There were a couple of new pipeline processors added in Sitecore 8 update 3 which periodically save the Cache and Rendering statistics to files in the /data folder. I haven’t seen much mention of them and speaking to a few people it seems to have been largely missed/ignored
This is a continuation of my previous blog post in which we uploaded files into Azure Blob Storage through the Sitecore Media Library. If you haven’t read it yet then first go and do that since this may not make much sense otherwise…
The previous post showed how to upload media files into Azure Blob Storage using a custom pipeline. I started off the post by stating that the requirement was to only store large files in Azure and that was primarily the focus of what we needed to achieve but some small tweaks meant it was possible to store all media in Cloud storage.
We still need to make some small updates to code to allow us to actually correctly link to the media in Azure though, so I’ll present a couple of options we have to do that.
On a recent project we had the requirement to be able to link to large files which the user would be able to download, file sizes could be up to 2GB in size. Far too large to store in Sitecore Media Library, at least in database storage. We had previously used Blob storage in Azure with great success for another (non-Sitecore) site so decided to utilise this again but wanted a seamless, single interface for the user to work with, i.e. everything through Sitecore.
Knowing that Azure has a rich API set and pretty much everything in Sitecore can be hacked into via the pipelines we set on our merry journey.
The following requirements were set in order to help set the boundaries:
There was also an additional requirement to automatically calculate the MD5 of each file which was uploaded. This ties in follows on nicely from my previous post about extending Media Item templates using Glass Mapper. Hopefully the specifics of that post will make more sense after this as well 🙂
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