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Sitecore Symposium 2016 - Recap

1SUGNL - Developer track - Achmea 19 October 2016

About me

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• Robbert Hock (Kayee)

• Freelance Sitecore Architect/Developer

• 7x Sitecore MVP (2010-2016)

• Co-founder of Sitecore UG Netherlands (SUGNL)

• Co-organizer of SUGCON

• Website: http://www.kayee.nl

• Twitter: @kayeeNL

SUGNL - Developer track - Achmea 19 October 2016

Agenda – Day 1

• Developer keynote

• Dreams achieved: xConnect will drive your brand’s next digital revolution

• Better Together: Sitecore on Azure

• In the Fast Lane: SXA for Sitecore Developers


Agenda – Day 2

• Path Analyzer X-Files: How we built the ultimate xDB forensic tool

• Keeping Hackers Out: Secure Application Development for Sitecore

• Sitecore Habitat: Make it your home

• Now in Top Gear: How we turbocharged Sitecore Publishing with .NET

Core


Keynote and panel video’s

• http://players.brightcove.net/1640544109001/default_default/index.html

?videoId=5159878761001


?videoId=5166355692001


?videoId=5169747331001


http://players.brightcove.net/1640544109001/default_default/index.html?videoId=5159878761001



Developer Keynote – Lars Floe Nielsen


Developer Keynote - Highlights

• Adoption of popular tools and frameworks

• Standardization

• Micro-services

• Better tools and API’s for integration

• Easier upgrades

• Open Source Ecosystem


NuGet support

• NuGet V3 feed URL (Visual Studio 2015+)

• https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-packages/api/v3/index.json

• NuGet V2 feed URL (Visual Studio 2012+)

• https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-packages/

• Browse packages

• https://sitecore.myget.org/gallery/sc-packages


https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-packages/api/v3/index.json

https://sitecore.myget.org/F/sc-packages/

https://sitecore.myget.org/gallery/sc-packages

Nuget packages

• Sitecore packages: (NoReferences and default with ref)

• 7.2 and updates – 8.2

• Modules packages:

• EXM, WFFM, Data Exchange Framework, Sitecore provider for DEF & Dynamics CRM

Provider for DEF


Sitecore® Helix is a set of official guidelines and recommended practices for Sitecore

Development.


Standardization

Why Helix?

• Set of architecture conventions and guidelines that describe how to apply

recommended technical design principles to a Sitecore project.

• Secure implementations in a future-proof way by architecting them as

maintainable and extensible business-centric modules

• Development process recommendations to make it as easy as

possible to build, test, extend, and maintain Sitecore

implementations


Helix Architecture


Habitat is an example project that follows the Helix principles and recommended practices.


Helix vs Habitat

More info:

• Documentation:

• http://helix.sitecore.net/

• Helix Workshop on YouTube:

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1jJVFm_lGnz0XzXU5uNJSgTGMxNFsOky

• Habitat YouTube playlist:

• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPUlWLfr_qcTrch4j1XYNnT6PI-tW3sur

• Habitat website: http://habitat.sitecore.net/

• https://github.com/Sitecore/Habitat

• Demo website: http://legal.demo.sitecore.net/

• https://github.com/sitecore/sitecore.demo


http://helix.sitecore.net/

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1jJVFm_lGnz0XzXU5uNJSgTGMxNFsOky

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPUlWLfr_qcTrch4j1XYNnT6PI-tW3sur

http://habitat.sitecore.net/

https://github.com/Sitecore/Habitat

http://legal.demo.sitecore.net/

https://github.com/sitecore/sitecore.demo


Sitecore feedback

Sitecore feedback channel:

• https://sitecore.uservoice.com/ -> new feedback channel

• https://sitecorecommunity.uservoice.com/ -> old feedback channel


https://sitecore.uservoice.com/

https://sitecorecommunity.uservoice.com/

The Community


XConnect – Todd Mitchell


Collect and act on any information about any individual – from any channel at any

time


What is the meaning of Xconnect?

XConnect – Channels


XConnect – Architecture



Sitecore on Azure


Redis Cache


Application Insights


Alerts


Azure Search


Azure Resource Manager templates (ARM)


Azure Scaling

Sitecore Azure conclusion:

• Up and Running with Minimal Complexities: Azure Marketplace

• Total Control: ARM Templates

• Everything is Done For Me: Managed Services (when available)

• XDB-enable Existing Deployment w/ Minimal Hassle: XDB Cloud

• Check out:

• http://sitecore.robhabraken.nl/index.php/2407/an-introduction-to-sitecore-on-azure-

web-apps/


http://sitecore.robhabraken.nl/index.php/2407/an-introduction-to-sitecore-on-azure-web-apps/

SXA – Sitecore Experience Accelerator


SXA – Impact


Why SXA?


What’s in SXA?


SXA – Architecture


SXA – Concepts


• Toolbox

• Grid and column layout

• Pluggable themes

• Page designs and partial designs

• Creative Exchange

• Assets Optimizer

SXA – PowerShell driven

• Tenant – Business Unit

• Site

• Content structure

• Configuration

• Site theme

• Media Library folders

• Tenant templates


SXA – Create a Tenant


SXA – Create a Site 1/2


SXA – Create a Site 2/2


SXA – Designing in the Experience Editor


SXA – Grid en columns


SXA – Page & Partial Designs


SXA – Rendering variants


SXA – Page & Partial Designs


SXA – Creative Exchange


SXA – Create your own SXA compatible renderings


Path Analyzer X-Files


What is the Path Analyzer?

• Forensic tool for Digital Data analysts

• Focus on sequence analysis of xDB data

• Data engine + 2 visual apps

• Available since Sitecore 8


Path Analyzer - Interactions


Path Analyzer – How it works


What’s new in Path Analyzer 8.2?

• Removed Silverlight!

• New Front-end

• Reworked UX

• Marketing funnels

• New dashboard

• New visualizations

• New Filters


How they build it?

• 100% JavaScript

• Standalone product

• New technology

• React

• Redux

• D3.js -> visualizations

• Webpack


Next steps?



Sitecore Habitat – Sean Holmesby

Habitat is an example project that follows the Helix principles and recommended practices.


Repeat! Helix vs Habitat


Habitat is an example website


“My site is on Habitat”

Habitat example

• https://github.com/Sitecore/Habitat

• The architecture and methodology focuses on:

• Simplicity - A consistent and discoverable architecture

• Flexibility - Change and add quickly and without worry

• Extensibility - Simply add new features without steep learning curve


https://github.com/Sitecore/Habitat


Habitat Layers (actually Helix layers)

Habitat vs the Sitecore landscape

• ORM’s (Glass, Synthesis, Fortis)

• Other serialization tools then Unicorn (TDS)

• Other Code practices (Dependency Injection, NuGet)

• Other implementations (Coveo, SOLR, etc.)



Habitat with TDS

Habitat NuGet

• Unicorn and Glass don’t support V3 yet, only V2

• Use V2 of the official NuGet for now!

• Use the Sitecore official NuGet feed, NoReferences


Habitat Glass, Coveo & FXCop rules

• Sean showed Habitat branches with Glass and Coveo

• Soon on his github account: https://github.com/SaintSkeeta/Habitat


https://github.com/SaintSkeeta/Habitat

Habitat and DI and using DI in 8.2

• Habitat Dependency Injection with Sitecore 8.2

• http://www.sitecorenutsbolts.net/2016/09/17/Habitat-Dependency-Injection-with-Sitecore-8-

2/ -> Richard Seal

• DI in Sitecore 8.2

• http://kamsar.net/index.php/2016/08/Dependency-Injection-in-Sitecore-8-2/ -> Kam Figy

• http://www.akshaysura.com/2016/09/15/microsoft-extensions-dependency-injection-di-with-

sitecore-8-2-sample-project/ -> Akshay Sura

• DI configuration Page

• /sitecore/admin/ShowServicesConfig.aspx


http://www.sitecorenutsbolts.net/2016/09/17/Habitat-Dependency-Injection-with-Sitecore-8-2/

http://kamsar.net/index.php/2016/08/Dependency-Injection-in-Sitecore-8-2/

http://www.akshaysura.com/2016/09/15/microsoft-extensions-dependency-injection-di-with-sitecore-8-2-sample-project/

Sitecore Publishing with .NET Core


What is it and why?

• New stand alone ASP.NET CORE service

• Aligns with Sitecore .NET Core strategy

• Old publishing mechanism 10 years old

• Slow with many items

• Latency on Geo Located targets

• Integration module adds SPEAK dialogs to the Sitecore instance


Why was it so slow?

• Reads per item 8 different publish restriction fields

• (Publish from, Publish until, Never publish, Valid To, Valid From, Workflow state,

Publishing targets, Hide Version)

• For each field check the standard values (iterate through base templates)

• Workflow check

• Walk through the ancestors (bubble up to the parents)

• Check item for more languages (repeat the above process)

• Multiple publishing targets? Repeat the whole process per target

• Related items?


What they come up with?

• Modular architecture – Separate Publishing Service

• Bulk operations

• Read & Write in configurable amounts

• Read items and their fields in bulk

• Read all languages for that publish at once

• New publishing dashboard


More info on Publishing Service

• Documentation

• https://dev.sitecore.net/Downloads/Sitecore_Publishing_Service.aspx

• Sitecore Publishing Service (blogpost by Jonathan Robbins)

• https://jonathanrobbins.co.uk/2016/09/02/setting-up-sitecore-publishing-service/


https://dev.sitecore.net/Downloads/Sitecore_Publishing_Service.aspx

https://jonathanrobbins.co.uk/2016/09/02/setting-up-sitecore-publishing-service/

Data Exchange Framework

Sitecore Data Exchange Framework is designed to facilitate the transfer of

data between systems. It allows you to define the logic needed to read data

from a source system, transform that data into a format that is compatible

with a target system, and write the transformed data into a target system

• Documentation:

http://integrationsdn.sitecore.net/DataExchangeFramework/v1.1/

• Download:

https://dev.sitecore.net/Downloads/Data_Exchange_Framework.aspx


http://integrationsdn.sitecore.net/DataExchangeFramework/v1.1/

https://dev.sitecore.net/Downloads/Data_Exchange_Framework.aspx

Yeoman Sitecore Helix Generator

• generator-prodigious-helix

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/generator-prodigious-helix

• yo prodigious-helix -> create the initial scaffolding to start Sitecore-ing following

Helix principles

• yo prodigious-helix:feature -> configure your feature based on yeoman questions

• yo prodigious-helix:feature-tds -> Adds and configures TDS projects to the feature

• yo prodigious-helix:foundation -> Adds foundation

• yo prodigious-helix:foundation-tds -> Adds and configures TDS project to the

foundation


Sitecore Symposium 2017


Q & A


Thank you Achmea!


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