Reference link:List of all Community experts sessions can be located at :- https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/topics/ate-sessions.html// Look for : Comparative Architecture Analysis of large scale Experience Manager Installations(October 2016)This session will share large scale architectures from the author's experiences with various companies like Cisco, Symantec, and EMC and compare and contrast the architecture across: Infrastructure Architecture ScalingEcommerce integrations and migr...

HiCan you please state the use-case of publishing first and then replicating content in Author ?Author: This is the environment where you, and your colleagues, will input your content and administrate the system.Publish:This environment holds the content you have made available to visitors to your website; be it public, or within your intranet.The best practice is always do author-> publish. If your use-case is to do replication on specific content then please have a look at this community artic...

If you are not having multi locale website(like for china,india,us etc) and want to replicate the content from author to all publish servers use replication receiver as the transport user.If you want your content to be replicated only to limited locale then you can create separate replication users and provide the appropriate permission on content.regards,Ankur AhlawatAEM CQ5 Tutorials