Azure
As a pseudo developer (with impostor syndrome 50% of the time) I am over it! - By that I mean configuration - hours of of messing around in config files, searching, replacing (seriously guys JSON is for machines), SIF and SIFLess are fun, but I think all this is headed for automation.It doesn't mean developers will disappear, (though sometimes the marketing department wishes they would) but I believe we will become accustomed to telling a machine how to do our job a lot more than we do now.
With all that in mind, I spun up a quick instance of Sitecore on an Azure portal, everything just worked and it took 52 minutes. I'm completely sold on how easy it was and hope to never do it any other way.
Just to balance that, here's the costs for a day and a half with minimal usage.
The Poutineers
Sitecore List & Contact Knowledge Share - Slacks
Kiwis and Canadians have a natural affinity I feel, so it was a delight to be considered by Chris Williams. My fellow Marmite Muncher Ryan Bailey was also onboard.
Now I have to say, our concept is a good one, really good. Privacy advocates might shrink back while marketing types shriek with delight, but I love the idea of preemptively building anonymous Contacts from likely channels using machine learning to sift for targeted profiles.
One could then do some cool strategies to identify and connect these Contacts and bingo! Instant in-depth profile!!
It's a big idea and Chris was sensible to contain it to a simple demo where we displayed a list of articles based on the keywords and IDs extracted from a single slack channel.
Even so were still firing stuff up minutes before the cut-off and it's pretty raw, but exciting.
The real fun bit will be wiring up the ML and pulling in cognitive services. Want to know how my site knows you like kittens? Well you sure have posted a lot of pictures of them all over the net :-) This would work even better with identified contacts, rainbow unicorn dragon kittens.
Thank you Chris and Ryan you letting me participate, a very cool idea came out it so I feel like we've already won.
I also learnt Surface Books can overheat doing video rendering, mmm toasty.
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