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Jan 23, 2020
Turning Lambda@Edge into a software platform
In part two of her story about building a multi-region active-active solution for S3, infrastructure engineer Julia Biro talks about the journey of building a resilient, production-ready platform on which 20 lines of code can work wonders.
Jan 21, 2020
How writing URLs correctly could make you famous
For content creators, the humble URL is often an after-thought or not a thought at all. Nail the fundamentals of URL creation, and put them into practice daily to improve your SEO. Get it wrong and pay for it with broken links and crawl errors, resulting in poor SEO and the ongoing and frustrating task of fixing them all.
Jan 20, 2020
Contentful joins Atlassian’s ShipIt hackathon to deliver better editorial and developer experiences
In mid-November, Atlassian welcomed Contentful’s extensibility team to their quarterly hackathon, ShipIt, in their Austin, Texas office. For 24 hours, Atlassian invited everyone — from developers to administrators to illustrators — to collaborate on new projects. Engineers from Contentful and Atlassian assembled two groups with one goal: improve Contentful’s developer and content editor experience. They did just that, learning and eating massive amounts of pizza along the way.
Jan 16, 2020
What digital marketers, writers and editors need to know when going headless: Part 2
Enterprises are jumping from monolithic CMSes to headless CMSes. It’s an exciting change that gives customers new ways to interact with products and services — but the switch can be challenging, especially for digital marketers who need to quickly learn how to use unfamiliar tools. I made this transition myself, and I’m here to help you make friends with your new headless CMS.
Jan 14, 2020
Keep your deployments on track: Contentful now has seamless promotion and rollbacks
DevOps principles make development teams more effective. But when it comes to content model changes, it’s historically been difficult to reconcile these principles with your CMS. Now, with the release of environment aliases, we’ve created a simple way to clone environments, promote an environment to production, and roll back changes.
Jan 13, 2020
Winning organic search with the help of Contentful’s rich text
Organic search helps your organization grow, especially when you're a little cash strapped. If you can’t compete against those in the market paying for ads, you need to appear first underneath them in search results. This guide is a starting point for maximizing the effectiveness of content to win that number-one spot.
Jan 9, 2020
What digital marketers, writers and editors need to know when going headless
From the point of view of digital marketers and content creators, the switch to a headless CMSes can be daunting — new systems to learn and nearly too many new opportunities to explore. I made this transition myself, and I’m here to help you become friends with your new headless CMS.
Jan 7, 2020
Creating greater reliability: CoreDNS-nodecache
Ongoing issues in the Linux kernel's UDP connection tracking have caused well-documented challenges with DNS. Bugs particularly affect DNS in Kubernetes in its default configuration; we saw elevated rates of DNS timeouts that seemed to increase with load on our clusters. A Kubernetes extension called node-local helped alleviate some issues, but presented its own challenges. To solve the remaining problems, we developed a new implementation of node-local as a CoreDNS plugin: coreDNS-nodecache.
Jan 6, 2020
Behind the design system: Forma 36
An interview with the team that developed Contentful's open-source design system, Forma 36.
Dec 30, 2019
Your 2019 Contentful wrap-up, filled with holiday cheer (and a few good puns)
We've had an exciting year, and we didn't want 2019 to end without celebrating the highlights. Here's a very merry holiday card, from our Contentful family to yours.

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