Obtaining Zero Downtime Deployments using Azure PaaS for Sitecore is achievable, even with a Multisite configuration, but requires some steps to avoid 500 errors and other aspects that may place your Azure Application Service Sitecore instances into rotation before they are ready. This article assumes you: How a Swap is Supposed to Work When swapping …
Azure Local Cache is a great feature for keeping your Sitecore pages served in the case that the underlying Sitecore PaaS instance is down. Having said that, here a few tips to manage the Azure Local Cache. Please reference the following for more details: Local cache – Azure App Service | Microsoft Learn Don’t Use …
Azure App Service Plans allow you to define multiple deployment slots in order to stage a Sitecore site prior to go-live. This powerful feature allows you to swap in your site once it is warmed up… and my personal favorite, set a dedicated Web database per slot so I can smoke test and warm up …
Azure is an incredible “platform of choice” for the Sitecore application. You can scale, use PaaS resources like Redis, Azure SQL, and more. With this power though, comes cost, and running a cost effective Sitecore environment in Azure takes some work. This article dives into varying items to consider in order to maximize your power …
Azure Autoscale is a great feature of Azure and a reason many choose to use this platform… however, there is a key limitation that affects many Sitecore PaaS environments. The issue is that Azure puts new Application Service instances into rotation without knowing if your Sitecore application is actually ready to receive traffic/is warmed up! …
As I developed www.thepersonalfinancecenter.com with the joy of using AngularJS coupled with an Azure Mobile Services backend, the struggle was not with implementing a voting feature for social authority or providing identity management (thanks to Auth0), but rather how to ensure that AdSense would render properly and the site could be SEO compliant. Let’s address …
Charlotte’s SharePoint Saturday was buzzing with the new technologies surrounding SharePoint 2013, but continued to demonstrate the core challenges when implementing solutions on this platform. With strong regional and some national representation from the speakers, the daylong event offered insights ranging from development techniques to full Cloud based implementations. Within “the Cloud” domain, sessions discussed …