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Sprout endless sites from a single Next.js and Umbraco instance
Has building ordinary, single websites become monotonous for you? Do you need to let loose and just try something new for a bit? Well, you're in luck, we've got just the thing to spice up your developer life. In this article, we will show you how to build multiple different websites using just a single Umbraco instance as the CMS and a single Next.js as the frontend. And to get that sweet, sweet performance, we're also going to use Enterspeed as a speed layer to serve our content.
Are you geared for a downhill market?
In a market where prices rise and growth falters, you need to keep in control of your expenses. Are you spending your money wisely?
The inconvenient truth of the IT imperfection of the world
IT infrastructure is seldom the result of perfect decisions that just keeps on working. In reality, most companies are dragging along legacy that they need to maintain simply to stay in business. The world isn't perfect – and neither is infrastructure. But that just makes it more fun 😎🕺
Using Google Sheets as your CMS
Spreadsheets. They are everywhere. Managers especially seem to love them, which is why the world properly would stop functioning without them. Like some twisted version of Murphy's law, it seems that anything that can fit into a spreadsheet eventually will end up in a spreadsheet
Enabling Preview mode in your Next.js application
There's no doubt about it - Jamstack is here to stay. Since Matt Biilmann took the concept mainstream back in 2016, a whole ecosystem based upon this architecture has sprung up. Developers love the benefits a Jamstack architecture can bring to both the site itself and the workflow of the project.
Customer story: Developing a scalable stack on tried technology
Choosing between building or buying has significant impact on your infrastructural development project. To Global Equestrian Group the choice was easy enough – because why build when you can buy tested technology?
Reduce debugging time with easy access to real-time content and data 🥂
Let’s be honest. Synchronizing data between different development environments can be a hassle. You might even be doing it manually. But not anymore!
Happy editors with Umbraco preview and Enterspeed ❤️
Congratulations on your new headless website! Everybody is happy, right? No? Too often, content editors are left with a complex experience in the headless architecture. But don’t fret. In this blog post, you can read how you enable your editors to preview content on your Umbraco headless website using Enterspeed.
Ecommerce: Is your growth based on being lucky or being good?
What are the 10 battle zones that companies need to face to stay competitive once the Corona tailwind fades? Are you succeeding because you’re good? Or just lucky? Over the past year and a half, almost all eCommerce companies, retailers, and brands playing in the eCommerce space have experienced extraordinary growth and increasing profitability.
Make legacy great again
Most mature companies stuck on legacy architecture are overwhelmed by the digital and technical dept they have in front of them. Many have invested heavily in an eCommerce or similar solution 5(ish) years ago and are now looking at an old system landscape that is rigid, complex, and expensive to maintain.
Core Web Vitals can affect how Google ranks your SPA website
Enterspeed represents the A in Jamstack. Our Enterspeed Headless Hub as the integration layer is the perfect match to your Jamstack architecture. The Jamstack architecture refers to JavaScript, APIs, and markup. The core principles of Jamstack are pre-rendering and decoupling. The common theme for pre-rendering and decoupling is speed – speed and agility are both the DNA of Jamstack and Enterspeed.
Enterspeed as the integration layer in Jamstack 🍓
Enterspeed represents the A in Jamstack. Our Enterspeed Headless Hub as the integration layer is the perfect match to your Jamstack architecture. The Jamstack architecture refers to JavaScript, APIs, and markup. The core principles of Jamstack are pre-rendering and decoupling. The common theme for pre-rendering and decoupling is speed – speed and agility are both the DNA of Jamstack and Enterspeed.
How fast should your website be in 2020?
We are often asked the question of how fast a website should be. This is the definition of a good question and we are really happy to answer it. The answer is actually quite complicated, but in this post, we will both give you concrete numbers you can use to evaluate your own website and give you a bit of knowledge that you can put into actual use.
Use Your Existing Content with Enterspeed
Many of the organisations of today are digitally mature and have spent the last decade or more creating and curating a vast amount of digital content. The investment in content is likely much larger than the investment in technology – and good content always outlives IT. Let’s see if we can breathe some new life into this investment.
Performance Engineering 101: Top 5 Things to Consider for a Blazingly Fast Website
Performance is essential to the user experience and can have a tremendous impact on your success – that’s the premise for us at Enterspeed. This post will not provide concrete answers on how you achieve perfect performance. Instead, our aim is to have you begin thinking critically about the technical challenges and opportunities you have in front of you.
Breaking the update curve
We have all tried it: if you do not update your software accordingly, then you will lose either support or you get an insecure setup. This is not a big problem if you remain standard and/or are only updating apps. But for large enterprises, sitting with customised platforms and codebases keeping up with the update curve is expensive, cumbersome, and time-consuming.
Serve Edge data at the front – makes you more agile
In a highly volatile world, you need to be agile – at least, that is what we have learned during the corona crisis. Actually, this is what Charles Darwin tried to say to us almost 200 years ago: “it is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”