Build a resilient solution

Many solutions depend heavily on functionality like search-based landing pages.

Reliable service

You should count on the reliability specified in your service level agreement (SLA). Nevertheless, as search is a central part of a solution, you should implement a graceful degradation strategy if the Search & Navigation service becomes unavailable.

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Note

If Optimizely is not hosting Search & Navigation, Optimizely cannot guarantee the connection between an application and the Search & Navigation service.

Cope with downtime

Leave the search-generated page sections blank

For example, a page lists the most watched products fetched from Optimizely Search & Navigation. If Optimizely Search & Navigation is down, display a blank list.

Advantage

• Simple to implement.

Disadvantage

• The site does not display the expected information.

Implement query caching

See query caching

Advantages

• Relatively simple to implement.
• The site works in many scenarios even if Optimizely Search & Navigation is down.

Disadvantage

• Development effort required.

Use FindPagesWithCriteria as back-up

See FindPagesWithCriteria.

Advantage

• The site works even if Optimizely Search & Navigation has issues.

Disadvantages

• It takes longer to implement.
• The site is significantly slower.