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  • Inspect the DXA Localization object

     
    Sometimes you just want to look under the hood and see what DXA is doing. Here is a tool to inspect the Localization object for DXA .NET. This also gives insight in all the published resources and configuration parameters. I use this when I have to u...
  • SDL Web 8 – DXA “admin refresh” on Load Balanced Servers

     
    DXA has a nice feature which caches labels, settings and mapping information on disk when it first loads up. This increases performance of model mapping and commonly used resources. These are published by the Publish Settings Page in SDL Web/Tridion....
  • Oracle backplane for SignalR

     
    A lot of people are using Oracle as their database of choice, in which case, they cannot just use the same database as a backplane just like you can use SQL Server if that was your database of choice. An option could be just to use REDIS or some othe...
  • Building a Raspberry PI Robot Car part1

     
    In the recent few months I have been very focussed on a few topics like humanoid robotics and robot interaction. Recently I have had some extra time and decided to take the next step and really design a robot from scratch. I thought for my first from...
  • UI Notification framework

     
      Last week in TDS India I have presented a session on UI Notification framework. Since then I have received few request to share the code, so I think it is best to write a blog on this and share it with everyone. SDL Web 8.5 has introduced a ne...
  • Using and debugging DXA (Java) with Web 8.5 on Amazon

     
    So I finally got around to having enough time to set up a Java-based DXA connecting to a Content Service in the Amazon cloud. It was a fun adventure, to say the least, and most of it is due to … Continue reading →
  • Autoscaling Publishers in AWS

     
    This series of blog posts presents in detail the setup of Tridion Publishers autoscaling as implemented for Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure.Originally, I was inspired by Julian's post abo...
  • Using AWS to scale SDL Web Publishers

     
    In a recent blog post, ContentBloom’s Brandon Mahoney asked How Big Can CMS Infrastructure Get? with the short answer being as much as you want to spend. It is true today as it always has been, that you can build any infrastructure to fulfill any set...
  • What is workflow auditing and what are the drawbacks?

     
    What is it? If you want to track content versions created between Workflow Activities in a Workflow Process, you can enable auditing of a Workflow Process. When you enable Workflow auditing, “snapshots” are taken of an item as it progress...
  • SignalR based backplane

     
    SignalR is being used in more and more projects. But, scaling SignalR application has an inherent limitation, where the web application needs to be able to talk to a backplane directly. In some cases this kind of deployment maybe unacceptable. When w...