Quite often, debugging Sitecore assemblies becomes very essential for developers, to investigate any exception or unintended behavior happening within Sitecore assemblies (or any Third-party managed code). While there are few options available currently to debug Sitecore assemblies with tools like dotPeek, dnSpy, etc., it would incur some effort to install and configure them to be able to debug.
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Chrome Extension: Simplifies navigation from Website pages(CD) to it’s associated content in Sitecore(CM)
This Extension enables the content authors to open associated content in Sitecore Experience/Content/Horizon Editors(Content Management) straight from Website(Content Delivery) in single-click.
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Launching Published Content Delivery Website URL for Page Items straight from Sitecore Content Editor
An efficient content authoring experience is crucial for the success of any Sitecore Implementation. Accelerating the authoring process by automating possible areas of authoring and publishing workflows, improves the efficiency of content authoring thereby helping content authors realize its exceptional value.
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Automating Sitemap Submissions to Google & Bing using Sitecore Powershell Extensions
Keeping Search Engines apprised of the content updates(additions/modifications/removals) is crucial for businesses to amplify user acquisition and to improve user experience. While Google’s scheduled recrawl may take up to weeks for scanning certain sites again, it is recommended to notify Google of essential content updates early to drive the needed traffic to gain maximum possible value.
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Request Google to crawl URLs on Sitecore Publish using Google Indexing API
Most of the sites hold a bunch of short-lived content like Events, Job Posting. While reaching the intended audience for short-lived content is challenging, removing the expired content from Search Engine is also vital for user engagement. This can be solved by bridging Google Indexing Mechanism with Sitecore Publish Mechanism using Google Indexing API, which empowers businesses to gain maximum value by reaching the right users at the right time.
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In-Sitecore Alerts & Push Notifications: Effectively communicating Maintenance Activities to Authors & Marketers
Building a strong DevContentOps within the organization helps to keep the productivity of all teams at maximum. This module eliminates friction and enables seamless collaboration between Authors, Marketers, Developers, and Operations.
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Design Considerations and Approaches for Scheduling Recurring Tasks/Workflows
Being one of the key initial steps in the automation journey of the implementation, scheduling tasks is not necessarily easy and straightforward. Web applications have plenty of options to achieve this (Eg: Sitecore Scheduler, Windows Task Scheduler, Azure Logic Apps, Container CronJob, Coveo Push API, Hangfire etc.), but each option comes with pros/cons based on the needs/requirements. There are several basic and advanced considerations that needs to be thought before designing recurring scheduled tasks/workflows,
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Achieving End-User Visibility and Traceability for Sitecore Implementation with Azure AppInsights
It is quite common that an application or its integration doesn’t behave uniformly at all circumstances for all users, browsers, devices, regions etc. Most of the Performance issues and End-user exceptions are detected only after it is reported by an end user while it might be too late as it would have affected the user engagement and retention already.
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Accelerating Workflow Process with Sitecore + Microsoft Teams Integration Module
It is highly important to equip Content Authors with required tools/integrations that will help them to accomplish tasks with minimal clicks possible. When it comes to involvement of more than one person (Content Author, Content Approver), there is a high possibility of delays in taking updates live that might be time-sensitive due to expected/unexpected communication delays. 
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