Adobe Summit Decoded: Decoding Adobe Summit for the AEM Coding Community
Adobe Summit 2024 ushered in a number of technologies which promise to create fundamental shifts in how technologists approach the design, architecture and rollout of Digital Experience solutions and CMS solutions as whole.
Arbory Digital is proud to partner with the CXCommunity and industry technology luminaries from the Adobe community to filter through the noise and discuss the key take-aways that you should be aware of for the coming year with “Decoding Adobe Summit for the Coding Community.” Video from this meetup, held 30 May 2024, follows:
Top moments in the meetup:
- 0:00 - Introductions
- 3:37 - Adobe Partners perspective on Summit
- 7:50 - Adobe's stance on AI leadership & AEM
- 11:45 - new toys to play with (Edge Delivery & Dynamic Media)
- 14:45 - AEM Assets & asset analytics
- 15:56 - Asset Analytics limitations
- 17:45 - Developers took the focus at Adobe Summit
- 20:41 - Workfront or AEM Workflows?
- 21:50 - What is Edge Delivery Services (Helix)?
- 26:50 - How much does Edge Delivery cost & what versions is it available with?
- 29:45 - Edge Delivery environments vs AEM
- 33:00 - Are these new tools right for everything?
- 38:04 - What's the support structure for Edge Delivery?
- 41:25 - What verticals are adopting Edge Delivery?
- 45:00 - Q&A
- 52:00 - AEM in-person US event
Top Adobe Summit Sessions for the AEM Community
The following Adobe Summit sessions are some of our top picks for getting up to speed with new and emerging technologies released and updated at Adobe Summit 2024. These sessions are free to stream online so long as you have an Adobe account, definitely give them a watch.
- Mastering the CMS Maze: How Adobe.com Standardizes for Scale and Speed
A topic that (for some) flew under the radar, was that Adobe themselves have migrated nearly all of their self-hosted AEM 6.5 properties as well as their AEM as a Cloud service properties to AEM Edge Delivery Services (the artist formerly known as Helix or Franklin). This session goes over their journey on AEM, what their decision points were, and what they’ve experienced as a part of this migration, which site developers or owners for AEM properties of any size can certainly take something away from. - Adobe Experience Manager Sites: Top Innovations: Find out here about the top new features and innovations of AEM this year, including the new Universal Editor, AI content variations, intent-based experience generation and integrations between AEM and Adobe Journey Optimizer.
- Adobe Experience Manager Assets: Top DAM Innovations: With all of the possibilities (and uncertainties!) around designing infrastructure for AEM Site, AEM Assets continues to just make more and more of a case for itself. The new asset search UI is a big headliner, as well as quick actions in Assets (knockouts, masking, resizing, etc ALL IN THE DAM) as well as asset remixing with GenAI.
- AEM Dynamic Media: One Main Asset Delivered with Limitless Possibilities (adobe.com): The new API-driven features in Dynamic Media make a better-than-ever strong case for being able to unify asset delivery into one place no matter where your website’s code is delivered from. This session was UTTERLY FASCINATING.
Additionally, please watch our infrastructure-disruption Adobe Summit recap where several people reached out to me to ask if I was OK, or had been kidnapped & held against my will, due to my complete about-face on the subject of Edge Delivery.
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About the Author
Tad Reeves
Principal Architect at Arbory Digital
AEM Architect & DevOps guy with 14 years experience on AEM/CQ and 25+ years in systems infrastructure. He’s been mountain biking longer than he’s been doing system administration, and though originally from Maine, makes his home in the mountains of Northwest Georgia.
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