Category: Architecture
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Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – Classic XP with Simple Personalization
In this part of the migration series, I am going to look at migrating an existing Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) solution that has been built as a classic Sitecore MVC implementation with simple personalization implemented. The scenario breakdown: Follow the series to look at different Sitecore XM and XP scenarios and…
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Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – XP Marketing Automation
In this part of the migration series, I am going to look at migrating an existing Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) solution that has implemented marketing automation, including email marketing. The scenario breakdown: Follow the series to look at different Sitecore XM and XP scenarios and how you can gradually migrate your Sitecore…
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Azure Functions – Access has been blocked by CORS policy
It all started by trying to over-engineer things with an Azure Function. And then it wouldn’t work! This blog post is mostly for me so that I can find this stuff later when I inevitably hit the same CORS issue. I had gone through the whole Microsoft tutorial for JavaScript…
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Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – XP Global Brand scenario
In this part of the migration series, I am going to look at migrating an existing Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) “Global Brand” solution, with many sites and deep personalization usage, over to Sitecore XM Cloud and Sitecore Personalize. The scenario breakdown: Follow the series to look at different Sitecore XM and…
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Sitecore Architect’s Guide to SaaS Migration – XM Jamstack scenario
In this part of the migration series, I am going to look at migrating an existing Sitecore XM “Jamstack” solution over to XM Cloud. Follow the series to look at different Sitecore XM and XP scenarios and how you can gradually migrate your Sitecore platform solution over to a composable DXP…
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Should we host Sitecore on IaaS or PaaS? (Jan 2020)
This started as a question on the community forums, and my answer got so long I decided to capture it here as well. In general, when you are choosing an infrastructure model the first question you need to ask is what your team is comfortable having responsibility over, and what…
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Preparing your CMS infrastructure for traffic spikes
We’re living in the days of “going viral.” Consumers move faster than ever, and businesses need to be ready to respond to sudden demand the moment it arrives—or risk losing out to competitors. The right endorsement from the right person can generate global exposure and cause unprecedented numbers of people…
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Sitecore 9 xDB Sharding
Have you ever wondered what is going on with those new Shard databases in Sitecore 9? This is the new xDB! The new Shard Manager stores data based on the contact ID. A contact ID is a GUID identifier that is unique for each contact. It looks something like this:…
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Scaling Sitecore 9.0 XP Services
The blog here has been a little quiet lately as I have started moving to creating content on the corporate site. I wanted to share something I worked on and has been posted on the Community blogs. Here you go: Scaling Sitecore xConnect and XP Services architecture In the linked blog…
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SSL for multi-tenant Sitecore installations
From the dawn of HTTPS-time, admins have struggled with setting up multiple SSL certificates on a single server. At the same time, we have Sitecore’s licensing model which really drives the business to get the most value out of fewer Sitecore instances. This leads teams to encounter multi-tenant installations that also require…
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Tenth day of Christmas… Ten WTFs!
On the tenth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Ten WTFs, Nine giphy’s dancing, Eight Scrums a-scaling, Seven most-heard retrospective comments, Six Keystone config tips, Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. For years, I’ve…
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Sitecore xDB infrastructure planning
Over the last while my colleague Amanda and I have been collecting information to guide people through the upgrade to Sitecore 8 and plan for the new xDB. There are a lot of scenarios to consider and new scaling options available to you. Provided below are the collection of resources…
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WCF and CORS: “No ‘Access-Control-Allow-Origin’ header is present on the requested resource”
If you are building an Angular app (or other form of HTML5 web application) you are probably running controllers on JSON data to bind to repeaters and present to your users. In many examples, this is usually set up with static data, or a local file, but inevitably you will…
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Baby Steps to SOA: A retrospective on the blog series
One of the key needs in lean, scrum, and other agile processes is for continuous improvement. We constantly review how we do things to do them better. The most common method of doing this is the retrospective. After 5 months of writing the Baby Steps to SOA series, I decided…
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Baby Steps to SOA – Step Ten: Riding the ESB
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and the IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. In this final stage, the team moves to using an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to handle the inter-application communication. This step allows for an increased…
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Baby Steps to SOA – Step Nine: Moving beyond the website
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and the IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. Up next is expanding the use of the new services layers to their other applications within the business. While focus is usually given to…
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Baby Steps to SOA – Step Eight: Sharing the Business Tier
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and the IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. Up next is the centralization and sharing of the business layer to allow all applications to use a single source for business logic.…
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Baby Steps to SOA – Step Seven: Centralizing eCommerce
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and the IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. Previously, we introduced the problem and the team, started planning and analysis, decided on some metrics, and refactored the website applications. Most recently, the team has tackled…
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Baby Steps to SOA – Step Six: Data Services
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and the IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. Previously, we introduced the problem and the team, started planning and analysis, decided on some metrics, and refactored the website applications. Most recently, the team has tackled…
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Baby Steps to SOA – Step Five: The Move to a CMS
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and the IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. Previously, we introduced the problem and the team, started planning and analysis, decided on some metrics, and refactored the website applications. Most recently, the team has tackled…
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Baby Steps to SoA – Step Four: Single Sign-On
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and his IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. Previously, we introduced the problem and the team, started planning and analysis, decided on some metrics, refactored the website applications, and now we continue on our…
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Baby Steps to SoA – Step Three: Three Tiers for the Website
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and his IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. Previously, we introduced the problem and the team, started planning and analysis, decided on some metrics, and now we continue on our travel through the…
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Baby Steps to SOA – Step Two: Measure It
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and his IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. Previously, we introduced the problem and the team, started planning and analysis, and now we continue on our travel through the road map with measuring…
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Baby Steps to SOA – Step One: Analyze and Plan
In the continuing Baby Steps to SOA series, we follow Doug and his IT team behind BuyMyWidget.com as they take steps to renovate their digital asset architecture. Previously, we introduced the problem and the team, and now we start on our travel through the road map.
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Baby Steps to SOA – An Introduction
Around five years ago, I remember a lot of folks started getting into the hype around Service-Oriented Architecture. “This is the way of the future!” you would hear, or “All of our problems will be solved by moving to SaaS or SOA!” Take a moment now and consider your own…
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