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Make Long Running Scheduled Agents Async

Sitecore’s Scheduled Agents and Tasks have been around forever and are well-known members of the XM suite. Less known is a gotcha you might run into when implementing long running operations (i.E. background import/export, bulk updates,…)

By Mark | December 7, 2020 | Basics, Coding | No Comments |

Why silent saving with a processing server is a bad idea

This post highlights why silent saving, EventDisabler or using BulkUpdateContext can lead to inconsistent data on a multi-CM environment i.E. when using a processing server.

By Mark | November 20, 2017 | Coding, Infrastructure | No Comments |

Querying generated Template Models with Glass

I have written some helper methods for working with generated Template Models and Glass.Mapper. Main goal is to make it easy for developers to query the Sitecore database using generated Template models. See Mike’s post for details on what Template…

By Mark | January 7, 2016 | Coding | No Comments |

Glass Mapper: Does the number of mapped fields have a performance impact?

Recently at work, the discussion arose if the number of fields mapped from Sitecore Items to our models would have a performance impact. The question was if we should limit the number of mapped properties in our IGlassBase interface to gain performance.…

By Mark | January 4, 2016 | Coding | No Comments |