In this episode of Kontent Rocks, Brian McKeiver talks about Azure Static Web Apps and how they can be made dynamic. Brian shows that when you add in the power of Headless CMS, namely Kontent by Kentico, this type of Azure resource is perfect for Jamstack based sites.

Kontent Rocks Episode 10

In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver brings back Andy Thompson, CTO and Kontent MVP at Luminary. Brian and Andy answer the question of is CSR, or Client Side Rendering, on a JAMStack site good for SEO. The two discuss some challenges with the common answer of, "Sure Google can execute JavaScript on a client side app". They then express their opinions and experience as to why just because Google can execute JavaScript, that doesn't just mean you will have good SEO.

Kontent Rocks Episode 09

In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver is joined by Rosta Striz, Technology Partner Manager and Product Management Integrations Lead at Kontent. Rosta and Brian review what Integration options there are for customizing and integrating other systems and functionality. They cover the 3 or 4 most common ways to handle integrations with Kontent by Kentico. This episode is highly recommended if you are new to Kontent.

Kontent Rocks Episode 08

In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver is once again joined by Ondrej Polesny, Developer Evangelist at Kontent. Brian and Ondrej walk through what workflows are in Kontent, why you would want to use them, and demo a real world example of an advanced workflow that integrates with Netlify functions to perform some automation that saves time for all of Kontent MVPs and Ondrej.

Kontent Rocks Episode 07

In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver is once again joined by Tim Benniks, Principal Developer Advocate at Uniform. Brian and Tim quickly discuss the why you should take a Personalization first approach on your projects and how Uniform does Personalization in a unique way. Tim then demos how Kontent by Kentico can easily be integrated with Uniform to create a personalized experience on your jamstack site.

Kontent Rocks Episode 06

In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver talks with Andy Thompson, CTO and Kontent MVP at Luminary. Brian and Andy answer a multitude of questions around what a Composable DXP is, how it is different than a Monolithic or Unified DXP, how one could be used in combination with Kontent by Kentico, and are Composable DXPs the future?

Kontent Rocks Episode 05

In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver talks with Tim Benniks, Principal Developer Advocate at Uniform. Brian and Tim quickly discuss the concept of a Composable DXP and how it can integrate multiple headless APIs into one powerful result. Tim then demos how Kontent by Kentico can easily be integrated with Uniform.

Kontent Rocks Episode 04

In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver is joined by Pavel Kordik and Gabriela Takacova of Recombee. Brian, Pavel, and Gabriela discuss why automated recommendations and ultimately content personalization can help organizations save time and increase site metrics and conversions. The trio then demos how Kontent by Kentico can easily be integrated with Recombee's recommendation engine.

Kontent Rocks Episode 03

In this episode of Kontent Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined by Brad and Jon of Slatwall Commerce. The three experts join forces to show off an integration between Kontent and Slatwall commerce that showcases how headless content and commerce can work together.

Kontent Rocks Episode 02

In the inaugural episode of Kontent Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined by Vojtech Boril, VP Growth &amp; Marketing at Kontent by Kentico. Brian and Vojtech join forces to discuss Kontent Horizons, a virtual event coming in November 2021.

Kontent Rocks Episode 01

Kontent Rocks is a show about all things Kontent by Kentico, .NET, and Azure, hosted by Brian McKeiver. Each episode we talk about tips, tricks, and best practices when using Kontent, and the latest and greatest .NET and Azure features. As a  Kontent MVP, my goal is spread general Kontent and .NET knowledge and expertise to with the global development community.

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined by fellow Kentico Xperience MVP Mike Wills, Director of Development at BlueModus. The two MVPs discuss how enterprise organizations can best integrate Kentico Xperience into an organization's existing microservice based architecture.Mike walks Brian through how on a recent project he helped an enterprise organization integrate its existing e-commerce site with Kentico Xperience to solve a gap that organization had with content management and marketing friendly content editing. As a bonus to that organization, this was actually done in a Headless fashion with Xperience. Brian and Mike then talk about how this technique can be utilized to stay within a microservice architecture yet still leverage Xperience as a digital experience platform. All and all it is a great example of how large enterprises can adopt Kentico Xperience as a part of their stack.

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined by fellow Kentico Xperience MVP Mike Wills, Director of Development at BlueModus. The two MVPs discuss how enterprise organizations can best integrate Kentico Xperience into an organization's existing microservice based architecture. Mike walks Brian through how on a recent project he helped an enterprise organization integrate its existing e-commerce site with Kentico Xperience to solve a gap that organization had with content management and marketing friendly content editing. As a bonus to that organization, this was actually done in a Headless fashion with Xperience. Brian and Mike then talk about how this technique can be utilized to stay within a microservice architecture yet still leverage Xperience as a digital experience platform. All and all it is a great example of how large enterprises can adopt Kentico Xperience as a part of their stack.

Kentico Rocks Episode 37

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined once again by fellow Kontent MVP Andy Thompson. Andy and Brian discuss the trends that they are both seeing with enterprise organizations moving away from Traditional CMS and to Headless CMS and how Kentico Kontent is ready to serve the enterprise market.

Kentico Rocks Episode 36

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined by fellow Kentico Kontent MVP Andy Thompson. Andy and Brian discuss the newly released Web Spotlight feature for Kontent.According to Andy, Web Spotlight addresses the elephant in the room when it comes to utilizing a Headless CMS, which is, how can we expect our content teams to develop a website without a head to look at it with? Check out the latest episode of Kentico Rocks to find out what developers need to know about implementing Web Spotlight, how to implement it in a .Net Core MVC project, and how it possibly changes your content model requirements. Brian and Andy both agree that ultimately, when implemented correctly, Web Spotlight by Kontent can take your Headless CMS site editing experience to the next level.

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined by fellow Kentico Kontent MVP Andy Thompson. Andy and Brian discuss the newly released Web Spotlight feature for Kontent. According to Andy, Web Spotlight addresses the elephant in the room when it comes to utilizing a Headless CMS, which is, how can we expect our content teams to develop a website without a head to look at it with? Check out the latest episode of Kentico Rocks to find out what developers need to know about implementing Web Spotlight, how to implement it in a .Net Core MVC project, and how it possibly changes your content model requirements. Brian and Andy both agree that ultimately, when implemented correctly, Web Spotlight by Kontent can take your Headless CMS site editing experience to the next level.

Kentico Rocks Episode 35

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Adam Amran, Product Designer at Kentico Kontent, joins host Brian McKeiver. They talk about Adam's experience with creating a GatsbyJS site backed by the Kentico Kontent Headless CMS as a new programmer. Adam and Brian go into the story of how Adam needed to create a new website for a side project he was working on, Untools.co. Being a Designer by trade, Adam wasn’t quite sure where to start as he only had basic programming knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After forming the new idea for the project, creating his content model in Kontent, and settling on GatsbyJS as the right solution, the new site came together quickly and is now blazing fast.Listen to the episode to find out what pitfalls happened along the way, and why Adam us now very happy with the result.

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Adam Amran, Product Designer at Kentico Kontent, joins host Brian McKeiver. They talk about Adam's experience with creating a GatsbyJS site backed by the Kentico Kontent Headless CMS as a new programmer. Adam and Brian go into the story of how Adam needed to create a new website for a side project he was working on, <a href="http://Untools.co" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Untools.co</a>. Being a Designer by trade, Adam wasn’t quite sure where to start as he only had basic programming knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After forming the new idea for the project, creating his content model in Kontent, and settling on GatsbyJS as the right solution, the new site came together quickly and is now blazing fast. Listen to the episode to find out what pitfalls happened along the way, and why Adam us now very happy with the result.

Kentico Rocks Episode 34

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, our host Brian McKeiver is joined by Sean Wright of Kentico MVP of WiredVeiews. Brian and Sean discuss the recently released beta 3 of Kentico Xperience, the digital experience platform offering from Kentico. They get into how the newest release will allow for full support of .Net Core, the most modern released version of .Net. Sean and Brian also talk about what this technology shift means for MVC 5 or WebForms developers who are not yet well versed in .Net Core. Listen to the episode to gain some tips and insights on why .Net Core is different, and how to get started in Kentico and .Net Core if you are still in the portal engine of MVC 5 world.

Kentico Rocks Episode 33

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver discusses what's new in the .Net world post Microsoft Build 2020. He covers a bit about the Build announcements and how to watch them if you missed it, briefly dives into the new Azure Static Web Apps service from Azure, and ends up highlighting what's new in the Kentico Kontent Delivery SDK for .Net developers. Existing .Net developers who utilize Kentico Kontent do not want to miss this episode.

Kentico Rocks Episode 32

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver talks about Kentico Kontent's API capabilities. The goal is to talk about a lesser publicized Kontent API, the Management API. Brian discusses why you might want to use the Management API for importing content, reviews how to call the Management API v1 from the .Net SDK that Kontent provides, and demo's a real world Blazor app that upserts content items through the Management API v2.

Kentico Rocks Episode 31

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver interviews Ondrej Polesny, Kentico Kontent, developer evangelist, and Michal Vanzura, lead QA engineer on Kentico EMS. Brian, Ondrej, and Michal discuss the value of unit testing for software developers, what's the difference between unit testing, integration testing, and functional testing, and review a few options for performing JavaScript based testing with Jest and Cypress.io.

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver interviews Ondrej Polesny, Kentico Kontent, developer evangelist, and Michal Vanzura, lead QA engineer on Kentico EMS. Brian, Ondrej, and Michal discuss the value of unit testing for software developers, what's the difference between unit testing, integration testing, and functional testing, and review a few options for performing JavaScript based testing with Jest and <a href="http://Cypress.io" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cypress.io</a>.

Kentico Rocks Episode 30

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver interviews Ryan Overton Kentico Kontent developer evangelist. Brian and Ryan cover quickly how JAMStack is continuing to gain steam, but spend more time discussing the question of can JAMStack do other things beside just static websites. Brian than demos a GatsbyJS implementation connected to Kentico Kontent that Team BizStream has been working on that is multi-channel.

Kentico Rocks Episode 29

In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver interviews Sean G. Wright of Wired Views in the Akron, OH. Brian asks Sean how we got started with Kentico EMS, why he got started blogging about Kentico, and where does he see the future of Kentico going. They also talk about the recent release of beta 2 for Kentico 2020 and some new Kentico resources on Github.

Kentico Rocks Episode 28

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