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Running the Optimizely CMS 13 Alloy Site on macOS with Docker
In my first Apple Silicon post and the 2025 revisit I covered running an Optimizely Foundation site on an M1/ARM Mac. This time I wanted to try something smaller — the official Alloy template site for Optimizely CMS 13, which ships with a ready-made Docker Compose setup. On Windows it works out of the box, but on macOS with Apple Silicon a few adjustments are needed before everything runs smoothly.
Read more ...OptiPowerTools.Hangfire: A Drop-in Hangfire Integration for Optimizely CMS 12
Back in 2024, I wrote a post on Adding Hangfire to Episerver/Optimizely CMS 12, walking through each step of integrating Hangfire into an Optimizely project — the authorization filter, the controller, the view with an iframe, the menu provider, the startup wiring. It was a fair amount of boilerplate, but it worked and people found it useful.
Read more ...Catalog Traversal with Hangfire. Part 3: Advanced Job Management
In Part 1, I showed how to build a memory-efficient catalog traversal service, and in Part 2, I demonstrated practical patterns using Optimizely’s built-in scheduled jobs.
Read more ...Catalog Traversal in Action. Part 2: Real-World Scheduled Job Patterns
In my previous post, I showed how to build a memory-efficient catalog traversal service for Optimizely Commerce. The service uses streaming to process large catalogs without loading everything into memory at once.
Read more ...Memory-Efficient Catalog Traversal in Optimizely Commerce. Part 1: Building the Service
If you’ve worked with Optimizely Commerce for any length of time, you’ve probably faced this scenario: you need to process an entire product catalog in a scheduled job. Maybe you’re syncing to an external PIM system, exporting data for analytics, or performing bulk updates. The straightforward approach of loading all products into memory works fine for small catalogs, but once you hit thousands of products, things start to get uncomfortable.
Read more ...Recent posts
- February 24, 2026: Catalog Traversal in Action. Part 2: Real-World Scheduled Job Patterns
- February 18, 2026: Memory-Efficient Catalog Traversal in Optimizely Commerce. Part 1: Building the Service
- October 08, 2025: Quiet Performance Wins: Scheduled Job for SQL Index Maintenance in Optimizely
- September 04, 2025: How to automatically remove orphaned Opti jobs from the DB
- June 12, 2025: Tunning Application Insights telemetry filtering in Optimizely
- 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)!