Ready for Sitecore 9.3
Unless organisations are using MarTech Software-as-a-Service, the platform owners are tasked with continuous development and optimisation of the platform. MarTech running on PaaS or IaaS (i.e. not managed by a dedicated performance & optimisation team), will naturally experience contributions from multiple developers, parallel programs, significant data collection, and fluctuating traffic. All these activities are very normal, but also contribute to gradual performance degradation of the platform over time.
Now in 2020, and with a number of Sitecore version releases since 2018, the team was ready to upgrade their platform again and take advantage of the updated features in version 9.3.
The business was looking to address some of the above concerns within their existing platform. The team wanted to specifically look at the performance and optimisation of the:
- Content management server & content delivery response time
- Analytics & reporting
- xDB Analytics growth
- Scaling
- Content indexing
- xConnect & xDB load handling