AEM Developer & Architect Training
Go from AEM fundamentals to solution architecture on AEM as a Cloud Service — one complete, hands-on program.
Weekday Track
3 sessions/week, 1 hour each — 8 weeks total
Weekend Track
2 sessions/week, 1 hour each — ~12 weeks total
Overview
A complete, hands-on journey through AEM as a Cloud Service — from your first component to architecture-level decisions on real enterprise projects.
Backed by 10+ years of AEM architecture experience across banking, financial services, and manufacturing, this course covers the same scenarios I’ve handled in production: scalable content models, system integrations, performance tuning, and the trade-off calls that separate a developer from an architect.
You won’t just learn how AEM works — you’ll learn how to build, deploy, and defend it in a real architecture review.
Curriculum
AEM as a Cloud Service Fundamentals
- AEMaaCS architecture overview
- Author vs Publish tiers in the cloud
- CRXDE Lite and repository structure
- Local dev setup with the cloud SDK
Templates & Components (Authoring)
- Editable templates and policies
- Component development with HTL (Sightly)
- Dialogs and authoring dialogs
- Content Fragments and Content Fragment Models
- Experience Fragments
- Headless content delivery with GraphQL
Backend Development
- Sling Models
- OSGi services and configurations
- Workflows and custom workflow steps
Integrations
- Integrating external systems and APIs
- Custom services for third-party integration
Performance & Caching
- Dispatcher configuration for AEM as a Cloud Service
- Caching strategies
- CDN integration
Multi-site & Scalability
- Multi-site manager (MSM) and Launches
- Multi-language content architecture
- Scalable content modeling
Security & Governance
- User/group permission models
- Secure development practices
DevOps & Deployment
- Cloud Manager CI/CD pipelines
- Build/deploy via Maven and Cloud Manager
- Monitoring and incident response
Architecture Decision-Making
- Design patterns and trade-offs
- Real-world architecture case studies
- Certification-style scenario practice