For those who find the cost of software prohibitive, there are sometimes free or open-source alternatives available, though these may not offer the same features or support. Additionally, many software companies offer trial versions, educational licenses, or flexible pricing plans that can make their products more accessible.
One of the crucial components of Sitecore XP’s functionality is xDB (Experience Database), which stores and manages contact and interaction data for use in analytics and personalisation. By default, data is collected and stored for all human interactions and consequently data accumulates over time. It becomes imperative to efficiently manage and clean up stale contact and interaction data to maintain performance and in some cases comply with data privacy regulations.
Sitecore and community repositories as local development setup examples for a while. It’s time to get “older” solutions upgraded! Luckily it’s pretty straight forward. Rob Earlam wrote an excellent post about upgrading the XM-Cloud-Introduction repo on his blog (https://robearlam.com/blog/docker-compose-v2), which will get the job done in most solutions. However, I’ve hit a few additional gotchas with some solutions that hopefully will avoid some googling or politely asking ChatGPT. Not all are specifically docker-compose v2 related, but snags we hit across teams when carrying out the upgrades.