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AI Innovation Projects - Input & UI

In this post we'll highlight projects using technologies around new ways of inputting data and creating user interfaces, for example: Voice control, natural language processing, VR & AR. This will grow over time as more projects emerge from both Alfr...

DevCon 2018 Retrospective

It has now been a few days since DevCon 2018 wrapped up, and after digesting everything that happened I feel like it is a good time to write down a few thoughts. In short, DevCon was AWESOME! It's no secret that DevCon was always a favorite of our ...

Troubleshooting slow queries - PostgreSQL

One of the recurring issues we see raised by customers are regarding slow SQL queries.Most of the time those are first witnessed within the Share UI page load time or through long running CMIS queries.Pinpointing those queries can be a pain and this ...

Setting Course

Long ago, perhaps 6 or 7 BC (before children, my oldest is 9), I made the adventurous/stupid decision to buy a very used boat off of eBay.The 1986 Bayliner’s previous owner was a duct tape kind of guy: quick fix now, real fix later, (but later never ...

How a Lambda-backed Custom Resource saved the day!

Cloudformation is wonderful. Its a wonderful way of designing your infrastructure with code (JSON, YAML). But it does have its limitations and there is feature disparity between the template DSL and the AWS cli. Considering the work that's gone into ...

Sweeper 1.0

Today I have released a handy little tool called Sweeper!This tool checks your AWS accounts for services that are still running that may be costing your organisation money.A great use case is orphaned elastic load balancers. Without any instances att...

Alfresco Search Services & Analytics Roadmap Update AW2017

I’m the Product Manager for search and analytics at Alfresco and I often get asked about what we’re working on around search and analytics so I thought it was time to log our current thoughts. I’ll try and post regular updates and I would always en...

Team Kickoffs

Hello AgainHi, I’m Ray Gauss. You may remember me from such blog posts as “DAM Standards” and “Metadata… Stuff”.I’ve worked in Engineering on many areas of the Alfresco product portfolio and have fairly recently transitioned to the role of Architect...

Pipe to Pipe - Bamboo to AWS?

Having reliable pipelines to build, test, compile and ship your products are, in my opinion, the backbone of a software organisation. Having good developers is one thing but if you don't have the pipe that gets that product "out there" for the custom...

Welcome to the Platform Community

Welcome to the Alfresco platform community! We're currently offering a platform trial in our section. We would love your feedback, so please review the guides, download and install the platform, and complete the quests!

Alfresco Content Connector for Salesforce - Notes & Attachments migration

OverviewOne of the most critical and time consuming process in relation to the Alfresco Content Connector for Salesforce module is migrating all the existing Notes & Attachments content from Salesforce instance to the On-Premise Alfresco Content Serv...

Server-less Online Trial Control System is live!

Yesterday we, in Alfresco DevOps, successfully released our new control system for the creation, deployment, allocation and management of Alfresco CS (Content Services) Trials.These trials last for two weeks, allowing you the ability to experience AC...

Troubleshooting Alfresco Content Services Performance from the Bottom Up

Troubleshooting application performance can be tricky, especially when the application in question has dependencies on other systems. Alfresco's Content Services (ACS) platform is exactly that type of application. ACS relies on a relational databas...

WCMQS Part I

What is WCMQS ?Alfresco Web Quick Start is a set of website design templates and sample architecture, built on the Alfresco Share content management and collaboration framework.With Quick Start, developers can rapidly build customized and dynamic web...

Online Trial Architecture has been opened!

As of yesterday, we opened up two repositories.Firstly our in-development Online Trial Serverless Architecture. This can be found at GitHub - Alfresco/online-trials-architecture This new system is a replacement of our current deployment method and re...

Alfresco Integrations with Apache Camel

The aim of this blog is to introduce you to Enterprise Integration Patterns and to show you how to create an application to integrate Alfresco with an external application…in this case we will be sending documents on request from Alfresco to Box base...

How to create and use a custom property files in a Process Services

If you need to create a custom property files and you want to use this custom property file in Process Services you can do it using a Java Delegate or a Spring bean.In my case, I used a Java Delegate.First of all, create your custom property file an...

Alfresco FTP load-balancing: what works? what doesn't?

Load balancing a network protocol is something quite common nowadays. There are loads of ways to do that for HTTP for instance, and generally speaking all "single flow" protocols can be load-balanced quite easily. However, some protocols are not as s...

Welcome to the Alfresco Premier Services Blog!

About three years ago, Alfresco created a new branch of our support and services organization, the Premier Services team. Since then, the Premier Services team has grown into a first class global support organization, handling many of Alfresco's lar...

Testing Alfresco One with Docker

Docker is really under the spotlight at the moment so we had a look at it to determine how it could help in our Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline.This article intends to show where we started and what the benefits we are getting from Docker. Our i...