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Cluster aware coding in AEM by Joerg Hoh

Abstract

With AEM as a Cloud Service quite a number of small things have changed; and next to others you also get real clustering support in the authoring environment. Which is nice, because it gives you downtime-less authoring during deployments.

But this cluster also comes with a few gotchas, and one of them is that your application code needs to be cluster-aware. But what does that mean? What consequences does it have and what code do you have to change if you have never paid attention to this aspect?

The most important aspect is to do “every change only once“. It doesn’t make sense that 2 cluster nodes are importing the same set of data. A special version of this aspect is “avoid concurrent writes to the same node“, which can happen when a scheduled job is kicked off at the same time on all nodes, and this job is trying to change something in the repository. In this case you don’t only have overhead, but very likely a lot of exceptions.

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