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Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices

By : Samir Bhatt
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Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices

By: Samir Bhatt

Overview of this book

Liferay portal is the leading horizontal portal product available in the market. It was named lLeader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. Because of the flexibility offered by Liferay Portal for customizations, it is becoming a preferred best choice for portal implementations. Many influential sites have been implemented with or have switched to the Liferay portal. More and more Liferay developers and architects are needed in the IT industry.Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices will guide you in how to build high performing Liferay -based solutions. The book guides you on how to define the architecture of Liferay- based solutions to meet performance expectations. You will learn how to fine- tune the Liferay portal using configuration changes or applying the right caching strategy. By the time you finish reading, you will realize that you know all the essential best practices to improve the performance of the Liferay portal solution. The book comprises of Liferay portal performance best practices related to various aspects. It starts with the architecture and design best practices and ends with performance tuning and lLoad testing best practices. The book follows the logical flow. In the first chapter it talks about various architectural options and best practices. It also talks about the consequences of various architectural options. It talks about how to configure the Liferay portal to work in a clustered environment. It discusses the various options available in a cluster configuration. The book further talks about various configuration options of different components that are available for improving performance. The book also talks about various development best practices. It concludes with best practices related to load testing and a performance tuning exercise. Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices explains performance best practices with real examples and samples. By the end of this book, the reader will have learned everything he/she needs to know about Liferay portal performance best practices.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

About the Reviewers

Gaurav Barot is a Liferay Architect having 8 years of industry experience, with more than 4 years of experience in Liferay Portal technologies. He has executed Liferay projects in various domains such as media, healthcare, insurance, and so on. He has been involved in the complete life cycle of the project starting from requirement gathering to deployment. He has worked on various versions of Liferay from 5.x to 6.1. He is a certified trainer as well and has provided more than 15 successful private and public training sessions to more than 100 trainees across the globe.

He works with CIGNEX Datamatics, which is a global leader in Open Source technologies. He leads Liferay Practice having nearly 200 members at his organization. Gaurav also co-authored Liferay Beginner's Guide by Packt Publishing.

Albert Coronado Calzada is a highly experienced IT professional with more than 13 years of experience in Java EE, high performance portals, e-commerce, and enterprise software solutions. Albert has completed his Engineering degree in Information Technology and has pursued a Master's in Economic and Financial Management of Companies.

Albert is currently working as a freelance software developer, technical trainer, and consultant for international customers. Albert is an open source software contributor and has released different applications for Liferay and Android.

Albert has also worked on Liferay Beginner's Guide and Instant Liferay Portal 6 Starter by Packt Publishing.

Albert lives in Girona (Spain) and maintains a blog at http://www.albertcoronado.com. You can contact him through Linkedin (es.linkedin.com/in/albertcoronado/) or Twitter (@acoronadoc).

Chintan Mehta has over 10 years of progressive experience in Systems and Server Administration of Linux and open source technologies, along with applications such as Liferay, Alfresco, Drupal, Moodle, Magento, and Compiere. While developing his expertise in these areas, he also enhanced his technical skills in database administration, security, and performance tuning. He heads the Managed Cloud Services practice at CIGNEX Datamatics, and is involved in creating solutions and consulting customers on the cloud. Chintan has done Diploma in Computer Hardware and has a Network certification from a reputed institute in India.