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.
After primarily working with SDL Tridion for the past 5 years (along with Contentful) and prior to that Umbraco. I have recently started working with Episerver, and I wanted to give my initial thoughts on it.
After starting the training/certification I noticed some really nice features such as the code first approach and InitializableModule.
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.
Enhance your Optimizely CMS personalisation by integrating Cloudflare's geolocation headers. Learn how my Cloudflare Geo-location Criteria package simplifies visitor group targeting.
Explore why C# developers should embrace Node.js especially with Optimizely's SaaS CMS on the horizon. Understand the shift towards agile web development and how mastering Node.js can open up new opportunities in the evolving digital landscape.
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.
Contentful does have some basic search functionality, but it is quite limited and quite difficult to implement (at least in .net). So leveraging Contentful webhooks I decided to index the data into Azure Cognitive Search service.
