Disclaimer: This is not a recommended approach to perform an upgrade. The SDL recommendation is to do Content Manager First.
In this approach, the Content Delivery module along with the application will be upgrade first to the latest version while keeping the Content Manager and other add-ons intact.
The old Content Manager then publish to the new, updated Content Delivery.
The below sequence of diagram illustrates the Five Steps approach:
Disadvantages
- Additional efforts for setting up the Publishing Target and Topology Manager both
- Risk of failures and down-times
- Repeated quality analysis
Director at Content Bloom India having 15+ years of experience in Software Development Life Cycle using AGILE, Iterative and RUP approaches. Experience in following: - CMS packages: SDL Tridion, Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), Sitecore, Umbraco, Kentico, and Alfresco - Search Engines: SOLR, AWS Cloud Search, Elastic Search - .NET Technologies: .NET & .NET CE Framework, ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, WinForms - Mobile Development: Android Native App, Windows Mobile App - Database: MS-SQL Server, MySQL - Program Management: JIRA, MS-Project, Trello - Design Tools: MS-Visio, StarUML - Infrastructure: Linux, Windows Server, AWS Have decent knowledge about Core Java, Spring MVC Instrumental in Application Architecture, Designing (HLD & LLD), Coding and deployment .NET applications (Web, Desktop, Mobile). Experience in following domain: - Digital Media & eCommerce - Travel & Hospitality - Aviation Industry - Education - Insurance - Automation - Automobile - Railways Education: Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering and Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration with specialization in Marketing
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