Managing different Sitecore environments can be quite cumbersome. One of the things that I think is annoying is managing the configuration. In my Web.config alone, I currently have 2910 lines of Sitecore configuration, excluding the different configuration files in App_Config! I'm sure others have found this annoying as well. Here's a way of making things a lot easier.
On the server you need to install a Role Service called Management Service. You find this by going to ServerManager->Roles->WebServer(IIS) and then looking in right panel, section RoleServices. There it is, and there you can click to add it to the config.
A special thing about the queries is that they can be handled either directly in the database on the data provider level or by the data manager tier. When the query is being resolved, the data manager tries to use its data providers first and resorts to a higher level (and slower) API in case of failure.
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Good article on estimating dev tasks:
- Let developers estimate their own work
- Design first, and in detail
- Break things down to very small tasks
- Track actual times and learn from your mistakes
- Account for vacations, holidays, meetings, etc.
- Add schedule items
- Ignore business needs (and your manager)
- Learn more
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This document describes how you can scale a Sitecore CMS 6.3 solution by configuring multiple instances in one or more environments, such as Content Management (CM) and Content Delivery (CD). After defining requirements and recommendations for Sitecore CMS 6.3 multi-instance solutions, this document provides instructions to configure CM and CD environments, and describes the steps required to configure an example implementation.