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DFDS goes serverless
For the past year I have been part of the new cloud first initiative of the shipping and logistics company called DFDS. The cloud first initiative is not a movement to force everything into the cloud but rather have cloud as the first option if it makes sense. If it does not, it still is alright to utilize our alternatives, like our own datacenter.
Content model changes at scale – TELUS and CMS as Code
The role of technology and its effect on today’s world has reached an incredible scale, with the number of different channels to serve content being just mind boggling. In this article, we’ll share how Telus, a Canadian telecommunications company, handled the described challenges—running around 500 migrations while constantly shipping new features.
Contentful joins forces with Optimizely, Atlassian, AWS and more to deliver modern digital experiences faster
Contentful joins the Digital Experience Stack (DXS) as a founding member of what promises to be a trendsetting alliance.
The modern website strategy guide: how content infrastructure is accelerating digital products
Websites have evolved from a collection of published pages to full applications that offer sophisticated, engaging experiences. Learn best practices and new technologies like content infrastructure that empower your entire website team to ship content updates—fast.
A beginner's guide to creating a static site using React, Gatsby, Contentful and Netlify
For the past decade, my go-to choice of CMS for client and personal projects has been Wordpress. In fact, apart from one embarassing and short-lived design forum called Lethal GFX which used PHPBB, almost everything I've built has used it. Recently, I've been teaching myself React and wanted to rebuild my personal Wordpress site using my new-found React skills. Let me share a beginner's guide to how I spun up my personal site using Gatsby, Contentful and Netlify.
Contentful August developer update
In this post, we’re covering our latest changes, favorite UI Extension, and articles from the past month.
Develop, edit & deploy websites entirely in the cloud with the CodeSandbox, Contentful and Netlify trio
Setting up a development machine can be a tedious process. Building software products relies heavily on things like your favorite editor or IDE to be productive, it depends on installed dependencies like databases, shell programs or servers to actually run and update your software. Turns out you really can develop websites, make them editable and later deploy them from any computer using powerful online services today.
An extremely picky developer's take on static site generators for PHP: Part 2 - Jigsaw
In the first article of the series we took a look at Sculpin, the PHP static site generator which is currently the most starred on Github. Today we’re exploring Jigsaw, a tool which promises to bring a Laravel-based approach to the world of PHP static site generators (SSGs).
A Serverless alternative to WordPress (community post)
In all my career I always had to battle with a WordPress installation, first it was my personal blog then it was the public facing website of companies I worked for. It’s not in the scope of this post to elicit the flaws and fragility of the WordPress platform, but my main drivers as CTO of Labrador were...
Making the most of Marketo with UI extensions and Lambda functions
Marketo offers a suite of marketing automation tools that addresses the different subfields of marketing and hence, can be utilized extensively by the various arms of a full-blown marketing department. We at Contentful use Marketo as one of the solutions to handle duties performed by our marketing folks, such as forms on our landing pages.
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Upcoming Contentful Events
Toronto Contentful Developers Meetup #4: Contentful at scale and managing 3rd party APIs
Learn about scaling content with a focus on making it reusable.
Contentful Certification Workshop [October edition]
Get your Contentful Certification. Join our one-day event, packed with workshops, practice sessions, and only a few, short presentations. Learn about the practices with Contentful from our Solution Engineers and exchange knowledge with other Contentful users.
Contentful Developers Meetup London #6
Two talks to help developers learn more about using Contentful
Contentful Certification Workshop [November edition]
Get your Contentful Certification. Join our one-day event, packed with workshops, practice sessions, and only a few, short presentations. Learn about the practices with Contentful from our Solution Engineers and exchange knowledge with other Contentful users.
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Pulling Contentful data using VueJS and Nuxt.JS
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