Overview
What Adobe Edge Delivery Services (EDS) is, how the products fit together, and how it compares to traditional AEM Publish.
Architecture
How content flows from authoring through the Content Bus and Delivery Pipeline to the CDN, including URL tiers and push-invalidation.
Authoring models
Document-based authoring (Word/Docs) vs Universal Editor authoring on AEM. How they compare and how to choose.
Blocks (the component model)
How blocks work in EDS -- the decoration lifecycle, content keys and rows, variations, options, the block library, and common authoring patterns.
Customizing
How to extend EDS at the project level -- scripts.js, aem.js decoration overrides, head.html, fonts, paths.yaml, response headers, and shared plugins.
Universal Editor
Wiring EDS blocks into the Universal Editor with component-definition.json, component-models.json, component-filters.json, and data-aue-* instrumentation.
Development workflow
Project bootstrap, project structure, aem-cli, fstab.yaml, paths.yaml, and the GitHub-first deployment flow.
Sidekick & Sidekick Library
The Sidekick browser extension for authors, and the Sidekick Library plugin model that lets you ship custom block-library tools.
Admin API (helix5)
Full reference for the helix5 Admin API at admin.hlx.page -- authentication, endpoint groups (status, preview, live, code, index, cache, log, profile, sitemap, snapshot, job), webhooks, and common workflows with curl and JS examples.
Experimentation
Built-in A/B and multivariate testing, audiences, and edge-side resolution -- no third-party tool required.
Performance
How EDS achieves Lighthouse 100 -- LCP optimisation, three-phase loading, and the automatic optimisations the runtime performs.
Forms
EDS for Forms -- Adaptive Forms blocks, document-based form authoring, submission handling, and integration patterns.
Commerce Storefront
EDS Commerce Storefront -- catalog, PLP, PDP, cart, and checkout blocks running on top of Adobe Commerce or third-party backends.
Best practices, hybrid AEM, pitfalls
Hybrid routing patterns mixing EDS with traditional AEM Publish, common pitfalls and fixes, licensing, and external resources.