At Adobe, I work on the engineering team responsible for building Adobe Experience Platform Web SDK. This SDK supersedes some legacy libraries that Adobe provided customers to implement on their websites. One of the primary goals of the new SDK was to make it faster than the legacy libraries. Once…

My earliest memory of a computer was watching a series of circles appear on an old computer screen, falling in line one by one to form a crooked smiley face. I was fascinated. By pushing some buttons, my brother, sisters, and I could bend the behavior of this device to…

Have extra money you’d like to invest? Congratulations! You’re on the first step to securing your financial future. Now that you’ve decided to invest, it’s time to decide which type of investment account to put your money into. If you have sufficient money to invest, you may need to choose…

I originally wrote this on November 5, 2015, when our daughter Brinley was six years old. I shared it on Facebook and am now sharing it with the rest of the world. Brinley is now ten years old. Most everything described below still applies; she’s just older and bigger now…

In a prior article, I wrote about how the Adobe Experience Platform Launch team ❤️ open source. We strongly believe that open source matters to the community for three reasons: transparency, ease of implementation, and continuous improvement. In an effort to continue our open sourcing efforts, we’re happy to announce…

Let’s get this out of the way: Much has been written about why a full software rewrite is a bad idea. I largely agree with the sentiment. It typically is a bad idea. It brings with it high risk and a high rate of failure. You should spend a meaningful…

This post is the fourth in a four-part series: An HTTP Caching Strategy for Static Assets: The Problem An HTTP Caching Strategy for Static Assets: Generating Static Assets An HTTP Caching Strategy for Static Assets: Configuring the Server An HTTP Caching Strategy for Static Assets: Testing the Implementation For this…

This post is the third in a four-part series: An HTTP Caching Strategy for Static Assets: The Problem An HTTP Caching Strategy for Static Assets: Generating Static Assets An HTTP Caching Strategy for Static Assets: Configuring the Server Now that we’re generating files according to plan, we need to start…

This post is the second in a four-part series: An HTTP Caching Strategy for Static Assets: The Problem An HTTP Caching Strategy for Static Assets: Generating Static Assets In Adobe Experience Platform Launch, the absence of a caching strategy is a bad caching strategy. We want most of our files…