Few months back I managed to get Statamic working with Varnish. Setting up Varnish for Statamic was quite easy and my website performance improved drastically (you can see load and performance testing benchmarks here). One of the biggest challenges was Varnish cache invalidation on content update. Every time, Statamic content was updated I have to invalidate cache manually using curl requests.

SeeWhy ¹ a market leader in real-time behavioural marketing, has recently published an extensive and empirical research on ROI of 1-to-1 email remarketing programs.

After working with Adobe AEM and several other JCR backed content management systems in last few years I have realised that there are a lot of mis-conceptions about Adobe AEM. As matter of fact, brain washing is quite common these days when Adobe AEM is on the table. Sometimes Adobe is on fault, on other occasions rhetoric of competitors, agencies and architects.

A recent report by Forrester Research on digital experience delivery platforms has named Adobe and Hybris as leading strong performers. Adobe was recognised for its web experience management suit which includes content management, digital assets management, targeting and personalisation capabilities.

Vagrant is a perfect choice for virtual development environment . Vagrant was created and maintained by Mitchell Hashimoto. It benefits developers, operations engineer and designers. Vagrant really shines when working in a team of any size - small, medium or large.

Today I want to talk about the performance testing. Automated web application testing is not very rare these days. This includes functional, unit and regression tests at minimum. A good web application delivery approach normally includes a continuous integration setup to run automated tests.

AWS allows tagging of EC2 resources using your own metadata (key-value pair). Tagging of EC2 resources is quite helpful in managing instances, images and organise billing by tag names. An EC2 instance can be tagged by CLI tools, API wrappers or using AWS Console when launching the instance as well as after launching the instance.

Term “marketing middleware” was recently pioneered by marketing technologist and blogger Scott Brinker (at least in context of marketing technology). Search for term “marketing middleware” on web leads to Scott Brinker’s posts on Marketing Technology Landscape Supergraphic and Tag management software as marketing middleware.

A lot have been said and written about growing competition between major marketing cloud vendors and how they are more different than similar. We can include Adobe, Oracle, Salesforce, Google, IBM and may be Microsoft in this game of marketing cloud.

So you got your website up and running using Statamic. For better performance you have enabled, Statamic rendered-HTML caching. Cache-Control header for all static assets Gzip compression at web server level Basically, Statamic rendered-HTML caching stores the entire rendered HTML page and by enabling it you can cut down page-load time by up to 90%~85% on average.

Statamic is a new PHP CMS with relatively small community. This website currently runs on Statamic. When it comes to setup, Statamic documentation provides very brief instructions on how you can install Statamic. Normally installing Statamic is quite easy. This is a quick rundown on how you can install Statamic on Ubuntu with Apache as web server.