A website that can grow with your business and that can reach global markets is no longer a luxury, it is a must-have. I will show you how to develop a highly scalable Kentico Azure site capable of reaching every corner of the world, give you a quick tour of the Azure portal, guide you through the implementation and configuration of various features in the Kentico architecture, as well as the best practices for developing scalable Kentico sites in Azure.

1. Global domination with Kentico
Jeroen Fürst – Kentico MVP
Lead engineer – TrueLime

2. About me
blogs.jeroenfurst.nl
twitter.com/jeroenfurst
nl.linkedin.com/in/jeroenfurst

3. Before we begin
 Deploying Kentico to Microsoft Azure
http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/deploying-kentico-to-azure-web-apps-part-1-deployment
http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/deploying-kentico-to-azure-web-apps-part-2-running-monitoring
http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/deploying-kentico-to-microsoft-azure-know-your-web-hosting-options
http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/deploying-kentico-to-microsoft-azure-know-your-database-options
http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/technical-webinar-most-common-issues-with-kentico-azure-deployments

4. Today’s plan to take over the world
 Architecture
 Multi-Tenancy
 Session State
 Content Delivery Network
 Web Farms
 Deployment

5. Who remembers this?

6. 15 tips for optimizing your websites performance
 Tip 1: Setup is key, pick your components
carefully!
 Tip 2: Page order counts!
 Tip 3: Minify!
 Tip 4: Resource compression
 Tip 5: Disable the view state (carefully)
 Tip 6: SELECT ##COLUMNS## FROM ???
 Tip 7: Cache me if you can!
 Tip 8: Master of the Universal Viewer
 Tip 9: Find and fix issues using the built-in
debugging options!
 Tip 10: Event log
 Tip 11: Find the right balance
 Tip 12: External services
 Tip 13: Monitor the health and performance of
your websites
 Tip 14: Try to keep up!
 Tip 15: Know the guides!
http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/tips-and-tricks--building-highly-scalable-websites

7. How to rule the world?
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8. Start gathering requirements
 What is the goal of the project?
 What is the expected number of users/ page views during the peak load, what is the expected number of pages
on the website?
 What is the structure of the website and what types of content will be published?
 Which web standards should be followed in terms of accessibility and coding?
 Who is the target web site visitor?
 Which products and technologies will be used?
 What is the content life-cycle? Who is responsible for the content management?
 What languages will be used for the content?
 What is the required availability of the website?
 What is the production environment type?
http://download.kentico.com/Kentico_DeliverNow_Methodology.pdf

9. Architecture ready for the future

10. Azure architecture
Internet
SQL DatabaseWeb App
Redis Cache
Azure Traffic Manager
CDN

11. Azure regions
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/regions

12. Tips and tricks: Architecture
http://www.submarinecablemap.com

13. Gotcha: Geo-replication
 Kentico does not support read-only
SQL databases
 Hosting the SQL Azure database
outside the Azure Region results in
a huge performance degradation

14. Azure architecture (per region)
Internet
SQL DatabaseWeb App
Redis Cache
Azure Traffic Manager
CDN

15. Demo – Architecture

16. Multi-Tenancy
Ability to have multiple sites installed in a single installation of
Kentico
 Multi-site objects and content
 Integration
 Governance
 Search
 Marketing
 Software Maintenance / upgrades

17. Gotcha: Multi-Tenancy
Some of the early Kentico modules don’t work very well with
multi-site objects
How we handled it:
Create custom modules and enforce the use of the SiteID column

18. Example: Multi-Tenancy
 Custom localization module
 Apply hotfix 8.2.39 or newer!

19. Tips and tricks: Multi-Tenancy
 Use global roles and configure required permissions
http://blogs.jeroenfurst.nl/blog/september-2015/working-with-roles-and-permissions
 Create custom modules for non multi-tenant Kentico modules
https://docs.kentico.com/display/K82/Creating+custom+modules

20. Session State
 Single instances  InProc
 Multiple instances (web farms)  Azure Redis Cache
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/cache-faq/#which-azure-cache-offering-is-right-for-me

21. Demo – Session State

22. Tips and tricks: Session State
 Microsoft Azure Redis Cache in Kentico
http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/microsoft-azure-redis-cache-in-kentico
 Typos in Azure Redis Cache access keys can result in headaches
http://blogs.jeroenfurst.nl/blog/july-2015/typos-in-azure-redis-cache-access-keys-can-result

23. Content delivery networks
 Push
Editor uploads files directly to the CDN server
 Origin Pull
CDN fetches data during the first request and caches it
http://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2010/06/30/cdns-push-vs-pull/

24. Gotcha: Azure Blob Storage
 Media library limitations when storing files in an external
storage
https://docs.kentico.com/display/K82/Configuring+media+libraries#Configuringmedialibra
ries-Medialibrarylimitationswhenstoringfilesinanexternalstorage
“We recommend storing at most 100 files in a single media library folder.”

25. Tip and tricks: CDN
 Speeding up Kentico Websites with Rackspace CDN and Origin Pull
http://www.getstarted.com.au/Blog/September-2015/Kentico-Rackspace-Akamai-CDN-Origin-Pull
 Upgrade to hotfix 8.2.44 or newer

26. Demo – CDN

27. Web Farms & Kentico 9
 No additional configuration
 Robust, failure recovery and self-healing
 Improved performance (synchronizing physical files)

28. Demo – Web Farms

29. Tips & tricks: Web Farms
 Automatic deletion of inactive WF servers in 8.x
http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/automatic-deletion-of-inactive-wf-servers
 Automatically generate scheduled tasks for web farms
http://blogs.jeroenfurst.nl/blog/august-2015/automatically-generate-scheduled-tasks-for-web-far

30. Ready for liftoff

31. Demo – Deployment

32. Wrapping up
 Architecture
 Multi-Tenancy
 Session State
 Content Delivery Network
 Web Farms
 Deployment

33. Jeroen Fürst
Office: +31 (0)76 820 0920
Mobile: +31 (0)6 400 145 90
E-mail: jeroen.furst@truelime.nl
blogs.jeroenfurst.nl
twitter.com/jeroenfurst
nl.linkedin.com/in/jeroenfurst