Archive - Corey’s Substack

March 2025

Why Every Sitecore Implementation Needs Distributed Tracing

Thoughts from a software engineer that has spent 10+ years architecting, building, enhancing, and upgrading Sitecore implementations

Mar 31 •

Corey McClelland

What does a great Sitecore implementation look like?

Thoughts from a software engineer that has spent 10+ years architecting, building, enhancing, and upgrading Sitecore implementations

Mar 6 •

Corey McClelland

January 2024

XM Cloud React Components and Fields

When building React components for Sitecore’s new XM Cloud platform it may not be obvious what the underlying types are.

Jan 9, 2024 •

Corey McClelland

December 2023

XM Cloud Renderings - Component GraphQL Query

So you have Sitecore XM Cloud up and running locally and you want to make a new component.

Dec 20, 2023 •

Corey McClelland

October 2019

Reproduction Steps for Challenging Errors

Have you ever run into hard to reproduce errors in a production environment?

Oct 23, 2019 •

Corey McClelland

August 2019

Finding Changed TDS Content Items in Source Control

Have you ever run into a situation where you needed to find all of the changed content items committed to git since the last production deployment?

Aug 8, 2019 •

Corey McClelland

June 2019

Performance Issues with Federated Authentication and Virtual Users in Sitecore

Sitecore's Federated Authentication functionality works great and only needs a small amount of code and configuration to get up and running.

Jun 24, 2019 •

Corey McClelland

May 2019

Sitecore 9: Mongo Migration Tips

Here's a few tips that will help you survive a large mongodb migration into SQL Server.

May 20, 2019 •

Corey McClelland

April 2019

Federated Authentication in Sitecore 9

One of the great new features of Sitecore 9 is the new federated authentication system.

Apr 26, 2019 •

Corey McClelland

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