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Fall in Love with SDL Tridion Publishing

STEPS TO BETTER PUBLISHING

1. DEFINE

2. INVESTIGATE

3. TUNE

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#1 DEFINE WHAT YOU NEED

CLICK = SUCCESS!

How much and how long?

Hrmm… ABOUT 4:32 PM?

END TO END TIMING

THROUGHPUT

PEAK LOADS

#2.1 DOCUMENT#2 INVESTIGATE

ENSURE ENVIRONMENT consistency

CONFIGURATION

DeploymentTransportPublishing

SIZING

Memory/CPUNetworkPerformance loads

INFRASTRUCTURE

Number of serversGeneral SetupVersions & hotfixes

#2.2 MEASURE#2 INVESTIGATE

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Power is …everything

PUBLISH TRANSACTIONSStart and End timingDeployment timingsPublishes vs UnpublishesAverages / Mean timings

THROUGHPUTDaily Queue snapshotsJob / Task load per day/ per hourAggregated performance data over timeValidate assumptions with fact

SERVER LOADCPU

MemoryDisk

Page/faultsIs there capacity available?

PROCESSED ITEMSTotal Process Items

Processed Item URIsTemplate URIs

Render Time

#3 TUNE

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POWER IS NOTHING… WITHOUT CONTROL

TestingThroughput & Duration

TweakingTridion, server, template, hardware

TargetStability, ample throughput, understanding

My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.- Peter Drucker

QUESTIONS