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Bridging monolith and composable with automation, with Director of Engineering Keith Mazanec
Bridging monolith and composable with automation, with Director of Engineering Keith Mazanec
Timestamps:
1:05 The volume of content at Brad's Deals, and what that means for content editors
1:56 Why Brad's Deals looked for a new content management technology
2:27 An example of how automations helped reduce manual data entry for content editors
3:57 The custom dashboard Brad's Deals built for their editors
5:06 Example of automating a categorizing function to speed up content publishing process
6:03 Versioning and automating making changes to the content model
8:16 How Brad's Deals created continuity between their legacy technology and the new headless CMS
9:57 Automating throughout the content lifecycle across different content & marketing applications
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