Modern digital platforms rarely operate in isolation. Whether you're aggregating service providers, products, or user-generated content, chances are your application depends on external APIs to stay current. In this post, we'll walk through a practical pattern: using a Next.js application to consume an API of active providers and automatically create corresponding items in Sitecore XM Cloud.

Scaling 1,000+ Item Syncs to Sitecore XM Cloud with p-limit in Next.js
posted on: Thursday, June 4, 2026

Modern web apps - especially those built with Next.js - often need to sync large datasets from external APIs into a CMS like Sitecore XM Cloud. The challenge? Doing it fast enough to be useful, but safely enough to avoid throttling, timeouts, or partial failures.

Building a reusable Hero Banner Component in Sitecore AI using Next.js and GraphQL
posted on: Monday, July 6, 2026

One of the advantages of Sitecore AI is its headless architecture, where content is completely separated from presentation. By combining Next.js, the Sitecore Content SDK, and GraphQL Rendering Contents Resolver, we can build highly reusable and editor-friendly components.