Dylan Young: Blog Content on AI, Sitecore and Typescript/React

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.

November 09, 2025

35 min read

Tips to Debugging Conditions in Sitecore 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.

October 10, 2025

35 min read

Taking the Sitecore Personalize Certification: My Advice

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.

September 15, 2025

45 min read

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

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.

August 25, 2025

45 min read

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

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.

June 12, 2025

45 min read

First Look: Sitecore Personalize Code Assistant

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.

June 05, 2025

45 min read

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

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.

March 28, 2025

30 min read

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.

February 26, 2025

45 min read

Sitecore Symposium Recap 2024

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.

October 25, 2024

1.5 Hours Read Time

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

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.

October 07, 2024

45 min read

Creating an Experience with the Sitecore Personalize SDK

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.

September 10, 2024

30 min read

Optimizely SaaS CMS vs Sitecore XM Cloud

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.

September 02, 2024

45 min read

Create Web Template and Flow Integration Tests with Sitecore Personalize

This blog post explores the use of the Sitecore Personalize SDK to create automated integration tests for web templates, focusing on methods for testing both new and existing templates. It highlights the importance of these testing capabilities in ensuring the quality of personalization efforts within the Sitecore environment.

August 13, 2024

20 min read

Introduction to Sitecore Personalize SDK and Testing

This blog post introduces the Sitecore Personalize Tenant SDK, a JavaScript-based tool designed to simplify interactions with Sitecore Personalize's Management REST APIs. It discusses the SDK's potential applications for creating, managing, and testing various assets within the Sitecore Personalize ecosystem.

July 30, 2024

30 min read

Sitecore Personalize: The Secret of Writing Code in the Product

In today’s blog post, I’ll cover writing functionality in Sitecore Personalize, and some useful tips for writing the flavor of code required and how Gen AI can assist with this process.

July 11, 2024

20 min read

AI Friday: Prompt Engineering Basics

In this weeks AI Friday episode, I’ll be covering a scenario where I wanted to have Generative AI create an output specific future additional development and the natural progression I went through to turn that into reality with the help of proper Prompt Engineering.

June 28, 2024

20 min read

Boost Your Sitecore MVP Journey: An Insiders Viewpoint

In this blog post I reflect on my recent role in Developer Advocacy at Sitecore, where I contributed content frequently. Now after Sitecore, I plan to continue contributing content and I wanted to share some of the ways I plan to do this moving forward.

June 26, 2024

15 min read

Comparing Personalization Options for Sitecore Personalize when Building with Sitecore

In this blog post I’ll look at various options when wanting to personalize experiences with Sitecore Personalize. I’ll cover if you are using XM Cloud and then scenarios or options that are available to you if you are using XP/XM and then finally everyone else.

April 10, 2024

15 min read

Sitecore Search User Profile Personalization with Personalize

Sitecore Search

In this blog post I’ll look at how you can use the Sitecore Search User profile to access affinity scores and recent searches to help personalize the users experience on your site, using Sitecore Personalize.

April 08, 2024

45 min read

Enabling Sitecore Personalize Web Experiences on XM Cloud

In this blog post we explore the changes needed to support Sitecore Personalize Web Experience/Experiments for XM Cloud. We’ll talk about the differences presented in JSS 21.6 and above as well as the changes needed for the Engage SDK.

March 26, 2024

15 min read

Achieving Behavioral Personalization (AKA XP Pattern/Profile Cards) with Sitecore Personalize

Learn how to use Sitecore Personalize to achieve XP-like pattern-profile-cards-with-any CMS, including XM Cloud.

December 06, 2023

35 minute read

Getting Started with Chat Copilot Generative AI Development

In this blog post, I will take a step back and provide an overview of the segments of functionality that make up most modern Generative AI Chat Copilot. I will also discuss popular options and terms that are useful when building your own chat copilot application.

September 01, 2023

20 min read

Create a Local Chat Assistant with Open AI and Microsoft Chat Copilot

In my latest blog this week, I’m going to talk about how you can start with the Microsoft Chat Copilot open source repository to start creating your own copilot application with Open AI locally on your own machine.

August 25, 2023

35 min read

Sitecore Personalize: New Developer Focused API Keys

Today a project that has been in the works for a few months, which is to improve the developer experience with developer-generated tokens for Sitecore Personalize have been released, and I’ll talk through this release and some of the things it means for Developers.

June 14, 2023

Part Two: Using Extended View Event Data in a Sitecore Personalize Decision Model

In my next blog post on Sitecore CDP/Personalize, I look into building upon my recent content on how to capture additional arbitrary information about the pages that my users are viewing, but in this post I will explore how to then use that information in a decision model which we will then use for a Web Experience.

January 24, 2023

Capturing Additional Data in a View Event in Sitecore CDP/Personalize

In my latest blog post on Sitecore CDP/Personalize, I explore the different approaches to track arbitrary information in CDP, so that we can then use Sitecore Personalize in a later blog post to create a Decision Model and a Unique Web Experience based on the content the user is viewing for my blog.

December 13, 2022

20 minute read

Introducing Sitecore CDP/Personalize Serializer/CLI Tool

I walk the user through a PoC that I introduced to the community at Sitecore Symposium 2022 in Chicago, on a New Developer experience for Sitecore CDP/Personalize, including the journey to create this PoC and what’s next for this project.

October 28, 2022

20 min read

Sitecore Personalize: How to Recover an Archived/Deleted Experience or Experiment

In this article I walk the user through the different authentication types for OAuth and working with Sitecore CDP/Personalize. Once I’ve covered authentication, I take the user through the exercise of using the APIs to recover an archive/deleted experience/experiment.

October 04, 2022

15 min read

How to Change the Node Version for Netlify Builds

Backend Development

In this article we take a look at how to use the package.json to specify a node/npm engine for our local development. We then explore the .nvmrc file and how this applies to a Netlify build to enforcing netlify to build with a specific version.

September 30, 2022

Closing a Session in Sitecore CDP with the Stream API Using Postman

In my latest video for Discover Sitecore, I am going through a flow with Postman, one topic from that video that I wanted to cover deeper, is how to use the Stream or Real Time API’s in Postman to end/kill a session.

September 01, 2022

Building Your First Node JS CLI

Backend Development

In this article, I take the reader on the journey as I explore how to create a Node-based CLI. I talk a little bit about how to run a CLI using NPM or NPX and then cover the code I used to create one.

August 25, 2022

First Look at Github CoPilot - AI Powered Programming

Developer Experience

First Look into AI Powered Programming. Should we worry about losing our jobs or will this just increase Developer efficiency. This article is my first initial thoughts on Github Copilot with less than 24 hours of usage.

May 27, 2022

Getting the GuestRef in the Browser with Sitecore CDP/Personalize