December 1st, 2020
 

AGENDA (EST/EDT)

• 12:00PM – 12:10 PM (Intro + Drops)
• 12:10PM – 12:55 PM (Structured Logging in Sitecore - by Himadri Chakrabarti)
• 12:55PM – 01:40 PM (Sitecore IoT Hub – Digital/Physical Marketing in a Low Touch Economy - by Rodrigo Peplau)
• 01:40PM – 02:25 PM (Solr as service, Improved Relevance, and Analytics Dashboards: Let's Talk About SearchStax - by Hugo Santos)

LOCATION

Virtual Meeting. Zoom link will be shared with the attendees.

CONTACT

• Rodrigo Peplau
• rpeplau@nishtechinc.com
• +55 (48) 99153-3301 (voice and whatsapp)

SESSION 1 - Structured Logging in Sitecore (45 mins)

Structured Logging is currently logging best practice in software development. As the name suggests, Structure Logging in contrary to Text Logging has many advantages. The concept, Structured Logging came from the need that it is very hard to find needle in haystack. It is very hard to slice and dice logging data in Text Logging to narrow down the log data to troubleshoot issues. Text Logging is based on messages with no restriction, where asStructured Logging is based on Key/Value pairs. Asp.Net Core team made Structured Logging a part of Asp.Net Core framework.

Like many Software built with Text Logging Sitecore is also one of them. Sitecore used most popular logging framework at the time, which is Log4Net. It is Text Logging. Anyone worked is Sitecore has experienced the difficulty of drilling through huge amount log data. Can we convert Sitecore Text Logging to Structured Logging? If we can, then we will significantly improve our ability to troubleshoot Sitecore issues with the help of better logging structure and better tooling.

In this presentation, Himadri will first talk about Structured Logging and then provide a demo to show, how Sitecore logging can be converted to Structured

Logging.

About the Speaker: Six-time Sitecore MVP, Himadri Chakrabarti (@himadric) is an active Sitecore community member and love to share his knowledge with community members. He works in Cincinnati based Sitecore partner Nish Tech Inc.. You can find him on twitter @himadric

SESSION 2 - Sitecore IoT Hub – Digital/Physical Marketing in a Low Touch Economy (45 mins)

As a leading Digital Experience Platform, Sitecore offers multiple features for all kinds of marketing actions and campaigns. Traditionally, they mostly happen on-line, with a few off-line interactions if any.

Sitecore IoT Hub comes to bridge the significant gap between Sitecore and the off-line world, providing a framework for easily link Sitecore with IoT Devices. With this new open-source module, markets can build personalized real world experiences for their customers, and react to their physical interactions, with little to none code required.

This session reveals how Sitecore IoT Hub connects devices and wearables with the platform, which supercharged by Sitecore’s personalization and AI capabilities, will create exciting new hybrid Digital-Physical use cases for events, workspaces and shopping experiences, driving more meaningful and personalized interactions than ever before.

About the Speaker: Rodrigo Peplau (@Rpeplau) is a Sitecore Solution Architect at Nish Tech, Inc. who works with Sitecore since 2010. Due to community initiatives such as the co-foundation of the Sitecore Usergroup Brazil (SUG-BR), multiple Sitecore modules and posts, Rodrigo is proudly recognized as a Sitecore Technology MVP since 2016. He is also a 2x Hackathon winner with his team Go Horse. Rodrigo loves to grow Sitecore teams and individuals, with the same dedication and care as he develops precise Sitecore solutions.

SESSION 3 - Solr as service, Improved Relevance, and Analytics Dashboards: Let's Talk About SearchStax (45 mins)

Are you tired of managing all those Solr instances? All those hours spent installing, configuring, and upgrading them could definitely be better used on delivering value to customers. What if I tell you that not only that, but you can also have better relevance with A/B testing, collecting data on how people are using your search page, and identifying content gaps on your content base? All that for a very fair price. It's time to talk about SearchStax for Sitecore.

About the Speaker: Hugo Santos (@hsantos_x) is a Sitecore MVP and Search expert. He has been working with Microsoft technologies for almost a decade and with Sitecore since 2014. He is currently the head of the Search Practice at Konabos, and he also acts as Solution Architect in a few projects.