Elakkuvan Rajamani

Someof the Social media shares on Sitecore

Below are some of the social media activities on Sitecore.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elakkuvanr_sitecoreusergroupfrance-sitecore-sitecorecommunity-activity-7132664532652417026-uKwy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elakkuvanr_my-sugcon-2023-takeaways-activity-7046767329233289216-fZSy?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elakkuvanr_sugcon-prayerstodemogods-activity-7044979923484069888-e32S?utm_source=shar...

Roadmap to hosting Sitecore on Kubernetes

In this presentation, I have had a chance to share about hosting Sitecore on Kubernetes, including a detailed look at key kubernetes terminologies and how to prepare the manifest files for the k8s deployments with a detailed demo on it.

Does the Next.js Rendering Host performance depend on available CPU count of the Kubernetes pod and defining HPA rule

Next.js becomes a widely accepted JAMStack react framework and it also part of Sitecore's headless development suite. Implementing Sitecore Nextjs Rendering Host on Kubernetes entails deploying and managing the infrastructure through the k8s cluster. This blogs explains how the full potential of Next.js can be harnessed by optimizing the CPU limit of the k8s rendering host pods.

Sitecore SCS - Issue with Ser pull

I was trying to use SCS to automate the content movement between environments. However the sitecore ser pull is always giving 'BadGateway error' during the serialization for particular folder. Sitecore has taken this request back to the product team to review the serialization functionality for the possible improvements.

Handling URL Redirects in a Headless Sitecore Multisite solution running in Kubernetes using NGINX

URL redirections are essential for any application to maintain the SEO scores healthy. When it comes to Sitecore Headless, the traditional approaches to handle the redirects would become obsolete. So this blog post explains in detail,how the URL redirection can be handled effectively for Headless Sitecore applications using NGINX as reverse proxy

My SUGCON 2023 Takeaways

I have had a chance to participate this year's SUGCON 2023 at Malaga both as a Speaker and as a Participant. So I have blogged about the wonderful two days and its various thoughtful sessions. Also about my speaking experience.

Lighthouse Vercel Integration Application for XM Cloud

This is an demo Integration Application developed by myself and Ramkumar for our SUGCON presentation on 'Leveraging XM Cloud API's and Webhooks to powerup integrations'.

This application uses Lighthouse to measure the quality of XM Cloud site pages in terms of SEO, Performance and various other factors. This application helps to introduce a Quality Gate for the XM Cloud site pages before it's pushed to live.

Linkedin Posts about Sitecore

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elakkuvanr_an-overall-experience-in-creating-the-vercel-activity-6994315665255890944-AzzD?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/elakkuvanr_vabrhack-valtechabrhackathon-sitecore-activity-6979214862073614336-WeDU?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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SUGFRANCE | XM Cloud and Vercel Integration

The SUGFRANCE event happened in Nov 16th 2022. I have presented a talk on XM Cloud and Vercel Integration application that we have built during the Valtech Internal Hackathon 2022.

Customizing the Sitecore’s Mssql-Init Image to override the default Database Names

This blog explains how to customize the default 'mssql-init' image of Sitecore XM v10.2 to change the default Sitecore Database names.

Component Level Data Fetching using GraphQL in Next Js Applications

This blogs explain in detail about the Component Level Data Fetching method using GraphQL in the NextJs applications.

OrderCloud Catalyst Library’s OrderCloudUserAuthHandler – How to use it and an issue I faced

This blog again related to my previous posts in OrderCloud. This blog explain in debth about the OrderCloud's OrderCloudUserAuth attribute and how to use it in the middleware application to authenticate the user. This blog explains an issue I have faced during the usage of the attribute and how did I resolve that.

.NET Core and Jamstack mix | A recipe for the future

.NET Core and Jamstack mix | A recipe for the future - This topic was presented by me along with Ramkumar in SUGCON EU 2021 happened in Budapest, Hungary.

The talk was about JamStacking with .Net tech stack. So far, The term JamStack are more related to Front enders, our work would opened up a whole new approach of driving Jamstack using .Net stack.

Sitecore Hackathon 2022 | Best addition to the Sitecore MVP Site

This work was done as part of the SitecoreHackathon 2022. I have chosen the topic 'Best Addition to the MVP Site' and it introduces the Sitecore Experience Edge with GraphQL queries to fetch the layout data of the pages.

You can find more info from the repo.

https://github.com/Sitecore-Hackathon/2022-E-Square-V

Creating a Component with Custom Rendering Content Resolver in Sitecore 10 Headless Development

This article explains how to create a rendering in Sitecore 10 Headless development. The explanation is done with an example to create an Author Grid end-to-end and finally the site hosted in Netlify for anyone to refer this.