Today we continue discussing the best practice from storage engineering:
391) Some companies in the retail industry have a lot of catalogs. Although there is significant investment in Master Data management, solutions similar to those can be built on top of object storage. This is definitely a niche space and one that can support an emerging trend.
392) These retail companies process significant read-only traffic for their catalogs with the help of http proxies and web services. The investment can be maintained the same so long as the read only operations on the backend translate to fetching objects from the object store. This can help ease the transition to directly serving it from the object storage.
393) Catalogs participate in a variety of workflows such as rewards service, promotions and campaigns and so on. When the catalogs are served from the service, they are subject to the limitations of the service. When the catalog is directly served from the object storage, then it becomes far easier to start new services.
394) Catalogs typically require no access controls since they are served to the public. This makes it more appealing to move it to object storage where content distribution, replication and multi-site support is available out of the box.
395) Catalogs also need to be served to a variety of devices. Websites tailored for mobile and desktop differ even in the content that is presented and not just the style, markup, script or logic. There is virtually no restriction to how much resource can be stored in the object storage and these can co-exist.
391) Some companies in the retail industry have a lot of catalogs. Although there is significant investment in Master Data management, solutions similar to those can be built on top of object storage. This is definitely a niche space and one that can support an emerging trend.
392) These retail companies process significant read-only traffic for their catalogs with the help of http proxies and web services. The investment can be maintained the same so long as the read only operations on the backend translate to fetching objects from the object store. This can help ease the transition to directly serving it from the object storage.
393) Catalogs participate in a variety of workflows such as rewards service, promotions and campaigns and so on. When the catalogs are served from the service, they are subject to the limitations of the service. When the catalog is directly served from the object storage, then it becomes far easier to start new services.
394) Catalogs typically require no access controls since they are served to the public. This makes it more appealing to move it to object storage where content distribution, replication and multi-site support is available out of the box.
395) Catalogs also need to be served to a variety of devices. Websites tailored for mobile and desktop differ even in the content that is presented and not just the style, markup, script or logic. There is virtually no restriction to how much resource can be stored in the object storage and these can co-exist.
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