Rafe Colburn

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December 14, 1999, on Vignette StoryServer:
I worked on a pretty sizable Storyserver implementation in the first part of 1999, and when people ask me about using SS on other projects, I tell them that Storyserver provides two compelling features. The first is that it dynamically generates pages that are indexable by search engines. When you write things the "Storyserver way," your pages don't require information in the query string to render the correct page, so they're easy for search engines to index. The second is that it caches pages that don't need to be generated dynamically every time, so it offers decent performance when most of the pages on your site can be cached in this manner. Unfortunately, the trend is toward dynamically generating all of the pages on a site for every user, so this feature isn't very compelling to many potential customers. When we did the Storyserver implementation, we found that we cached none of the pages on the site, although we did cache a few components that were used on lots of page...