Sitecore Symposium 2016 - Developer Keynote

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#Sitecore Symposium 2016 Developer Keynote

• Adoption of Popular Tools and Frameworks: standard Microsoft dependency injection
• Standardization: API: how to use them, when to use them
• Micro-Services
• Better Tools and APIs for Integration
• Easier Upgrades
• Open Source Ecosystem

Repositories

• Content Delivery/Authoring
• xDB
• Commerce
• Users

Data - Sitecore Services Client

• Sitecore Services
• XConnect
• Commerce

Process - Data Exchange Framework - individual mappings between source to destination

Integration & Connectors

• Mobile SDK
• Xamarin
• Power BI
• CRM Connectors
• Microsoft Dyanmics

Coming in Sitecore 8.3:

• OData as a standard.
• Simplifying APIs
• Rest based APIs

Micro-services Foundation

Built on ASP.NET Core

• Commerce Applications => Commerce Plugins
• Content Applications => Content Plugins
• Commerce Foundation => Content Foundation

Express Migration Tools -

NuGet - introduced a new feed

https://sitecore.myget.org/gallery/sc-packages

For 8.2 to 7

Open Source:

• Sitecore Rocks - https://github.com/JakobChristensen/Sitecore.Rocks
• Pathfinder - https://github.com/JakobChristensen/Sitecore.Pathfinder
• Habitat - https://github.com/Sitecore/Habitat
• SIM (Sitecore Instance Manager) - https://github.com/Sitecore/Sitecore-Instance-Manager

Sitecore Helix - helix.sitecore.net

Tools

Scaled Agile Framework:

• Strategic Themes - 6 to 12 month cadence
• Portfolio Backlog Creation - Continuous
• Portfolio Backlog Prioritization - Monthly
• Program Backlog - 10 weeks (avg) cadence

Tools used to facilate

• Uservoice
• ProdPad
• VS TFS with a combination of github

In a few months, they will be rolling out to the developer community with uservoice to submit ideas.

Community:

• community.sitecore.net
• Slack
• Twitter
• User Groups

For this year's symposium, there were 180 Call for Papers submitted.