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Sep 18, 2025

Reengineering Product Discovery With AI, Vector Search, And LLMs

Introduction Every day, millions of digital shoppers type perfectly valid questions into search bars and are met with confusion. They ask for help with "dry skin" and get a list of arbitrary lotions. They want to compare two popular brands and are served a product grid with no context. Behind this failure is an outdated assumption: that keywords are the language of intent.

Sep 17, 2025

How Design Governance Restores Brand Impact Without Delays

Introduction In digital experience projects, the biggest surprises don’t always come from code. They come from what stakeholders see.

Sep 16, 2025

Axelerant Joins the Confluent Partner Network to Drive Real-Time Data Innovation

Real-time data is reshaping the way businesses operate. From powering customer experiences to streamlining mission-critical systems, organizations need the ability to process and act on information instantly. At the core of this transformation is Apache Kafka®, the leading platform for event streaming.

Sep 15, 2025

How Axelerant Is Building A Smart Talent Allocation System with AI And LLMs

Introduction At most organizations, matching internal talent to project needs is a high-stakes process handled with surprisingly low-tech tools. Despite the abundance of employee data, resumes, skills inventories, and availability trackers, staffing still relies on a patchwork of systems: spreadsheets, static resumes, self-reported skill matrices, and availability trackers that don't talk to each other. Managers scramble to find the right talent, chasing down updates from HR tools, scanning Slack threads, and guessing whether someone is actually free or a good fit. This is not a minor inefficiency; it’s a structural bottleneck hiding in plain sight.

Sep 12, 2025

How Reusable Component Architecture Powered A Faster, Smarter Drupal Migration For A Global Event Brand

Introduction In large digital organizations, migrations are rarely just technical. They’re political. Strategic. And frequently, urgent.

Sep 10, 2025

How To Build A Scalable Package Management Framework

Introduction If you’ve built anything serious with Site Studio, you’ve probably hit this wall:

Sep 8, 2025

Choosing Between Reuse And Rebuild For Tight DXP Delivery Timelines

Introduction You're weeks away from launch. The platform isn't ready. And every event stakeholder wants their brand experience to feel completely unique.

Sep 5, 2025

How AI Helps Refactor A Monolithic Site Studio Setup

Introduction Organizations are under increasing pressure to deliver scalable digital experiences without compromising speed or stability. The complexity of platforms is rising, and with it, the cost of inefficiencies hidden deep in legacy configurations. Yet, hidden within these technical constraints lies an opportunity: how can AI be strategically leveraged not as a curiosity, but as a performance multiplier?

Sep 3, 2025

Engineering Background Capture On iOS & Android

Introduction Share to Save is a common pattern in mobile products. In many implementations, tapping Share launches the host app, may prompt for authentication, and interrupts the task the user was performing. The result is higher latency, dropped saves, and avoidable support issues.

Sep 2, 2025

Bridging APIs And Drupal: Turning External Data Into Structured Content Experiences

Introduction On the surface, migrating content into Drupal looks straightforward: pull the data from an external API, map the fields, and display it on the site. But as every executive leading a digital transformation project eventually discovers, data doesn’t travel cleanly.