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Diagnosing a Redis session timeout that only happened in production

A StackExchange.Redis 3 upgrade caused session timeouts that only appeared in production, and the real cause turned out to be .NET ThreadPool starvation rather than the client itself.

by Justin Neville

Production-Grade Umbraco Hosting on Azure: Designing for High-Traffic Marketing Websites

by Kiran Shaji

Bringing Excel export back to Umbraco Forms

A client preferred Excel exports, so I built a small Umbraco Forms package to bring them back using SpreadCheetah.

by Søren Kottal

Writing My First Umbraco Extension: Building ThtaAI

Building my first Umbraco extension: lessons learned creating ThtaAI, from AI-powered property editors to full page generation and publishing.

by David Whalley

Initials.Autolink

Add a keyword, and every old article that mentions it links itself. Initials.AutoLink for Umbraco 17+, and the first open source package from Initials Labs.

by Owain Williams

The ultimate Umbraco site structure, revisited

How I use the Ultimate Site Structure, with a custom URL provider and content finder that keep the frontpage separate from the site root.

by Søren Kottal

Resetting an Umbraco Backoffice Password at the Database Level

by Anuj Tripathi

Meet Engage.AI: an AI copilot built for marketers

Umbraco Engage.AI is in public beta: an AI copilot answering marketer questions about campaigns, segments and A/B tests, straight from your Engage data.

by Corné Hoskam

Umbraco 17 Output Caching

Umbraco 17 on .NET 10 is quick, so we did not need page caching at all. We built it anyway to see what was possible before trying it on a client site. The implementation, the rules for when not to cache, and what it cost.

by Justin Neville

Rebuilding our Umbraco Website

Our own website spent years at the bottom of the list. Last year we rebuilt it on Umbraco 13, moved it to 17, rewrote every page and did the SEO work properly. Here is what we did and what we would do differently.

by Justin Neville

Umbraco CSP Nonces with Output Caching

Cache a page containing a CSP nonce and every later visitor gets a stale nonce that no longer matches their header, so the browser blocks the lot. Most advice says pick one. Here is how to have both.

by Justin Neville

Rebuilding our Umbraco Website - Part 1

Our own website spent years at the bottom of the list. Last year we rebuilt it on Umbraco 13, moved it to 17, rewrote every page and did the SEO work properly. Here is what we did and what we would do differently.

by Justin Neville