Various ways to speed up your Sitecore implementation. Starting the forgotten features till new features introduced in Sitecore 7.5/8

2. Making ultra-fast, ultra scalable solutions with Sitecore 8
Mark van Aalst // Sitecore
Developer & Platform Evangelism

5. Who has been working with
Sitecore 5

6. Remember those
content dots?

7. Who has been working with
Sitecore 6

8. Who has been working with
Sitecore 7

9. • Sitecore 1.01999
• Sitecore 3.0 (ASP.NET)2001
• Sitecore 4.02002
• Sitecore 5.0: New UI2005
• Sitecore 6.0: Online Marketing Suite2008
• Sitecore 6.5: Digital Marketing System2011
• Sitecore 7.0: Search Based Architecture2013
• Sitecore 7.5: Sitecore Experience Platform2014
• Sitecore 8.0NOW

10. Times Are Changing

11. Simple websites

12. Auto suggest

13. Amazon.com offers
more than
232.000.000 products

14. 31% of households in
developing countries
78% of households in
developed countries

15. Personalized
Smarter
Larger
More users

16. In the early
days

17. 1 choice

18. 3 options

19. Rendering
XSLT

20. Sublayout
Web User Control

21. WebControl
ASP.Net Control

23. Sublayouts
Renderings
XSLT
User Controls
Controller Renderings
Views
Razor
Model View Controller
Webforms
Lucene
SOLR
Buckets
Indexing
Sharding
Publishing

24. It all starts with

25. Item
An addressable unit of content made up of fields that
contain information (Sitecore Glossary)

26. Where do Items come from?
SQL
DataProvider
DataAPI (Nexus)
Data Engine
Item Provider
Item Manager

27. Common ways to retrieve items

28. Example: /sitecore/content/home/*
Sitecore Query

29. Example: fast:/sitecore/content/home/*
Sitecore Fast Query

30. Contextual API to execute operations
Sitecore Item API

31. LINQ to search provider
Custom Search Result classes
Mapping to C# properties
ContentSearch

32. Requesting Items
0
500
1000
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2500
10 100
Sitecore Query Fast Query Item API ContentSearch

33. Requesting Items
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2
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10
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20
10 100
Fast Query Item API ContentSearch

34. Requesting Items
0
50
100
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250
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1000
Fast Query Item API ContentSearch

35. Requesting Items
0
5
10
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10000
Fast Query ContentSearch

36. Leveraging ContentSearch

37. The power of ContentSearch
Search / Linq Provider Crawling
SOLR
Lucene
Provider
Expression Parser
Search Expression
Tree
Document Mapping
Crawlers
Computed
Fields
Indexing
Strategy
Field
Readers
Provider
Expression Parser
Index
Implementation
Field Name
Translator
Index
Operations
Type Converters

38. Linq to Search provider
Custom SearchResultItem
classes
Mapping Sitecore fields to C#
properties
Runnning search providers
(Lucene, SOLR and Coveo,
HelioSearch) at the same time!!
Low CPU footprint
The power of ContentSearch

39. Example
We have a large online store with 100.000+ products and advanced faceted
navigation.
We can leverage SOLR to index all products and products details. But
Lucene to index the most popular products in the different categories.
Website
Products
Lucene SOLR
Product Index
(D:)
Content Index
(E:)
Products Products

40. Scale indexes across multiple disks
Sharded indexes

41. Tooling

42. Sitecore has a built-in debugger!
Debugging

43. Add your own tracing with Sitecore.Diagnostics.Tracing.Debug()
Tracing

44. Add your own profiling with Sitecore.Diagnostics.Profiler.StartOperation()
Profiler

45. Helpful tools
Administrative pages

46. Shows presentation components and their performance
Stats.aspx

47. • Identifies different caches
• In use and max values
Cache.aspx

48. Alle (custom) pipelines with performance indicators
Pipelines.aspx

49. Parse Sitecore log files
Filter on date or string
Sitecore Log Analyzer

50. Full Visual Studio integration
• Edit
• Design
• Search
• Debug tools
• NuGet
• Powershell
Sitecore RocksSitecore Rocks

51. Experience Marketing

52. OverviewGetlocalDNSConfiduration
Session State Server
Private Session State
Shared Session State
Content Delivery Cluster 1
Session State Server
Private Session State
Shared Session State
Content Delivery Cluster 2
Collection Database
Reporting
Automation
Tracking
Analytics
Processing Servers
Reporting Database
Segmentation Index
ReportingService
Dashboard
Reporting
ECM
WFFM

53. Session state
Server Roles
Processing
Content Management Content Delivery
ReportingHarvesting
Cloud offerings

54. Experience Marketing
Collection Database

55. NoSQL (MongoDB)
- Contacts
- History
- Automations
- Interactions
Set Priorities
Scale across disks / machines
Collection Database

56. Collection Database

57. Experience Marketing
Session Management

58. No more sticky mode!
One centralized server for each CD Cluster
Session Management
Session State Server
Content Delivery Cluster
Private Session State
Shared Session State
Non-sticky
Load balancer

59. Two types to session data
Private Session
Interaction
Example data:
Pages visited.
Goals converted.
Events triggered.
Campaigns activated.
Engagement value points accumulated.
Shared Session
Contact and devices
Example data:
Contact details.
Devices.
Engagement automation states.
Recommended to use MongoDB

60. Example: shared and private sessions
Contact
Visit 1
Visit 2
Shared Session
Private Session
Private Session
timeout
timeout
time
sessions
CollectionDatabase

61. Example:
Session State Server
CD 1 CD 2
Session transfer
webservice
Session transfer
webservice
ContentDeliveryCluster1
Collection
Database
push contact session
Session State Server
CD 3 CD 4
Session transfer
webservice
Session transfer
webservice
ContentDeliveryCluster2
Session 1 Session 2

62. Session Management
Default provider is the inProc session provider (small standalone
installations)
For multi-server environments:
• Sitecore ASP.NET Session State Store Provider for MongoDB
• Sitecore ASP.NET Session State Store Provider for Microsoft SQL Server

63. Experience Marketing
Processing Server

64. What is the processing server
Collection Database
(MongoDB)
Reporting Database
(SQL Server)
Processing Server

65. How do we use it
Website
Traffic
Collection DB
Continous
Update
Reporting DB
Reporting
Applications

66. How can you use it
All our products in our catalogue can be rated by the users. Based on these
ratings the order or appearance of the products could be altered.
There are five steps to implement:
• Create a page event to rate a product
• Create a fact table
• Create Fact and Dimension Model Classes
• Implementing the Aggregation Processor
• Registering your Custom Aggregation

67. Experience Marketing
Reporting Database

68. Reporting Database tables

69. Fact tables
The Fact table contains information about the metrics collected. A
fact table can be used by one or more reports.
The data in the fact tables are calculated by the aggregation task.

70. Scaling the xDB

71. All components installed on one
machine
• Content Delivery
• Session State
• Collection
• Processing
• Reporting
• Content Management
Standalone Installation
Collection
core
master
web
reporting

72. XDB, SessionState XDB, SessionState XDB, SessionState
mongoDB replica set
Primary Secondary Secondary
CD2
CD1
CM
Aggregation
core
master
web
reporting
Basic high-availability setup

73. XDB, SessionState XDB, SessionState XDB, SessionState
mongoDB replica set
Primary Secondary Secondary
CD2
CD1
CM
core
master
web
reporting
Aggregation
Vertical Scaling Example

74. XDB, SessionState XDB, SessionState XDB, SessionState
mongoDB replica set
Primary Secondary Secondary
CD2
CD1
CM
core
master
web
reporting
Aggregation Aggregation
Horizontal Scaling Example

75. Seperate xDB & SessionState Replica Sets
mongoDB replica set
CD2
CD1
CM
core
master
web
reporting
Aggregation Aggregation
xDB xDB xDB
Primary Secondary Secondary
SessionState SessionState SessionState
mongoDB replica set
Primary Secondary Secondary

76. One more thing...

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78. Q&A
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79. Contact
@markvanaalst
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