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Stefan Holm Olsen

Stefan Holm Olsen

 Alias: Stefan Holm Olsen
 Company: Stefan Olsen
 Location: Bulgaria
 Blog: My little corner
 Twitter: @StefanHolmOlsen
 About me: I am OMVP and Freelance Optimizely Consultant. I write about technical concepts and ideas at https://stefanolsen.com

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My key take-aways from Opticon 2023
Syndicated blog - Posted on: Oct 13, 2023

This past week I spent 4 days with Optimizely at Opticon 2023 in San Diego, and got to hear a lot of inspiring announcements and ideas. Here are my...

Send Optimizely notifications with SendGrid API, not SMTP
Syndicated blog - Posted on: Sep 06, 2023

If your Optimizely site already sends transaction emails through an email platform API, why not do the same with Optimizely notification emails?

Remember to configure your complementary SendGrid account in Optimizely DXP!
Syndicated blog - Posted on: Aug 15, 2023

For all those who have websites in Optimizely DXP, consider improving email deliverability with SendGrid. There is a bonus tip at the end…

Correlate telemetry for scheduled jobs in Optimizely CMS
Syndicated blog - Posted on: Aug 07, 2023

Earlier I showed how to integrate Hangfire jobs with Application Insights, to correlate all job logging. Now you can do the same with regular...

Catalog roots can finally be customized in Optimizely Commerce!
Syndicated blog - Posted on: Jul 26, 2023

Optimizely Commerce 14.13.0 removed a road block for customizing product catalog roots. Read here about how to use it.

Telemetry correlation for Scheduled Jobs in Optimizely
Syndicated blog - Posted on: Mar 23, 2023

I previously demonstrated how to correlate telemetry to Azure Application Insights within a Hangfire job. But how about those jobs that are built a...

4 tips and tricks for Hangfire on Optimizely CMS
Syndicated blog - Posted on: Mar 21, 2023

Here are four useful tricks I always apply to any site where I use Hangfire (code included).

Performance tip: Use good old ContextCache for request-scoped caching
Syndicated blog - Posted on: Mar 04, 2023

There is a less-known hidden gem in Optimizely CMS for brief request-scoped caching. Read about which it is and how simple it is to use.

Redis PubSub for Optimizely CMS 12 event messaging!
Syndicated blog - Posted on: Mar 02, 2023

I made a new Redis PubSub event provider for Optimizely, for use with load-balanced servers that cannot use my .NET sockets event provider. Read...

Performance tip: Disable sticky sessions in Optimizely DXP
Syndicated blog - Posted on: Feb 24, 2023

If you are working with Optimizely DXP sites, take a few minutes to consider whether you really need sticky sessions. Here is how to disable them a...