AEM Sites Architect Master case studies
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The Adobe Certified Master - Adobe Experience Manager Sites Architect credential is Adobe's advanced, architect-level certification for practitioners who design and lead AEM Sites implementations rather than simply build components. It suits senior developers, technical leads, and solution architects who translate business requirements into a scalable AEM architecture, define component and template strategy, model content for both traditional and headless delivery, and make defensible decisions about deployment topology, caching, security, and governance. The AEM Sites Architect Master case studies are 5 cases and about 3,158 words.
1Peak-Traffic Dispatcher Strategy for a Global Retailer
A global retailer runs AEM as a Cloud Service with a single publish tier serving three regional brands from one Dispatcher farm. During a flash sale, origin CPU hits 95%, average publish response time climbs from 180 ms to 2.4 s, and 30% of requests return 503.
624 words, about 3 min2Editable Template Governance Across 40 Brand Sites
A media company maintains 40 brand sites on AEM 6.5 (soon migrating to Cloud Service). Each site was built by a different agency using its own editable templates.
635 words, about 3 min3Content Fragment and Experience Fragment Strategy for a Headless + Web Channel
A travel company needs to publish destination content to (a) its AEM Sites web experience, (b) a native mobile app via GraphQL, and (c) a partner API. Editors currently duplicate content: they write a destination article as a page, then re-key the same facts into a content fragment for the app.
640 words, about 3 min4Migrating a Multi-Site AEM 6.5 Estate to Cloud Service
A financial services firm runs AEM 6.5 on-premise with 12 sites managed via MSM live copies, a custom replication agent that pushes content to a legacy search appliance, and 8 custom OSGi services. They must move to AEM as a Cloud Service within 12 months.
635 words, about 3 min5Diagnosing Slow Author Experience After a Component Rollout
After a release that added 6 new components and a large client library, authors on a 12-site AEM instance report the page editor takes 25–40 seconds to load and sometimes hangs. The release also enabled a new personalization tag on every page.
624 words, about 3 min