Here's a brief overview of the new Alfresco Transform Service that is being introduced as an option for Alfresco Content Services (ACS) 6.1. It also includes evolutionary changes to the ACS Repository. For those that missed DevCon 2019 you can also refer to following slides Transforming Transformers.

The new Alfresco Content Services 6.0 is released, and I am happy to share the highlights of this version with you. The major focus of the new Alfresco Content Services 6.0 release was on significant architecture improvements and the new containerized deployment option based on Docker and Kubernetes Read more...

A while ago, Alfresco decided to replace the Ghostscript engine in our products. It has been used as a rasteriser to transform PDF files to PNG images within Alfresco Content Services (ACS). The main cause was due to Ghostscript’s change to an AGPL license, which caused some concerns among our custo Read more...

At the end of my last post I alluded to an improved ingestion pipeline using Step Functions, this post looks at how we can use the recently announced AWS service Comprehend to analyse text files.The updated architecture is shown below (click to enlarge).The Lambda function that fetches the content s Read more...

In my last post we looked at a potential out-of-process extension that analysed images using AWS Rekognition. The solution used a single large Lambda function, in this post we're going to examine an improved approach using Step Functions.The architecture is shown below (click to enlarge). The use ca Read more...