The Staging slot EventQueue issue

Say what? Having the possibility of using staging slots when moving from on premises to the Cloud was one of the most promising and convenient improvements that could enhance the stability and uptime of our applications. Very exciting! But soon we ran into an issue, both with Cloud Services as with Web Apps: Where we could replicate …

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Saving costs by scaling down

Most of us who already experimented with Sitecore 8.2 Update 1 running on Web Apps have noticed that the default provisioning consumes quite some Azure credits. A bit too much maybe, at least for Research & Development purposes. So, to save some costs, I started looking into downscaling options. Of course, you can simply provision a CM-only …

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Sitecore 8.2-1 on Azure Web Apps

Following my blog post on Azure right after the Sitecore Symposium, I now finally can share the actual provisioning of a Sitecore deployment running on Azure Web Apps! Earlier this week, Sitecore released its new version 8.2 Update 1, which contains a lot of fresh Sitecore & Azure goodness (maybe even more than the Initial …

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An introduction to Sitecore on Azure Web Apps

Sitecore recently came with very exciting news regarding their Cloud proposition: from version 8.2 Update 1 Sitecore will support Azure App Service Web Apps! The current estimation is that this update will come available early November. In this first blog post on Azure Web Apps I will discuss the differences compared to earlier Cloud options …

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Configuring server roles

I have invested a lot of time lately in configuring different server roles and trying to see structure in the Sitecore documentation concerning server role configuration, which can be found here (…)/xdb_configuration/configuring_servers. Mind that the documentation behind this link constantly changes, so I cannot guarantee that my blog will stay consistent with it, but at least for …

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One-click deploy Sitecore

Recently I got the opportunity to set up a clean Sitecore environment for a new project. I love greenfield solutions. Not because I’m not able to build maintainable code, but because I can innovate quicker: I try to make significant steps pn each new project, improving the baseline of our development process. A re-invented mascot …

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Sitecore Azure

Sitecore hosting and deployments in Azure PaaS As promised I have made a webinar-like recording of my SUGCON talk about Sitecore Azure. It may not be the same experience as it was at the conference (I’m better at presenting to a live audience), and I do not have a fancy recording booth, so the quality isn’t …

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SUGCON Europe 2015

This year, the conference of SUGNL (Sitecore User Group Nederland), was aimed at a larger audience than last year, going from a national event to an international event. And despite the fact that it was named SUGCON Europe, people attended from all over the world! I was looking forward to this event for some time …

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Content delivery with Sitecore

Just a quick blog post to share my latests findings on the content delivery topic. I recently presented this mechanism at one of the SUGNL meetings and received positive feedback from fellow developers, so I thought it would be nice to get into detail some more with this blog post. When you are not using …

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