Front End as a Service (FEaaS) in a Composable Technology Stack

There are many different types of businesses and products that are a service. You likely have heard of Software as a Service (SaaS) or Platform as a Service (PaaS).

But from the growth of composable and headless architecture, a new As-A-Service has been created - Front End as a Service (FEaaS). Since the front end is decoupled from the back end, this type of service allows developers to focus on the ways people interact with their sites and apps without constraints or blockers from the back end systems.

Joining this episode are Rachael Hibbert and Pierre Martin from Front-Commerce, where they discuss this emerging FEaaS space. They will explain many details on how to use this technology to build, test, and distribute engaging front end experiences faster, better, and cost-effectively.

Join the experts at Cloudinary and Front-Commerce for this engaging MX Matters episode, and learn how to construct your composable technology stack!

Follow Our Hosts and Guests

• Sam Brace
• Maribel Mullins
• Pierre Martin
• Rachael Hibbert

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CEO of Consica.ai Sana Remekie joins Sam and Maribel from Cloudinary in this MX Matters episode! They discuss the concepts and growing opportunities around data and content orchestration, explaining how to manage, analyze and deliver information across different spaces in your organization.

Our hosts and guests also dive into details surrounding headless and composable architecture, explaining some ways to connect disparate systems with APIs for digital experience orchestration.

If your content and data are siloed in legacy backend systems, especially associated with imagery and videos, this will be an MX Matters episode you won't want to miss.

Learn More about Sana and Conscia.ai:

• Conscia.ai's Homepage
• Sana Remekie on LinkedIn

Mentioned Technologies:

• Contentful
• Gatsby Valhalla Content Hub
• Segment

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One of the most important stakeholders in e-commerce is the photo studio management team. They put so much time and attention into producing every single image for display on websites, mobile apps and other purchasing platforms.

To better understand this team's evolving needs, as well as how they should be using digital asset management systems in their workflows, Sam and Maribel from Cloudinary interviewed Daniel Jester – Chief Evangelist for Creative Force. His extensive studio experience at companies like Nordstrom and Amazon, as well as his time mentoring Creative Force’s customers on best practices, brings a wealth of knowledge to this conversation.

If you want to learn how creative production processes can better match today’s e-commerce needs, this is an MX Matters episode you won’t want to miss.

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In this episode of MX Matters, co-founder and Chief Product Officer of inriver Johan Boström sits down with Cloudinary’s Vice President of Technology Partnerships Gary Ballabio. Johan and his team at inriver has a configurable product information management (PIM) solution with integrated digital shelf analytics and integration capabilities, which enables the whole product journey at every touchpoint.

The importance of a PIM system for e-commerce businesses, opportunities with composable architecture, coping with the expanding number of information sources and channels, and utilizing rich media assets like 3D models and high resolution images to enhance product offerings are just a few of the topics Gary and Johan cover in their discussion of overall product information management.

This episode is a great educational resource if you’re interested in e-commerce trends or want to learn more about the technologies that provide an optimum online shopping experience!

Mentioned Technology and Associated Topics

• Cloudinary Image Transformations
• Cloudinary's Partner Program
• Cloudinary Product Gallery
• Cloudinary Upload API
• Content Delivery Networks (CDNs)
• JSON
• inriver
• MACH Alliance
• Salesforce Commerce Cloud
• Salesforce Service Cloud
• Salesforce Revenue Cloud
• SAP

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While headless and composable architecture is the talk of the content industry, an intriguing trend has emerged. Due to its technical nature and need for novel uses of APIs, the transition to headless is frequently an engineering-driven effort. As a result, teams responsible for developing and publishing content—which frequently do not include developers or engineers—might feel left behind and asked to use a new system that seems inaccessible to them.

In this episode of MX Matters, Elad Rosenheim, who is in charge of Stackbit's developer growth efforts, speaks with Sam and Maribel from Cloudinary. Stackbit's visual experience editing platform serves as a layer to give engineering and marketing teams the experiences they both require - development flexibility and a user-friendly publication interface. Elad explains how he and the Stackbit team are tackling this trend, and also delves deeply into a number of crucial subjects related to content authoring and structure.

You won't want to miss this episode if you're thinking about switching to a headless environment, especially for your content-rich blogs, websites, and other key locations!

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Continuing some of the recent discussions on MX Matters about headless architecture and systems, we learn how Thought Industries recently extended their customer education and external training platform to be headless.

Sam and Maribel at Cloudinary sit down with Jack Antico - Technical Program Manager at Thought Industries - to better understand the purpose of learning management systems and the considerations companies should take if they choose to go headless as part of their education and enablement-based plans.

Learn More about Thought Industries

• Company Website
• Developer Portal
• GitHub

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If you're considering a change with how software and technology is managed in your company, particularly with a focus on microservices, APIs and headless systems, this episode of MX Matters is one you won't want to miss.

In Episode 13, Sam and Gary at Cloudinary talk with Tim Benniks, who is the Principal Developer Advocate at Uniform. They dive into concepts surrounding MACH architecture and explain the various benefits, as well as factors to consider, with the infrastructure and solution model.

The discussion also covers details around the MACH Alliance - an organization presents and advocates for an open and best-of-breed enterprise technology ecosystem - and the opportunities it provides for vendors, system integrators and developers alike.

Follow Tim on LinkedIn, Twitter and other platforms: https://links.timbenniks.dev/

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Join Sam Brace and Gary Ballabio from Cloudinary with Miriam Schwab, co-founder and head of Strattic for this MX Matters episode! They discuss details associated with static and headless architecture, particularly when using WordPress as your site's content management system. 

If you are exploring the concepts of decoupled architecture for your website - one of the hottest trends in the web development space today - and trying to decide if it will work for you and your organization, this is a talk you won't want to miss.

Episode Highlights:
00:00 Host and Guest Introductions
01:46 What is Strattic?
02:47 What is Static and Headless Architecture?
04:09 The WordPress Netlify Debate
09:36 Pros and Cons of WordPress as a Headless CMS
14:28 Ability to Use Plugins in a Headless WordPress Environment
16:25 Recommendations for Companies Looking to Go Headless
19:25 Using a Content Delivery Network (CDN)
22:19 Growth Plans for Strattic
26:32 Using API-Based Services in a Headless or Static Environment
29:19 Final Thoughts and Resources

• Learn More about Strattic
• Follow Miriam on LinkedIn
• Sign up for your free Cloudinary account

Margaret Staples, staff developer educator at Twilio, introduces TwilioQuest - a free learning platform that takes developers through gamified adventures. Along with Tessa Mero of Cloudinary’s Developer Relations Team, Margaret elaborates on the platform and its successes, as well as its recent initiatives for extensions from the developer community.

More From Margaret Staples - Guest for MX Matters Episode #11

• Twitter
• GitHub
• LinkedIn

Learn More about TwilioQuest

• Website
• Discord
• Twitter
• Cloudinary blog post about extension partnership
• Twitch
• YouTube

Zoe Liu, who is the founder and President of Visionular, dives into the details of emerging video codecs and formats with Prajanma Singh, Senior Product Marketing Manager for Cloudinary. They discuss codec standards, such as H.266/Versatile Video Coding (VCC), Essential Video Coding (EVC), and Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC), and many details dealing with overall video compression.

Learn More about Cloudinary and Visionular

• Cloudinary
• Visionular

Learn More about Video Delivery, Codec and Standards

• Cloudinary Documentation on Video Transformations
• AV1 Standard Information from Visionular
• Versatile Video Coding (VVC) from the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute
• Presentation on EVC from Jonatan Samuelsson

Follow Prajanma and Zoe

• Prajanma on LinkedIn
• Zoe Liu on LinkedIn

Show music provided by RIOT: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKCo4y0JbV2ZW3W9s3u0WoGjAnFKZlzi1

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