This Week in AEM… Akamai and AEM
We have had customers ask in the past if the Dispatcher is the same as a CDN. The Answer: no. The Dispatcher is not the same thing as a CDN. Yes, you can use a CDN with your AEM infrastructure. The...
View ArticleThis Week in AEM… Setup an author cluster with MongoDB
If you are going to need to have multiple Author instances setup for your Adobe Experience Manager infrastructure (AEM 6 and higher), then you are going to need to cluster them with MongoDB. This can...
View ArticleOnline Compaction for AEM 6.3
I recently was reading a thread on the AEM Tech slack board about online garbage compaction (also known as online revision cleanup) from user “edgar.nielsen” where he was asking about online...
View ArticleAEM 6.3 Cumulative Fix Pack 2 Released
One of our favorite improvements in the 6.x line is less about AEM itself and more about how Adobe releases fixes. During the lifecycle of AEM 6.2, Adobe began to release “Cumulative Fix Packs,” which...
View ArticleThis Week in AEM… How to Set Up a Dispatcher on macOS
Not long ago, Joey and I completed an Ask the AEM Community Experts presentation that explained how to Develop with the Dispatcher in Mind for AEM, and also why it is so important. You can watch the...
View ArticleIt’s Publish, not Publisher
This article is dumb and won’t improve your AEM development in the slightest. It’s a personal gripe. For me, it ranks right up there with people who mispronounce arthor, liberry, foilage, and nucular....
View ArticleThis Week in AEM… Creating an Akamai Replication Agent
I shared a post back in March 2017 about how to integrate Adobe Experience Manager and Akamai. Joey and I even did a podcast about CDNs—in general, the following week. Regardless I recognize that you...
View ArticleThis Week in AEM… Andrew Khoury’s Dispatcher Webinar
Andrew Khoury is a tiny god in Joey’s world; specifically when it comes to the Dispatcher for Adobe Experience Manager. Being a self-proclaimed smart man, Joey was greatly surprised at the things that...
View ArticleMulti Domain Dispatcher Configuration
Currently, most companies have multiple domains; they want to serve these domain requests from one single AEM instance, because of the obvious cost and management savings. This article describes...
View ArticleProgrammatic Cache Deletion
Every AEM infrastructure leverages the dispatcher for one or all of caching, security, and load balancing. As far as caching is concerned, many AEM customers rely on flush agents to keep things fresh....
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