Layer One Media, Senior Sitecore Architect — SUGCON EU 2017
It was very exciting to see how far Stephen Pope has come to now release v2.0 of the Sitecore Publish Service built on .NET Core. It is now to the point that the recommendation from Sitecore is to add it to any Sitecore instance! I’ve downloaded it already and can’t wait to dive in!
Stefano Tempesta then delivered an excellent presentation on Optimising Sitecore Sites with Azure Redis Cache and Machine Learning.
Side-Note: While I am sure many of the speakers and their presentations are likely shared or published on the internet somewhere, the greatest value came from the excitement of seeing it live, in person. Everything exponentially increases the ability to connect, discuss, brainstorm — and if time would have allowed, even a “hackathon,” which I would still love to do!
Then I was excited to see the innovation happening in the Sitecore Commerce Overview by Thomas Moller Jensen. The platform, the capabilities, the roadmap, and Sitecore’s ability to innovate on the product are all very exciting — plus it’s built with .NET Core. 😀 The eCommerce flow kept rolling with Willem Haring & Erwin Werkman’s excellent How to Start Selling Products with Sitecore.
Alex Shyba and Adam Weber stole the show with their demo of JSS and SiteFlix! The ability to build complete sites with nothing but JavaScript — utilizing pure JavaScript frameworks like React (with Angular on the roadmap) — is extraordinary. The fact that it would be released that summer into private beta was extremely exciting. Imagine the Sitecore Experience Platform built “completely” with these capabilities. The pace of innovation across the entire platform would only grow exponentially.
Then Jeppe Grue and Pieter Brinkman brought the amazing event to a close. Jeppe delivered The Sitecore Philosophy and how everything they do is always tied back to what the community needs.
In closing and in my humble opinion, it really brings to light the innovation that is now possible at an astronomical rate — not only from the Sitecore platform itself, but when you combine it with the explosive innovation coming from all the major vendors: Microsoft, Amazon, Google, IBM, and virtually everyone else building some form of machine learning or artificial intelligence framework to deliver even greater business value to their customers.