IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
17 articles
22 Mar 2026 · 7 min read
azure
Part 6 of 8 — Building a production-grade CI/CD pipeline for Umbraco 17: GitHub Actions to Azure App Service with zero-downtime slot swaps, Docker Compose for local development, uSync in the pipeline, Azure Blob Storage for media, and environment-specific configuration.
Read more18 Mar 2026 · 8 min read
adr
Part 5 of 8 — How to integrate AI assistants into your Umbraco migration workflow: prompt patterns for Umbraco-specific tasks, using Umbraco 17's built-in Developer MCP, Architectural Decision Records (ADRs) as migration governance, and the AI Champion model for tech teams.
Read more18 Mar 2026 · 9 min read
golive
Part 8 of 8 — The final leg: a layered testing strategy for Umbraco 17 migrations, from unit tests on converted services to content rendering tests, CI-integrated smoke tests, UAT checklists, and the 72-hour go-live runbook that keeps migrations from becoming crises.
Read more14 Mar 2026 · 7 min read
block-list
Part 4 of 8 — Moving past the data migration to the real work: modernizing your Umbraco codebase to .NET 10, rebuilding templates with the current IPublishedContent API, restructuring content types with Block List, and applying Clean Architecture patterns to Umbraco projects.
Read more13 Mar 2026 · 8 min read
agency
Part 7 of 8 — When you're managing 10, 20, or 50 Umbraco sites, individual project economics don't work. The Marketing OS framework: shared NuGet packages, shared document type libraries, AI-accelerated delivery, and how to reduce per-site migration cost by 50–70%.
Read more10 Mar 2026 · 11 min read
block-list
Part 3 of 8 — The step-by-step technical guide to migrating from Umbraco 7, 8, or 13 to Umbraco 17 LTS. Covering uSync Migrations, Nested Content to Block List conversion, Umbraco Deploy migrators, and how AI assists at each step.
Read more06 Mar 2026 · 33 min read
dotnet-maui
Umbraco isn't just for websites. Here's how to use the Content Delivery API to power native mobile apps with React Native, Flutter, or .NET MAUI — with offline support, push notifications, and content syncing.
Read more05 Mar 2026 · 12 min read
architecture
Not every team wants React. Here are five production-ready alternatives for building marketing websites with headless Umbraco 17 — from Astro and Nuxt to SvelteKit, .NET Razor, and even plain HTML.
Read more05 Mar 2026 · 10 min read
ai
Part 2 of 8 — Before you write a single line of migration code, you need to know what you have. How to use AI to audit a legacy Umbraco project, score complexity, estimate effort, and produce the assessment document that drives every decision that follows.
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