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Sylvain Reiter

Sylvain Reiter

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📍 London & Berlin
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Diversify your inputs for better outputs
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Diversify your inputs for better outputs

I was recently invited on The Penguin Latte Podcast with my friend Paul LeCrone where we discussed about the digital space, personal development, sports and family life.

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Sylvain Reiter Apr 13, 2021 • 1 min read
5 steps to plan, design and build an accessible website
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5 steps to plan, design and build an accessible website

You just cannot avoid thinking about accessibility on the web anymore. One in five internet users is affected and it's even becoming a hard requirement now for public sector and private organisations, with legal implications if you fail to provide a compliant digital service to your users.

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Sylvain Reiter Apr 8, 2021 • 2 min read
4 considerations when selecting your next CMS
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4 considerations when selecting your next CMS

Away from the technology, a CMS is a tool that requires close collaboration between different business units. It will need to work for everyone in order for your project to be successful.

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Sylvain Reiter Apr 2, 2021 • 3 min read
The 80/20 rule to deal with technical debt & refactoring
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The 80/20 rule to deal with technical debt & refactoring

Refactoring can be expensive as an isolated exercise but will be a lot cheaper in the long term if you do it continuously. Invest the time in refactoring the source code of your product.

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Sylvain Reiter Mar 25, 2021 • 3 min read
Secure software development to scale your digital product
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Secure software development to scale your digital product

it's important to apply secure software development processes when scaling a digital product or platform. From source code to deployment and cloud hosting security, what can you learn from OWASP, NCSC and ISO27001 guidance?

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Sylvain Reiter Mar 18, 2021 • 3 min read
Drupal in 2021 and Beyond Virtual Roundtable
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Drupal in 2021 and Beyond Virtual Roundtable

With experts from my team at Cyber-Duck and Acquia, we discussed what you can expect from Drupal in 2021 and the years to come.

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Sylvain Reiter Mar 17, 2021 • 1 min read
Stop publishing PDF-only content on your website
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Stop publishing PDF-only content on your website

Gov.uk updated its accessibility guidelines for PDF to continue to make the web more accessible for everyone, re-affirming their commitment to "open standards". So if you have a lot of information in PDF, what can you do?

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Sylvain Reiter Mar 12, 2021 • 3 min read
Don't forget your XML Sitemap
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Don't forget your XML Sitemap

Do you have an XML sitemap on your website? And are you sure it is fully optimised for maximum SEO value and help Search Engine crawlers?

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Sylvain Reiter Mar 5, 2021 • 3 min read
Become the accessibility champion in your next digital project
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Become the accessibility champion in your next digital project

Web accessibility is truly a team effort, but you can become the Accessibility hero in your next digital project! If you stay compliant, it will boost your UX, SEO and brand perception.

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Sylvain Reiter Feb 25, 2021 • 3 min read
Boost your SEO with Schema Markup
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Boost your SEO with Schema Markup

If you're not using Schema Markup microdata, you are missing on a lot of opportunities to be featured on top of the search engine as rich snippets. It's not a secret, but it's vastly under-utilised. Let's fix that today.

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Sylvain Reiter Feb 22, 2021 • 3 min read
How to design your next website cookie notice?
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How to design your next website cookie notice?

Since 2018, everyone who works in digital and target European customers has heard of GDPR.  And browsing the internet has become like a game of whack-a-mole to remove all those cookie notices popping up all the time. But I feel that most businesses just have one "for the sake of

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Sylvain Reiter Feb 12, 2021 • 3 min read
Upgrade your cloud hosting with Multi-AZ
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Upgrade your cloud hosting with Multi-AZ

we look at the benefits of multi availability zones (Multi-AZ) when configure hosting with Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure. For mission-critical web applications and systems, adding resilience with extra redundancy is a worthwhile investment.

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Sylvain Reiter Feb 5, 2021 • 3 min read
3 use cases & 2 warnings before you get into LowCode/NoCode
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3 use cases & 2 warnings before you get into LowCode/NoCode

Let's look at the revolution around the Low-Code and No-Code movement. When should you use LowCode / NoCode and what are the key considerations to remember before you get into it?

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Sylvain Reiter Jan 29, 2021 • 3 min read
Selecting your next eCommerce platform: Open-Source, Enterprise or SaaS?
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Selecting your next eCommerce platform: Open-Source, Enterprise or SaaS?

How can you compare open-source, enterprises and SaaS platforms to power your next eCommerce platform? Let's analyse the features, flexibility and total cost of ownership.

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Sylvain Reiter Jan 20, 2021 • 2 min read
How to pitch your Hackathon prototype [in French]
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How to pitch your Hackathon prototype [in French]

As part of my Design Thinking mentorship role in the Teens in AI French Hackathon in January 2021, I was asked to present to the 7 teams of smart teenagers how to pitch their Hackathon product in front of a (Zoom) jury.

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Sylvain Reiter Jan 16, 2021 • 2 min read
Optimise your eCommerce payment checkout flow
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Optimise your eCommerce payment checkout flow

Hey, welcome to this new edition of Digital Blitz, your quick brief on everything UX, Tech and Compliance. I'm here to help you deliver better experiences for your team and your customers. So if you run your own e-commerce websites, how can you optimise your checkout experience? Optimise your eCommerce

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Sylvain Reiter Jan 14, 2021 • 2 min read
#AI is shaping the world - Who is shaping AI?
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#AI is shaping the world - Who is shaping AI?

I had the honnor of opening up the Teens in AI FR 2021 hackathon with a Design Thinking workshop. I joined them for a 9-day hackathon mentoring young people to learn about Artificial Intelligence and the potential for ethical #AI to change the world for good. The event aims to

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Sylvain Reiter Jan 10, 2021 • 1 min read
Deliver better shopping experiences with Headless Commerce
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Deliver better shopping experiences with Headless Commerce

Headless commerce opens up a world of possibilities to deliver more advanced and customised eCommerce solutions. Discover what are the best use cases for you to consider to pick a headless solution.

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Sylvain Reiter Jan 8, 2021 • 2 min read
What is a headless CMS? When to use it?
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What is a headless CMS? When to use it?

If you have a website with a content management system, what do you do when you want to share the same content on a mobile app, on a dashboard or as an Alexa skill?

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Sylvain Reiter Dec 31, 2020 • 2 min read
Deploy your cloud servers with Infrastructure as Code
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Deploy your cloud servers with Infrastructure as Code

Infrastructure as Code helps automate the deployment of cloud servers and environments using code, the same way you write and deploy software. It really is a no-brainer when you manage multiple products or clients, and there are lots of open technologies to make the most of it!

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Sylvain Reiter Dec 23, 2020 • 2 min read
Keep your systems secure with MFA / 2FA
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Keep your systems secure with MFA / 2FA

Passwords can easily be compromised so you need to enable a secondary layer of protection to remain secure and compliant. Discover how MFA can help!

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Sylvain Reiter Dec 14, 2020 • 2 min read
Performative Speaking - Make your audience remember you
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Performative Speaking - Make your audience remember you

If you want your audience to remember you and your message to stick, sign up to @RobbieCrab's Performative Speaking class.

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Sylvain Reiter Dec 10, 2020 • 1 min read
Embrace DevOps to ship faster and better products
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Embrace DevOps to ship faster and better products

"Deployment celebrations should be about the value of the new features, not joyful relief that nothing went wrong"

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Sylvain Reiter Dec 4, 2020 • 2 min read
Get ready for Google's Core Web Vitals algorithm update
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Get ready for Google's Core Web Vitals algorithm update

We don't speak a lot about search engine optimisation here, but when you'll hear about this latest update to Google's algorithm, it's bringing it closer to home. Google just announced the new parameters that we'll use to rank websites from May, 2021. So I think it's a good time to

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Sylvain Reiter Dec 1, 2020 • 2 min read
Can you give me a price to upgrade my Drupal 7?
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Can you give me a price to upgrade my Drupal 7?

Depending on the size and the complexity of your sites, it could be anything from a few thousand to hundreds of thousands of pounds/dollars. Here's why.

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Sylvain Reiter Nov 27, 2020 • 2 min read

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