalize SDK

Sitecore CDP/Personalize

This blog post provides a detailed overview of using the Sitecore Personalize SDK to create Experiences and Experiments, emphasizing the importance of understanding required fields and variations in data for different flow types. It guides readers through the process of initializing the SDK and offers code examples for creating a simple experience and a more complex use case involving decision models.

30 min read

Optimizely SaaS CMS vs Sitecore XM Cloud

Sitecore

Today I have a real treat for those that are curious how Optimizely’s new Headless CMS stacks up vs Sitecore XM Cloud. Alot of exploration and research went into today’s topic so I’m hopeful everyone enjoys this one.

45 min read

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