AEM Architecture
Scalable, maintainable AEM systems that evolve with your business
Good AEM architecture is invisible when it works and painful when it doesn't. It determines how quickly your team can deliver new features, how reliably the platform performs under load, and how much effort it takes to onboard new developers. Having worked across AEM 6.2 through AEM Cloud Service, I have seen what scalable AEM systems look like — and what technical debt accumulates when architecture is deferred.
Coverage
What this covers
OSGi Service Architecture
Designing clean OSGi service layers — factory patterns, service ranking, configuration management, and avoiding common bundle dependency issues.
Sling Model Design
Best practices for Sling Model design — adaptable interfaces, injection strategies, delegation patterns, and avoiding anemic models.
Content Architecture & JCR
JCR node structure, content hierarchy design, namespace management, and avoiding content structures that create performance or maintenance problems.
Multi-Site Management
Blueprint, Live Copy, and language copy architectures for multi-brand, multi-region, and multi-language AEM implementations.
Component Library Design
Core Components usage and extension patterns, custom component architecture, editable templates, and Page Policy structures that scale to large author teams.
Oak Indexes & Query Performance
Designing and tuning Oak Lucene (or Elastic) indexes for reliable query performance — avoiding the slow queries that degrade author experience.
Differentiators
Why work with me
Cross-version breadth
I have worked with AEM from 6.2 through AEMaaCS. This version breadth means I can identify what patterns are genuinely evergreen vs. what needs to change for cloud compatibility.
Architecture for teams
Good architecture has to work for the whole team — not just the architect. I focus on patterns that are understandable, debuggable, and maintainable by teams of varying AEM experience levels.
Performance baked in
Architecture decisions have direct performance implications. I evaluate every significant pattern choice for its impact on author experience, delivery performance, and cache effectiveness.
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