We started out our evening with a nice Indonesian buffet which offered us the opportunity to catch up with our fellow Sitecore enthusiasts. We welcomed back some familiar face and met some first-time joiners that recently moved from India to the Netherlands.

The first session was presented by Vitalii Tylyk, who gave a very nice session on his experience with Sitecore JSS in one of our We are you projects for an international bank. He presented how to convert a traditional Sitecore MVC solution to the new tech stack with JSS and Angular. There were some nice tips and tricks, and a clear overview of steps to take in this migration process. This was a welcome topic as a lot of agencies seem to face these types of projects and have some reservations on taking the big leap.

SOLR search

The second presentation was given by Paul Dohmen from Cognizant with some support from Chris Cremault from SearchStax. He talked about a journey of implementing a scalable SOLR search solution. The main takeaway is that implementing a proper search solution and making Sitecore work properly with indexing the right content, and in an efficient way is enough of a challenge itself, without having to worry of setting up a scalable infrastructure for SOLR. Third party solutions to arrange this infrastructure for you is therefore the recommended way by Paul, if you have requirements for a scalable SOLR implementations.