Kontent Rocks Podcast: Recent Episodes
Brian McKeiver
Kontent Rocks is a show about all things Kontent by Kentico, .NET, and Azure, hosted by Brian McKeiver. Each episode we talk about tips, tricks, and best practices when using Kontent, and the latest and greatest .NET and Azure features. As a Kontent MVP, my goal is spread general Kontent and .NET knowledge and expertise to with the global development community.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, after a little break between the action, Brian McKeiver continues his interview with Nabil Orfali, CEO and Founder of Kajoo.ai. Nabil dives right into a full demo of the new integration between Kajoo.ai and Kontent.ai.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver interviews Nabil Orfali, CEO and Founder of Kajoo.ai. The two delve into how Kajoo.ai plans to revolutionize advancements in digital experience building. In this first portion of the interview, Nabil introduces himself, talks about why Kajoo.ai started, and offers an overview on how Kajoo.ai can be used to rapidly build digital experiences.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, we're diving behind the scenes of the Kontent.ai rebrand with none other than Vojtech Boril, the Global VP of Marketing at Kontent.ai. Join Brian and Vojtech, as they explore the intricate journey that resulted in a new brand for Kontent.ai. They'll discuss the whirlwind initial rebrand completed in just five weeks, leading up to the comprehensive rebrand undertaken last fall amidst multiple changes and market shifts. Vojtech and Brian unpack the tight timeframe, share real-life examples of challenges during the rebranding like color choices, and emphasize the importance of content modeling in transitioning to a headless CMS.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver interviews Andrew Kumar, Global VP at Uniform. Brian and Andrew discuss how Uniform has updated its platform over the past months and how Uniform now sees itself in the market. Brian asks Andrew to answer how Kontent.ai and Uniform can function together so well, even though some features may overlap. Listen on to find out how these two platforms can elevate digital experiences.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver interviews Rob Kristie, Director of web development and strategy at Machintel. They discuss Rob's transition from traditional monolithic web development to headless CMS architecture and development. They discuss the advantages of using Kontent.ai for building and managing websites. Rob shares insights into the challenges and learning curves involved in adopting headless CMS, the benefits of component-driven development, and the improvements in site performance and security.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver interviews Martin Michalik, VP of Product at Kontent.ai. We dive deep into the future of Artificial Intelligence in content management. Our conversation explores the cutting-edge integration of AI into Kontent.ai's platform, spotlighting how these advancements are revolutionizing content creation and management. Martin brings unique insights into how AI enhances user experiences, streamlines workflows, and propels innovation in the CMS industry. This discussion is a must-listen for those interested in the evolving dynamics of AI in content management, offering a glimpse into Kontent.ai's strategic approach and vision for transcending basic generative AI capabilities.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver interviews Mark Ruddock, the new CEO of Kontent.ai. Brian and Mark discuss Mark's background, his journey to become the new CEO of Kontent.ai, and his vision for Kontent.ai's product growth. They cover how Mark sees the headless market and how the AI story is coming into shape for Kontent.ai. Mark reveals a few new features that are coming soon as well.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver is joined by Matt Nield, Kontent.ai MVP and consultant. Brian and Matt walk through what Environments, Collections, and Spaces are in Kontent.ai. They discuss why you would want to use them and recap their real world experience with using these parts of the Kontent.ai Headless CMS solution.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver is joined by Wes McChristian, Global Kentico Practice Director at Americaneagle.com. Wes and Brian discuss their experience with working with marketing teams on approaches they can take with content governance within their CMS platforms. The two discuss the pros and cons of leveraging either a content workflow process or environment syncing strategy to create and publish content. Listen on to find out which approach for content governance may work the best for you.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver is back with Andy Thompson, CTO and Kontent.ai MVP at Luminary. This time the duo discuss the state of frontend frameworks for building websites with Headless CMS in 2023. With so many possibilities out there including Next.js, React, Gatsby, Vue, etc. the choices are not obvious. Andy and Brian discuss their agency's preferences for using frontend frameworks today, plus they give their predictions for what will be the leading frontend framework at the end of the year.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver interviews Cruce Sanders and Alaa Alweish from Schematica.io. The trio discuss a new Figma plugin that Schematica is behind. The plugin, named RealContent, acts as a bridge between content and design. It fully integrates Kontent.ai's Headless CMS platform into Figma. Listen on to hear how RealContent works, the reason why it began, and check out the live demo.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver interviews Akshay Sura, Partner and fellow Kontent.ai MVP at Konabos. Brian and Akshay discuss a brand new community that Akshay is behind, the Digital Experience Community. Listen on to hear about a brand new group that is open for all to join.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver interviews Michael Andrews, Content Strategy Evangelist at Kontent.ai. Brian and Michael discuss the ever popular topic of content migration. The duo compare how content migration in a digital project is like moving houses in real life. Listen on to see how they turn the analogy into lessons learned and tips and tricks for how to best handle migrated content into a Headless CMS like Kontent.ai.
In this episode of Kontent Rocks, Brian McKeiver talks about his experience at Kontent Horizons 2022 in New York. Brian also recaps his own session and demos a very cool custom element for Kontent that uses AI to generate images based on text via the OpenAI API.
In this episode of Kontent Rocks, Brian McKeiver talks with the entire global Kontent.ai MVP community all in the same room. The group was able to record the episode while participating in the MVP Summit, an annual event where the Kontent.ai team and MVPs meet in person for a week of intense learning and knowledge sharing. Listen to the episode to hear the behind the scenes scoop on the Summit.
In this episode of Kontent Rocks, Brian McKeiver talks with the entire global Kontent.ai MVP community all in the same room. The group was able to record the episode while participating in the MVP Summit, an annual event where the Kontent.ai team and MVPs meet in person for a week of intense learning and knowledge sharing. Listen to the episode to hear the behind the scenes scoop on the Summit.
In this episode of Kontent Rocks, Brian McKeiver talks with the entire global Kontent.ai MVP community all in the same room. The group was able to record the episode while participating in the MVP Summit, an annual event where the Kontent.ai team and MVPs meet in person for a week of intense learning and knowledge sharing. Listen to the episode to hear the behind the scenes scoop on the Summit.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver interviews Mike Webb, Senior Developer at BizStream. Brian and Mike demo a very cool tool for developing Custom Elements for Kontent.ai. The open source tool makes localhost development and testing for Custom Elements a breeze.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver interviews Mike Webb, Senior Developer at BizStream. Brian and Mike demo a very cool tool for developing Custom Elements for Kontent.ai. The open source tool makes localhost development and testing for Custom Elements a breeze.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver interviews Bart Omlo, CEO of Kontent.ai. Brian and Bart discuss the big news that has happened at Kontent.ai and deep dive into Bart's vision for the next 100 days that capitalize on this news. In the conversation Bart reveals the company's strategy for accelerated growth, why this is such an exciting time for Kontent.ai, his upcoming road trips, a new office location, and the first mention of Kontent Horizons (Kontent.ai's annual conference).
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver brings back Bryan Soltis, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft. Brian and Bryan talk about Azure Logic Apps and how they can be useful in various situations including projects with Kontent.ai.
In this episode of Kontent Rocks, Brian McKeiver talks about Azure Static Web Apps and how they can be made dynamic. Brian shows that when you add in the power of Headless CMS, namely Kontent by Kentico, this type of Azure resource is perfect for Jamstack based sites.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver brings back Andy Thompson, CTO and Kontent MVP at Luminary. Brian and Andy answer the question of is CSR, or Client Side Rendering, on a JAMStack site good for SEO. The two discuss some challenges with the common answer of, "Sure Google can execute JavaScript on a client side app". They then express their opinions and experience as to why just because Google can execute JavaScript, that doesn't just mean you will have good SEO.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver is joined by Rosta Striz, Technology Partner Manager and Product Management Integrations Lead at Kontent. Rosta and Brian review what Integration options there are for customizing and integrating other systems and functionality. They cover the 3 or 4 most common ways to handle integrations with Kontent by Kentico. This episode is highly recommended if you are new to Kontent.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver is once again joined by Ondrej Polesny, Developer Evangelist at Kontent. Brian and Ondrej walk through what workflows are in Kontent, why you would want to use them, and demo a real world example of an advanced workflow that integrates with Netlify functions to perform some automation that saves time for all of Kontent MVPs and Ondrej.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver is once again joined by Tim Benniks, Principal Developer Advocate at Uniform. Brian and Tim quickly discuss the why you should take a Personalization first approach on your projects and how Uniform does Personalization in a unique way. Tim then demos how Kontent by Kentico can easily be integrated with Uniform to create a personalized experience on your jamstack site.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver talks with Andy Thompson, CTO and Kontent MVP at Luminary. Brian and Andy answer a multitude of questions around what a Composable DXP is, how it is different than a Monolithic or Unified DXP, how one could be used in combination with Kontent by Kentico, and are Composable DXPs the future?
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver talks with Tim Benniks, Principal Developer Advocate at Uniform. Brian and Tim quickly discuss the concept of a Composable DXP and how it can integrate multiple headless APIs into one powerful result. Tim then demos how Kontent by Kentico can easily be integrated with Uniform.
In this episode of the Kontent Rocks podcast, Brian McKeiver is joined by Pavel Kordik and Gabriela Takacova of Recombee. Brian, Pavel, and Gabriela discuss why automated recommendations and ultimately content personalization can help organizations save time and increase site metrics and conversions. The trio then demos how Kontent by Kentico can easily be integrated with Recombee's recommendation engine.
In this episode of Kontent Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined by Brad and Jon of Slatwall Commerce. The three experts join forces to show off an integration between Kontent and Slatwall commerce that showcases how headless content and commerce can work together.
In the inaugural episode of Kontent Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined by Vojtech Boril, VP Growth & Marketing at Kontent by Kentico. Brian and Vojtech join forces to discuss Kontent Horizons, a virtual event coming in November 2021.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined by fellow Kentico Xperience MVP Mike Wills, Director of Development at BlueModus. The two MVPs discuss how enterprise organizations can best integrate Kentico Xperience into an organization's existing microservice based architecture.
Mike walks Brian through how on a recent project he helped an enterprise organization integrate its existing e-commerce site with Kentico Xperience to solve a gap that organization had with content management and marketing friendly content editing. As a bonus to that organization, this was actually done in a Headless fashion with Xperience.
Brian and Mike then talk about how this technique can be utilized to stay within a microservice architecture yet still leverage Xperience as a digital experience platform. All and all it is a great example of how large enterprises can adopt Kentico Xperience as a part of their stack.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined once again by fellow Kontent MVP Andy Thompson. Andy and Brian discuss the trends that they are both seeing with enterprise organizations moving away from Traditional CMS and to Headless CMS and how Kentico Kontent is ready to serve the enterprise market.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver is joined by fellow Kentico Kontent MVP Andy Thompson. Andy and Brian discuss the newly released Web Spotlight feature for Kontent.
According to Andy, Web Spotlight addresses the elephant in the room when it comes to utilizing a Headless CMS, which is, how can we expect our content teams to develop a website without a head to look at it with?
Check out the latest episode of Kentico Rocks to find out what developers need to know about implementing Web Spotlight, how to implement it in a .Net Core MVC project, and how it possibly changes your content model requirements.
Brian and Andy both agree that ultimately, when implemented correctly, Web Spotlight by Kontent can take your Headless CMS site editing experience to the next level.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Adam Amran, Product Designer at Kentico Kontent, joins host Brian McKeiver. They talk about Adam's experience with creating a GatsbyJS site backed by the Kentico Kontent Headless CMS as a new programmer. Adam and Brian go into the story of how Adam needed to create a new website for a side project he was working on, Untools.co. Being a Designer by trade, Adam wasn’t quite sure where to start as he only had basic programming knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. After forming the new idea for the project, creating his content model in Kontent, and settling on GatsbyJS as the right solution, the new site came together quickly and is now blazing fast. Listen to the episode to find out what pitfalls happened along the way, and why Adam us now very happy with the result.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, our host Brian McKeiver is joined by Sean Wright of Kentico MVP of WiredVeiews. Brian and Sean discuss the recently released beta 3 of Kentico Xperience, the digital experience platform offering from Kentico. They get into how the newest release will allow for full support of .Net Core, the most modern released version of .Net. Sean and Brian also talk about what this technology shift means for MVC 5 or WebForms developers who are not yet well versed in .Net Core. Listen to the episode to gain some tips and insights on why .Net Core is different, and how to get started in Kentico and .Net Core if you are still in the portal engine of MVC 5 world.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver discusses what's new in the .Net world post Microsoft Build 2020. He covers a bit about the Build announcements and how to watch them if you missed it, briefly dives into the new Azure Static Web Apps service from Azure, and ends up highlighting what's new in the Kentico Kontent Delivery SDK for .Net developers. Existing .Net developers who utilize Kentico Kontent do not want to miss this episode.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver talks about Kentico Kontent's API capabilities. The goal is to talk about a lesser publicized Kontent API, the Management API. Brian discusses why you might want to use the Management API for importing content, reviews how to call the Management API v1 from the .Net SDK that Kontent provides, and demo's a real world Blazor app that upserts content items through the Management API v2.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver interviews Ondrej Polesny, Kentico Kontent, developer evangelist, and Michal Vanzura, lead QA engineer on Kentico EMS. Brian, Ondrej, and Michal discuss the value of unit testing for software developers, what's the difference between unit testing, integration testing, and functional testing, and review a few options for performing JavaScript based testing with Jest and Cypress.io.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver interviews Ryan Overton Kentico Kontent developer evangelist. Brian and Ryan cover quickly how JAMStack is continuing to gain steam, but spend more time discussing the question of can JAMStack do other things beside just static websites. Brian than demos a GatsbyJS implementation connected to Kentico Kontent that Team BizStream has been working on that is multi-channel.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver interviews Sean G. Wright of Wired Views in the Akron, OH. Brian asks Sean how we got started with Kentico EMS, why he got started blogging about Kentico, and where does he see the future of Kentico going. They also talk about the recent release of beta 2 for Kentico 2020 and some new Kentico resources on Github.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver interviews Dmitry Bastron of the Delete Agency in the London, UK. Brian asks Dmitry how we got started with Kentico EMS, what are the best parts of the platform in Dmitry's opinion, and why he got started blogging about Kentico.
In this episode of Kentico Rocks, Brian McKeiver walks through how to enable Hot Reloading of your .Net Core MVC site that is based on the fantastic Kentico Kontent MVC Boilerplate. The good news is the Boilerplate and Hot Reloading concept are updated for .Net Core 3.0 and ready for primetime. A big shout out to Rick Strahl, as his .Net Core middleware package is what makes this all possible.
In this episode our host Brian McKeiver is joined by Michael Kinkaid, CTO of Reason One and Kentico MVP. Brian and Michael recap what just happened in Denver at Kentico Connection 2019. They cover day 1 and day 2 highlights and wrap up with the most important takeaways of the event. Spoiler alert: It was a pretty amazing event as always.
Kyle Mathews, Founder/CEO of Gatsby JS, and Ilesh Mistry, Kentico Architect at MMT Digital, join Brian McKeiver to talk about how Gatsby JS and Kentico Kontent are a match made in heaven for developers looking to build blazing fast sites.
A Special episode of Kentico Rocks. Almost all of the Kentico MVPs gathered in one place at Kentico's headquarters. During the episode you can hear about what the MVP Summit is and what it takes to be an MVP for Kentico. We also get into Kentico EMS 12.0 Service Pack 1 details, new Custom Elements and the new Editorial Calendar in Kentico Cloud, and great resources in Github for Kentico developers out there.
With special guest Jeroen Furst! Brian and Jeroen discuss common Microsoft Azure services that make Kentico EMS work well in Azure.
In this episode Brian McKeiver introduces the DotNet Core CLI as a fantastic tool for creating Kentico and Kentico Cloud projects as well as shows off how to best leverage MS Azure App Services for deploying your Kentico Cloud projects.
What's going on in the Kentico community and a special update from one of the co-hosts. 3/12/19
What's new in the Kentico Development Community. Listen to Bryan and Brian discuss the new KInspector tool, the recent Kentico DevNet competition, and more. Recorded on 09/29/15.
In this episode Brian and Bryan respond to being awarded Kentico MVP status again in 2014. They also talk about what it means to be a Kentico MVP. Recorded 2/12/14.