Using and deploying Mongo DB on Amazon with SDL Tridion

Tech Spotlight with SDL Tridion MVPs

Julian Wraith & Nuno Linhares | SDL Innovate 2013 | 14th June 2013

• SDL Product Manager (Tridion)

• Ex-Consultant for SDL PS (8 years

field experience with Tridion)

• Data and web geek, business

process challenger

Who are we?

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• Technical Account Manager

• 10 years field experience with SDL

Tridion, specialist in infrastructure

• Plays with Clouds….allot

What is he talking about, why wouldn’t that work?

He doesn’t want Tridion running on MongoDB, rather he wants a NoSql

model for his content.

Again, what is he talking about, why wouldn’t that work?

Don’t try this at home!

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• Part of the NoSQL family of database servers

• Stores JSON like documents without storing these in relational tables

• Supports; sharding, replication, load balancing, aggregation and capped

collections

• Use cases; high performance / volume scenarios e.g. e-commerce,

websites, real-time statistics

What is Mongo DB?

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• Regular SDL Tridion 2013

– Single source of content

– On-premise or in the cloud

– Fully scaled

• Delivery of content

– Agile, new sites quickly

– Easy come, easy go

– Globally distributed?

– Scalable

– Off the shelf where possible

Deployment on AWS

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• Cloud Formation

• Application Servers

– Elastic Load Balancer

– Auto Scaling Group of Servers

– Scaling Policies for the group

– Launch Configuration; AMI,

sizing and deployment

• Deployer

• Mongo DB

• Security

• IP / DNS

Deployment on AWS

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Live deployment

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The content

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The Tridion view of the content

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Publisher

Transport

Deployer

Transformation

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The NoSQL / JSON view of the data

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• Spring MVC 3.2.2

• Apache Tiles 3

• MongoDB SpringData 1.2

The deployed application

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Standard MVC model

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Standard Tiles Approach

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The combined result!

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Questions

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• Nuno Linhares

– Blog: http://nunolinhares.blogspot.com

– Twitter: @nunolinhares

– Email: nlinhares@sdl.com

• Julian Wraith

– Blog: http://www.julianwraith.com

– Twitter: @julesdw

– Email: jwraith@sdl.com

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