Tag: scalability
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Sitecore 9 xDB Sharding
Have you ever wondered what is going on with those new Shard databases in Sitecore 9? This is the new xDB! The new Shard Manager stores data based on the contact ID. A contact ID is a GUID identifier that is unique for each contact. It looks something like this:…
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Eighth day of Christmas… Scaling agile!
On the eighth day of Christmas, my true blog gave to me: Eight Scrums a-scaling, Seven most-heard retrospective comments, Six Keystone config tips, Five Golden Rules! Four CI tools, Three powershell scripts, Two Keystone merge tips, …and a placeholder rule in the content tree. You may have found that a lot of…
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Sitecore: Publishing stuck on Initializing after applying Scalability settings
I recently came across this issue after applying some scalability settings, and couldn’t initially figure out why the publishing was no longer working. Accessing the Desktop and using site publishing would display the dialog, but would hang on the Initializing… stage. After some preliminary investigation, it turned out that the issue…