Category: Architecture

Sitecore on Solr Cloud: Part 3 – Creating Your Sitecore Collection

This post is part of a series of posts on setting up your Sitecore application to run with Solr Cloud. We’ll be covering the procedure for setting up a Sitecore environment using the Solr search provider, and the creation of a 3-node Solr cloud cluster. This series is broken into four parts.

For the third part of this series, we will create our Sitecore collection, add replicas, and connect Sitecore to the collection. We’ll also go over load balancing the requests to distribute them among the Solr cloud nodes.

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Sitecore on Solr Cloud: Part 1 – Architecture

This post is part of a series of posts on setting up your Sitecore application to run with Solr Cloud. We’ll be covering the procedure for setting up a Sitecore environment using the Solr search provider, and the creation of a 3-node Solr cloud cluster. This series is broken into four parts.

For the first part of this series, we’ll go over some assumptions, prerequisites, definitions, as well as the architecture of Solr Cloud and how it interacts with a Sitecore application.

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Preparing Your Site for Heavy Traffic

A few weeks ago one of our Sitecore clients had a piece of content hit the front page of Reddit.  Too often I see sites get an explosion of traffic, usually unexpected, and the site can’t handle the sudden spike in visitors. Fortunately, this client site’s architecture was able to handle the influx of traffic without a problem.

If your site goes down when your page views shoot up, you’ve squandered a rare opportunity. First impressions are important, and a user whose first impression of your site is instability is a user that likely won’t return. There are things you can do to prepare. My post over at Velir’s blog goes into more detail.