Andy Thompson Luminary

For a few years now, Kentico Software has had two flagship products. Their cloud-based Content as a Service offering got the full rebrand in 2019, and now it's their all-in-one DXP's turn. It's time to say goodbye to Kentico EMS, and hello to Xperience by Kentico.

Kentico 9 was officially released to the public on Tuesday 24 November 2015, at the annual Kentico Connection conference in Kentico's home town of Brno, Czech Republic. I was lucky enough to be at the conference, including the official launch party!

There's been a huge buzz around this release, especially among solution partners such as Get Started, as it represents a huge leap forward for the platform. In addition to a slew of tweaks, improvements and optimisations, Kentico has really stepped up its game with some modern enterprise-level features such as class-leading Continuous Integration (CI) tools, ASP.NET MVC development support, and brand new Integrated Campaign Management which allows marketers to harness the huge volume of data behind Kentico EMS.

I recently published a post on Kentico Website Speed Optimisation Basics, which goes through a range of simple and effective ways to get your Kentico website purring.

This post focuses on one specific, more advanced performance optimisation technique: implementing a Content Delivery Network (CDN). I go into detail on how to selectively apply a special type of “origin pull” CDN in order to get the performance benefits of a traditional CDN, while still retaining all the advantages of the highly dynamic and flexible Kentico platform.