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Putting Redis to Production - Part I - Security

Hao Peng over 7 years ago

Introduction - An Important Story

If you have set up a Redis locally and got it to work with DXA so far, big applause to you! You now have a Redis in your local Development Environment. Like everything else, a Development Environment is likely to be very different from a Production one, so in this post…

8 Jun 2017

Scissors, Strimmer or Lawnmower? – Designing schema to be the right tool for…

James Smith over 7 years ago

For any given content requirement there are a number of ways of defining a schema to provide an author/editor with all the necessary fields to produce their content. Using plain text, rich text, multi-value fields, embedded schema, component links etc. are all valid and correct, but more consideration…

7 Jun 2017

Redis - An Alternative (to) Cache - Part II

Hao Peng over 7 years ago

The Big Why You may ask, why should I use Redis? I have been working with Memory Cache and Relational Databases, and so far I am still OK. Right?

I am staring at the picture above, and asking myself the exact question: why are people still using such a phone?

It is traditional, and some people like…

3 Jun 2017

Redis - An Alternative (to) Cache - Part I

Hao Peng over 7 years ago

Redis is not a new concept but only introduced to SDL Web 8.5 recently. It is a good choice, and hope it will gain lots of popularity in SDL's ecosystem.

This series will show a few basic concepts on Redis and how it is used in SDL Web, and how you can use it inside and outside SDL products…

3 Jun 2017

Script To Find Item By Dynamic Component Template And Re-Publish

Sayantan Basu over 7 years ago

In my previous blog I have described how easily we can add or update field of the page metadata in one go and publish all the pages using Coreservice API. Today I will describe another script which is not very common but sometimes useful.

Scenario: In a migration phase (Or in maintenance phase) if you…

29 May 2017

Tridion Developer Summit Presentation: "SDL Web Extension Gotchas"

Alvin Reyes over 7 years ago

My colleague Derya Dönmez and I delivered the Tridion Developer Summit 2017 presentation "SDL Web Extension and Integration Gotchas, User Experience, and You."

This was a chance to:

Share lessons learned from the field and in my latest role as a Product Owner
Introduce Derya to the larger…

26 May 2017

SDL Web 8 - Securing Micro-Services with SSL and a CA certificate

Paul Dessart over 7 years ago

In this document we will explain how to create a custom keystore and import the CA certificate and matching key pair allowing SSL support on Tomcat Embedded as used on SDL Micro-services. The Keystore steps are general and may be used for any CA Certificate support on Java.

2 May 2017

SDL Web Deployer Extension for sending Purge requests to Akamai

Philip Medcraft over 7 years ago

Akamai provides a simple REST API for automating content purge requests. For detailed information regarding the API, please refer to the CCU REST API Developers Guide.

Akamai's REST API supports a number of calls. In this article I will only cover the calls to:

Make a Purge Request
Check a Purge…

28 Apr 2017

Workaround For a Known Issue In Retrofit Mode for DXA 1.7

Sayantan Basu over 7 years ago

I have already discussed about the Retrofit Mode (the new feature introduced in DXA 1.7). If you have missed that, then check this. Today I will share 1 common issue in a retrofit mode and workaround for that.

If you are planning to use Media Manager module and want to add ECL media Item into Rich text…

28 Apr 2017