Marathon but WORTH YOUR TIME. In this episode, we interview Chris Millar, Architect at Adobe responsible for “Document Authoring” (DA) in Edge Delivery Services (formerly known as Project Dark Alley). The discussion explores Chris’s role in developing document-based authoring tools for Adobe’s Edge Delivery platform, the challenges with traditional Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), the origins and evolution of DA as a skunkworks project, its integration with tools like SharePoint and S3, internal adoption at Adobe, success stories (e.g., rapid site launches for large-scale projects like school systems), trade-offs with features like WYSIWYG editors, extensibility, performance focus, and future visions involving […]

Three AEM/Edge Delivery-focused events happened in rapid succession at ‪@AdobeDevelopers‬ Headquarters in San Jose: the Adobe Champions Forum, a first-ever Edge Delivery Masterclass put on by Adobe Consulting, and the ‪@aem-live‬ Developers Live event. 0:00 Introduction and Welcome to Episode 261:02 Overview of the Three Adobe Events at HQ2:08 Adobe Champions Forum Highlights and Swag3:29 Edge Delivery Masterclass Experience5:47 Comparing These Events to Adobe Summit7:21 15th Anniversary of AEM and Key Product Takeaways8:37 The Shift to Dual Engagement (Humans + Agents)10:05 AI Agents, SEO Changes, and Content Reformulation13:22 Agents in Content Production and Delivery17:43 LLM Interactions with Sites and Speed […]

The adaptTo() 2025 conference is in the books! If you’re an AEM / Edge Delivery technologist, product owner or recruiter – what should YOU know is coming down the pike this year to prepare for? Tad Reeves is joined by Kamil Chociej from ‪StreamX and Bartłomiej Gątarski of Dynamic Solutions to discuss our favorite ‪adaptTo() sessions and what they mean to the world of Adobe Developers‬ and ‪Edge Delivery Services.

Principal Architect Tad Reeves was just named as an Adobe AEM Champion for the second time, and shares insights on:

Veteran DevOps Architect Dwayne Hale and AEM Developer Chase Hollander discuss strategies for cloud cost optimization by consolidating onto tools you possibly haven’t considered.

There is almost certainly a problem with your website in China, and it’s affecting over a BILLION potential visitors. Nearly 90% of web architects surveyed have NO IDEA how their websites perform in China, and the results of not understanding the problem could be costing you dearly. 2X Adobe Champion Tad Reeves & StreamX co-founder Marta Cukierman dissect the problem of China web performance, why so many businesses continue to not solve for it, and the effective things you can do about it.

[Note: we’re Framework fans but were not paid in any way for this podcast, we just happen to feel strongly about repairable and upgradeable hardware] As a break from our regularly-scheduled podcasts on Adobe Experience Manager & infrastructure, long-time DevOps nerds Dwayne Hale & Tad Reeves geek out about what makes repairable laptops from Framework such an amazing option for standardizing upon for company gear.

How much do you know about AEM Forms? The entire purpose of SO MANY websites boils down to a successful form experience, and yet all too often it’s only the visual impact of the site that gets all the attention, not the core experience and plumbing that constitutes the business case for the site’s whole existence. This episode dives DEEP into AEM Forms, and what you should know about architecture of a great Forms experience.

This is an episode MANY of you have been waiting for. We’re joined today by Sean Archibeque, software architect and veteran on projects for Adobe working on Edge Delivery Services since its very beginnings, as well as legacy AEM projects. What are the big differences between the way an AEM project (or other legacy-style CMS project like Optimizely, WordPress or Drupal) gets approached, and Edge Delivery? We dive into:

If you missed Adobe Summit 2025, there are some major releases which came out this year which could dramatically affect your marketing technology strategy for the coming year. Let veteran AEM Architects Bryce Acer and Tad Reeves walk you through the biggest releases of the year, what you should use, and what’s not yet ready for primetime.