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Oct 8, 2025 | Tags: database, db, episerver, index, indexes, jobs, maintenance, optimizely, performance, scheduled jobs

Quiet Performance Wins: Scheduled Job for SQL Index Maintenance in Optimizely

As Optimizely CMS projects grow, it’s not uncommon to introduce custom tables—whether for integrations, caching, or specialized business logic. But with great schema comes great responsibility: SQL Server indexes and statistics need love too.

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Sep 4, 2025 | Tags: episerver, jobs, maintenance, optimizely, scheduled jobs

How to automatically remove orphaned Opti jobs from the DB

Optimizely CMS provides a simple yet powerful built-in job system that handles most standard scheduling scenarios with ease. Developers can easily implement these jobs to run automatically on a defined schedule or trigger them manually through the CMS interface. From my experience as an Optimizely/Episerver developer, manual jobs are especially useful for one-off operations or bulk content updates. Typically, these jobs serve a temporary purpose and are removed from the codebase in subsequent releases once they’ve fulfilled their role.

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Jun 12, 2025 | Tags: application insights, dxp, episerver, optimizely

Tunning Application Insights telemetry filtering in Optimizely

Application Insights is a cloud-based service designed to monitor web applications, providing insights into performance, errors, and user behavior, which integrates very well with the Optimizely CMS/Commerce solution and is included in the default DXP experience. However, like any generic tool for complex systems, it can be tuned to work even better for specific platforms and projects.

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May 26, 2025 | Tags: apple silicon, arm, episerver, m1, ms sql server, optimizely, sql server

Running full Optimizely development setup on M1 (ARM) based machine

A few years ago I posted post about how to run Optimizely/Episerver on M1 (ARM) based machine, so I think it is high time to revisit and check what did change.

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Jul 31, 2024 | Tags: background jobs, episerver, hangfire, jobs, optimizely

Adding Hangfire to Episerver/Optimizely CMS 12

Episerver/Optimizely contains build ScheduledJobs support which does its job for internal EPI jobs and simple custom cases, however, when the app grows and we need more and more jobs it fails behind dedicated solutions.

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  • May 26, 2025: Running full Optimizely development setup on M1 (ARM) based machine
  • July 31, 2024: Adding Hangfire to Episerver/Optimizely CMS 12
  • August 15, 2023: Add SonarCloud/SonarQube to Episerver/Optimizely 12 project using Github actions
  • July 30, 2022: Add Github pipelines/workflows to Episerver 12 project
  • July 28, 2022: Episerver Foundation on Apple Silicon (M1)!

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