Engineering Blog
Technical insights on Optimizely CMS, Commerce, and the modern .NET ecosystem.
DevPulse: Architecture of a Real-Time AI Workspace
<![CDATA[ DevPulse started from a simple premise: project data should not be frozen. In most developer tools, AI features operate on a snapshot — data that was indexed last night, or whenever a bac...
How Claude Agents Actually Work: A 6-Layer Architecture Breakdown
<![CDATA[ Most developers, when they first wire up an LLM agent, carry a flawed mental model: the model runs code. It does not. Understanding where the boundary actually sits — what Anthropic's inf...
Modernizing Enterprise Auth: Integrating Azure AD SSO into Legacy Systems
In the evolving landscape of enterprise software, managing identity is often the most significant friction point for both developers and end-users. At a mid-sized tech firm—let's call it TechFlow S...
How We Built Google OAuth Authentication Between a Next.js Frontend and a Headless CMS Backend
Overview When building a modern content platform, one of the most interesting architectural challenges is connecting a Next.js frontend to a headless CMS backend with a smooth, secure authenticatio...
How We Wired an E-Commerce Platform to SAP (and What We Learned the Hard Way)
The Problem Statement If you've ever worked on an e-commerce platform that needs to talk to SAP, you already know the fun: two worlds with completely different ideas about data, timing, and what co...
MCP Deployment Strategies: Stdio vs. HTTP SSE vs. WebSocket
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly emerged as the standard for connecting Large Language Models (LLMs) to external data sources and tools. As architects and developers, choosing the right...
Deep Dive into Timesheet Submission Architecture in ASP.NET Core
Introduction Building a reliable timesheet submission system for enterprise applications involves much more than saving hours to a database. It requires careful orchestration of data persistence, m...
Securing Optimizely in 2025: .NET 8 and Zero Trust
As the complexity of modern DXP solutions increases—integrating Optimizely CMS, Episerver Commerce, microservices, and decoupled frontends (like our Vite implementation)—the perimeter defense model...
Building Event-Driven Email Notifications with Kafka in a Timesheet System
Introduction Modern timesheet applications require reliable email notifications for approvals, submissions, and status updates. Traditional synchronous email sending can slow down your application ...
Optimizely CMS 12 & Gemini: Automated Blog Post Generation
Scaling high-quality, technically accurate content is one of the most significant challenges facing platform teams. Maintaining consistency, ensuring SEO compliance, and keeping the content pipelin...