This was 2024

Wow, another year has passed. Time for a recap.

My personal goal for 2024 in this blog was to post more often and more consistently, and I think that I was successful at that. When I counted correctly, it were 20 posts in 2024. The consistency in the intervals could be better (a few just days apart, other multiple weeks), but unlike in some other years I never really felt, that I was lagging way behind. So I am quite happy with it and will try to do the same in 2025.

This year I adopted 2 ideas from other blogs:

• A blog post series, which is planned as such. In January and February I posted 5 posts on Modeling  Performance Tests (starting here). This approach worked quite well, mostly because I spent enough time to write them before I made the first post public. If I know upfront that topics are large enough, I will continue with this type.
• The “top N things …” type of posts. I don’t particular like this type of posting, because very often they just scream for attention and clicks, without adding much value. I used that approach 2 times (The new AEM CS feature in 2024 I love most and My top 3 reasons why page rendering is slow) ; and then mostly to share links to other pages. It can work that way, but that will never be my favorite type of blog post.

The most successful blog post of 2024: As I did not add any page analytics to this page (I would need a cookie banner then), I have only some basic statistics from WordPress. The top 3 requested pages besides the start page in 2024 were:

1. CQ development patterns – Sling ResourceResolver and JCR Sessions (written in 2013)
2. Do not use AEM as proxy for backend calls (of 2024)
3. How to analyze “Authentication support missing” (of 2023)

Interesting that a 10 year old article was requested most often. Also WordPress showed me that LinkedIn was a significant source of traffic, so I probably should continue to announce blog posts there. (If you think I should also do announcements elsewhere, let me know.)

And just today I saw the latest video from Tad Reeves, where he mentioned my article on performance testing in AEM CS. Thank you Tad, I really appreciate your feedback and the recognition!

That’s for 2024! I wish you all a relaxing break and a successful year 2025!