Why AEM v1 Still Matters for Modern Devs

If you're currently digging through the documentation for aem v1 , you're most likely trying to determine out how all of us got to the massive, cloud-based ecosystem we have today. It's funny to consider, but there was a moment when Adobe Experience Manager—or Day CQ as it had been known before the particular buyout—wasn't this sprawling suite of fog up services. In the past, this was a much tighter, though arguably more complex, beast to tame. Looking back in the first major iterations of exactly what we now contact AEM helps place a lot of current features directly into perspective. ...

March 14, 2026 · 7 min · Jadyn Sureli