News from Adobe HQ in Basel: AEM Managed CDN, Edge Delivery and the Launch of Content Hub
I recently returned from a month in Europe with my family, and as a part of this work/play trip I had the opportunity to meet with a number of Adobe engineers & leaders at the Adobe HQ in Basel, Switzerland.
In today’s episode of Arbory Digital’s Update from the Forest, we’re going to discuss a few things that came out of the discussions in Switzerland.
- The launch of Adobe's AEM Assets Content Hub: it was fortuitous timing that the day I visited Adobe was also the launch day for AEM Assets new feature - Content Hub. I got to talk at length with Assets Product Manager Greg Klebus on the subject - and if you’ve ever spent time implementing (or attempting to implement ) AEM Brand Portal, you’ll certainly want to check out Content Hub. Heck, I spent a year supporting a whole AEM site & Assets implementation which totally could have been supported entirely OOTB with Content Hub. Do check it out.
- Adobe's Managed CDN for AEM as a Cloud Service & Edge Delivery: If you’re running Cloud Service, and ESPECIALLY if you’ve got any Edge Delivery sites, you’re going to have a bunch of backend routing to handle to make all of your various publishing & data backends work. Previously, you’d have had to do this all on your own with your own CDN - but now Adobe has a solution that you can get early-access to called Managed CDN. I’m midst getting that provisioned on one of my customer sites now, will let you know what I think once I’ve gotten to kick the tires!
- Edge Delivery & AEM: Importing into the JCR: While at Adobe Summit, I got a chance to do a lab with Dirk on AEM’s new Universal Editor. An interesting item which came out of further discussion on such is that there is a branch of the AEM Importer for Edge Delivery which can take scraped content, turn it into blocks, and then structure it as a JCR package that can be imported into an AEM Author for use in Universal Editor-driven “Crosswalk” sites.
- NEW SECRET STUFF on tooling for Edge Delivery with localization & AEM Assets integration (that’s about all I can say on such for now but it’s SO COOL)
- Meeting old friends and new from Swiss & German AEM projects.
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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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