Engineering notes

Specific Sitecore and Umbraco problems, the code that solved them, and the part that still does not work. Written by the people who did the work.

13 articles

August 2025: Sitecore 10.4.1 wants an encrypted SQL connection, and a personal blog is where you find out
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August 2025: Sitecore 10.4.1 wants an encrypted SQL connection, and a personal blog is where you find out

Sitecore 10.4.1 requires encrypted SQL for Identity Server and greets upgraders with a login failure. Plus the Marketplace SDK's first wall, Stream on XP, and a month of XM Cloud migration guides.

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July 2025: Sitecore shipped 10.4 Update 1 and the community wrote the upgrade notes
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July 2025: Sitecore shipped 10.4 Update 1 and the community wrote the upgrade notes

The month the community installed 10.4.1 and documented what broke: Identity Server's encrypted SQL requirement, Solr 9.8.1's max-fields limit, plus MCP Server 1.0.0, Stream REST APIs and the Content SDK beta.

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May 2025: Sitecore's AI story was written by everyone except Sitecore
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May 2025: Sitecore's AI story was written by everyone except Sitecore

Fourteen items and not one from Sitecore. Stream documented by decompiling a DLL, an MCP server built by one person, and what SUGCON 2025 left behind.

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March 2025: Sitecore called itself AI-first, and the field spent the month writing retry loops
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March 2025: Sitecore called itself AI-first, and the field spent the month writing retry loops

SUGCON Europe put Stream, the Marketplace SDK and an AI-first message on stage. The same month, practitioners published workarounds for Edge revalidation 429s, Sitecore Send rate limits, thin XM Cloud analytics and manual SSG filtering.

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January 2025: twelve field reports and nothing from the vendor
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January 2025: twelve field reports and nothing from the vendor

A backfilled month, reached through feed archives. Twelve Sitecore posts worth your time, all written by practitioners: Edge webhook timeouts, two 10.4 upgrade logs, Astro on XM Cloud, and two posts called Sitecore Search that mean different things.

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