Bas Lijten
Bas Lijten

I am a software architect, public speaker, Sitecore MVP, husband and dad. Not in that particular order. Always learning. Always Sharing

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Enabling the application map in Application Insights for Sitecore to monitor your Sitecore infrastructure and webclients

In the out of the box configuration for Sitecore on Azure, application insights has been enabled by default. However, this configuration is…

2018, Dec 11  — 2 minute read

How to query xConnect using the tracker ContactID in Sitecore

There are situations where not all custom facets have been loaded into your session, or where you want to explicitly check for updates on a…

2018, Nov 11  — 1 minute read

Increase your (Sitecore) performance by enabling the local cache on Azure App Services

Although this blog focuses primarily on Sitecore, this blogpost is applicable for any application which is hosted on an Windows Azure App…

2018, Oct 29  — 1 minute read

Warmup your application on Azure App service when scaling up and swapping slots using "Application Initialization"

A common problem on Azure web apps when scaling up or swapping slots is "stuttering". At the moment an instance is added to the pool (scale…

2018, Oct 29  — 1 minute read

Warmup your Sitecore on Azure App Service applications when using Slot settings

Using deployment slots in Azure App Services is a best practice to deploy Sitecore your application with zero downtime. However, there are…

2018, Oct 29  — 1 minute read

Speed up your deployments – parallel app service deployments in Azure DevOps

Note: Although this blogpost series is focused towards deploying Sitecore with the speed of light, all the information in this blogpost…

2018, Oct 19  — 5 minute read

Automate your pipeline part 1: World’s fastest delivery pipeline for Sitecore on Azure

On October 9th I presented for the 3rd time at the Sitecore Symposium. In my previous blogpost I described shared how I felt during the…

2018, Oct 16  — 1 minute read

My Sitecore Symposium session - World’s fasted delivery pipeline for Sitecore on Azure

On October 9th I presented for the 3rd time at the Sitecore Symposium. After a security session, our session with Robbie the Robot, I chose…

2018, Oct 15  — 4 minute read

Private Sitecore nuget feeds using VSTS – why we don’t use Sitecore myget and how we work with package management

First of all: hands down to Sitecore when they created the nuget feed a while back: it’s really, really convenient to be able to use a nuget…

2018, Aug 15  — 6 minute read

Federated Authentication in Sitecore - Error: Unsuccessful login with external provider

I faced this error quite a few times now and I always forget what the root cause of this error was. To keep me away from debugging and…

2018, Aug 03  — 2 minute read

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