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Within corporations there are attempts at innovation that move processes within the plane below. The hope is that every change will increase speed to market without affecting risk. However, in reality, for a process of adequate maturity, almost all changes will move along the line pictured below. Typically a negative symptom of this is a loop of process changes that repeats infinitely and goes something like this: Firm is at point A - medium risk and medium speed to market Firm finds a reason to consider this speed to market to be too slow (perhaps smaller more risk tolerant competitors are observed) Firm moves to point B via an “innovative new process”.

I wrote a new blog post that outlines a number of techniques for decompiling and debugging AEM source code. You can [find it on my company’s engineering blog]https://web.archive.org/web/20230609044544/https://engineering.icf.com/decompiling-and-debugging-aem/)! Update 2025-04-08: It looks like the old ICF Engineering blog finally fell off the face of the internet. I’ve linked to the web archive version for now. I may repost the content here at some point in the future. I also noticed at least one website that has wholesale stolen the content word for word with no attribution, which is super frustrating.

I wrote a new blog post that outlines an a binch of little things AEM customizers can do to make their AEM instances shine. You can find it on my company’s engineering blog!