By default Optimizely code does not remove properties from the database when you remove them from the code - This article describes how to remove obsolete Commerce data and introduces the Opti.Addons project.
Charles is a tool that enables to view all HTTP(S) traffic between the current system and the Internet. Here I will show how to setup Charles to catch the localhost traffic with the example of ASP.NET Core and the EPiServer Foundation project.
Optimizely Search & Navigation (a.k.a. EPiServer Find) is a powerful engine but, as being a black box, it might be difficult to diagnose its behavior when things go wrong. This article describes how to make a deep dive into the search engine and get the insights about the underlying query.
Optimizely allows to obtain the ID of the anonymous user (even if the user is logged in). One of the example of the usage is merging cart when the user logs in.
Optimizely invokes its internal validators for the cart processing by default. This article describes how to skip this validation in scenarios where custom validation logic is in place, or we don't want UI to update the cart when viewing it.
Some testing classes may have a dependency to the ServiceLocator, so the dependencies are injected via property, for example. That makes class more difficult to unit test. In this post I will present how to write unit test for a class with dependency to ServiceLocator, with the real world example of Optimizely.