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Your Optimizely Opal Is Probably Burning Carbon It Doesn't Need To
Four patterns Optimizely practitioners could be getting wrong with Opal agents: inference levels, oversized tool responses, missing output constraints, and no agent response caching.
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When to Choose a Lightweight Mediator
MicroMediator vs MediatR: real benchmark data across dispatch, memory, throughput, and cold start to help you choose the right tool for your workload.
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Streaming Large Datasets with IAsyncEnumerable in MicroMediator
Streaming is not always faster. Learn when IAsyncEnumerable saves memory, when it costs you, and what early exit looks like at 1,000,000 items.
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How CMS Implementations Need to Change for GEO and AEO
Search is changing. AI systems are increasingly the first point of contact between your content and your audience, and they don't behave like traditional search crawlers. If your CMS implementation was built purely with SEO in mind, it probably isn't ready for what's coming.
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Handler Lifetimes in MicroMediator: Why Your Choice Matters
MicroMediator makes handler lifetime explicit. Learn when to use Singleton, Scoped, or Transient and what the real performance difference looks like.
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Introducing MicroMediator: A Lightweight High-Performance Mediator for .NET
A lightweight, high-performance mediator pattern library for .NET. Learn why MicroMediator exists, how it compares, and how it fits cleanly into many projects, including Optimizely CMS builds.
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Looking back at Optimizely in 2025
Explore Optimizely's architectural shift in 2025, which removed coordination cost through a unified execution loop. Learn how agentic Opal AI and integrated data systems drive learning velocity for developers and marketing teams.
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Building Faster Feedback Loops with Opal: Two Hackathon Projects
Two Opal Hackathon projects explored how to bridge data and action. Using the Optimizely.Opal.Tools SDK, we extended Opal with new tools, showing how it acts as an enablement layer for developers and marketers.
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Open Optimizely CMS in a New Tab – Instantly
Speed up your Optimizely CMS workflow with this free Chrome Extension. Instantly open the live view of the page you're editing – no right click, open in new tab, no faff.
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From Agentic Theory to Practicality: Using Optimizely Opal’s Instructions Feature
A practical look at Optimizely Opal’s Instructions feature — from built-in agents to creating and managing custom instruction workflows. Ideal for teams scaling AI-powered content with structure and intent.
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The Fragment Conundrum
Explore the challenges and opportunities of working with Optimizely SaaS, GraphQL fragments, and headless CMS architectures. Learn practical solutions with .NET BFF APIs, GraphQL.NET, and modular content strategies for modern front-end frameworks.
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Leveraging Optimizely’s AI Agents: Embracing the Agentic Future
Discover how Optimizely’s AI Agents leverage agentic AI to autonomously execute complex tasks, enhancing digital workflows and driving innovation for technical leaders.
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