Author Archives: John West

This blog post is part of the SaaS Headless Content Delivery Architectures Series (SHCDAS). Update 14.Dec.2025: After years of frustration with WordPress, I am finally abandoning this blog. The content will likely stay here for some time, but new content will appear here: SaaS headless Content Management Solutions (CMS) expose the following primary extension points: SaaS headlessContinue reading “-SHCDAS: SaaS Headless CMS Integrations and Extensions”

This blog post is part of the SaaS Headless Content Delivery Architectures Series (SHCDAS). Update 14.Dec.2025: After years of frustration with WordPress, I am finally abandoning this blog. The content will likely stay here for some time, but new content will appear here: Headless CMS vendors do not provide content delivery toolsets. Headless CMS products focus onContinue reading “-SHCDAS: Headless Content Delivery”

This blog post is part of the SaaS Headless Content Delivery Architectures Series (SHCDAS). Update 14.Dec.2025: After years of frustration with WordPress, I am finally abandoning this blog. The content will likely stay here for some time, but new content will appear here: A web server can respond to an HTTPS request with a static resource, suchContinue reading “-SHCDAS: CMS Deployment and Page Request Cycles”

This blog post is part of the SaaS Headless Content Delivery Architectures Series (SHCDAS). Update 14.Dec.2025: After years of frustration with WordPress, I am finally abandoning this blog. The content will likely stay here for some time, but new content will appear here: A web server can respond to an HTTPS request with a static resource, suchContinue reading “-SHCDAS: Static and Dynamic Content Delivery”

This blog post is part of the SaaS Headless Content Delivery Architectures Series (SHCDAS). Update 14.Dec.2025: After years of frustration with WordPress, I am finally abandoning this blog. The content will likely stay here for some time, but new content will appear here: The term headless differentiates CMS vendors that include toolsets for content delivery, sometimes calledContinue reading “-SHCDAS: Headless CMS, Advantages and Disadvantages”

This blog post is part of the SaaS Headless Content Delivery Architectures Series (SHCDAS). Update 14.Dec.2025: After years of frustration with WordPress, I am finally abandoning this blog. The content will likely stay here for some time, but new content will appear here: Content Management systems separate content from presentation and logic to allow non-technical CMSContinue reading “-SHCDAS: Content Management and Content Delivery”

This blog post is part of the SaaS Headless Content Delivery Architectures Series. Update 14.Dec.2025: After years of frustration with WordPress, I am finally abandoning this blog. The content will likely stay here for some time, but new content will appear here: To oversimplify a bit, consider the Internet as only clients that use webContinue reading “-SHCDAS: Web Browsers, Web Servers, and Application Servers”

The move to headless content management systems (CMS) is part of a necessary paradigm shift towards web applications composed from multiple SaaS providers using MACH architectures (Microservice-implemented, API-first, cloud-native, headless). SaaS and headless provide support agile development environments by allowing composition of applications from services using appropriate technologies and hosting platforms at each layer ofContinue reading “-SHCDAS: SaaS Headless Content Delivery Architectures Blog Post Series Index”

This blog post describes implications and considerations for running ASP.NET in a “serverless” environment. Update 14.Dec.2025: After years of frustration with WordPress, I am finally abandoning this blog. The content will likely stay here for some time, but new content will appear here: First, I believe that the term serverless is misleading. Without a server,Continue reading “-Implications and Considerations for Serverless ASP.NET”

Last week (18.Jan.2021) I conducted a webinar hosted by my friends at Konabos Consulting about Jamstack and alternative architectures for headless CMS with ASP.NET. I talked about the headless CMS metaphor and terminology and getting webhooks through firewalls before conducting a short technical demonstration of a proof of concept using the Contentstack SaaS headless CMSContinue reading “-Jamstack and Alternative Architectures for Headless CMS with ASP.NET Core”