Sitecore Headless architecture in Ravana ways

With version 9.1, Sitecore officially started to support JSS(Java Script Services) which bring a capability of true headless CMS.

 

But headless is still a new concept for many developers and if you questioned them during interview what is headless, many developers just started to feel uncomfortable.

This article may help you to understand headless architecture through Ravana(Wikipedia) way.

In India we have one of the greatest epic called Ramayana.

In short it's an epic about lord Rama, Sita, Ravana etc. This Ravana is very interesting mythological character and help me to understand headless architecture.

In many temples, Ravana showed with all his weapons and with 10 heads as

Ravan

Ravana kidnapped Sita, so there was a war between Rama and Ravana. During that war Rama cut his head as

Headless Ravan

But Ravana was blessed with boon from Brahma and nobody can kill him in normal way.

Here you can imagine Ravana legs as Sitecore databases, his middle body as Sitecore XP and his all weapons represented as xConnect, Sitecore analytics and services, etc. 

But any living creature can't be survive well without any head. Similarly Sitecore can be headless but your final product or website can't be headless. It must have at least one or more head. It's something like

Depicting Sitecore and Ravan

Ravana had 10 heads which were different in look and shape. Each head was master in one field but ultimately, they all were face of Ravana. 

Similarly there are different front-end technologies with different features and uses. Where front end technologies can be angular, React, Vue.js, knockout, ASP.Net, MVC, Ruby etc. 

In short Ravana body represent Sitecore backend parts while his heads represent front end technologies.

That’s it.

I hope Ravana's character help you to understand Headless architecture. So next time someone ask you about headless explain him through Ravana's way.

Happy headless.

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