Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices

A step-by-step tutorial on implementing Liferay- based portals to learn performance best practices.The book is good for Liferay portal developers and architects who want to learn performance best practices for implementing Liferay- based solutions. It is assumed that you have a working knowledge of the Liferay portal.

Build a Next-Generation Enterprise Digital Platform with Portals and UXP A Complete Guide to Portals and User Experience Platforms provides in-depth coverage of portal technologies and user experience platforms (UXPs), which form the key pillars of a modern digital platform. Drawing on his experience in various roles in numerous portal engagements, the author gives you different perspectives of the same technology platform. The first section introduces portal through multiple viewpoints to cater to a wide audience, including business, operations, development, integration, performance, and architecture views. The book details many novel and practically proven models and frameworks, such as portal value realization framework, portal assessment framework, portal evaluation model, portal infrastructure planning techniques, and portal integration techniques. You also learn about effective digital program strategies, including portal roadmap strategy, collaboration strategy, portal security planning, portal testing strategy, SEO, and analytics planning concepts. The second section dives into UXP and advanced topics. It elaborates on UXP design concepts, including UXP reference architecture, customer touch point analysis, user experience mapping, and responsive web design. It also looks at advanced topics, such as next-generation portals, portal trends, portal user experience strategy, omni-channel strategy, portal KPI, portal pitfalls and best practices, portal security, portal governance, digital program management, and portal performance engineering. In the third section, the book presents four case studies related to intranet portals, retail portals, customer service portals, and portal content management. It discusses business drivers, challenges, portal solutions, and solution benefits for each of the case studies. Written by a seasoned practitioner, this book balances the core topics of modern portals along with emerging technologies in the digital space. Suitable for the entire digital technology community, including IT managers, digital architects, developers, and testers, it provides you with a practical guide for successfully building best practices-based digital platforms with forward-looking features.

A hands-on guide to creating, monitoring, and tuning a high performance Spring web application Key Features Understand common performance pitfalls and improve your application's performance Build and deploy strategies for complex applications using the microservice architecture Understand internals of JVM - the core of all Java Runtime Environments Book Description While writing an application, performance is paramount. Performance tuning for real-world applications often involves activities geared toward detecting bottlenecks. The recent release of Spring 5.0 brings major advancements in the rich API provided by the Spring framework, which means developers need to master its tools and techniques to achieve high performance applications. Hands-On High Performance with Spring 5 begins with the Spring framework's core features, exploring the integration of different Spring projects. It proceeds to evaluate various Spring specifications to identify those adversely affecting performance. You will learn about bean wiring configurations, aspect-oriented programming, database interaction, and Hibernate to focus on the metrics that help identify performance bottlenecks. You will also look at application monitoring, performance optimization, JVM internals, and garbage collection optimization. Lastly, the book will show you how to leverage the microservice architecture to build a high performance and resilient application. By the end of the book, you will have gained an insight into various techniques and solutions to build and troubleshoot high performance Spring-based applications. What you will learn Master programming best practices and performance improvement with bean wiring Analyze the performance of various AOP implementations Explore database interactions with Spring to optimize design and configuration Solve Hibernate performance issues and traps Leverage multithreading and concurrent programming to improve application performance Gain a solid foundation in JVM performance tuning using various tools Learn the key concepts of the microservice architecture and how to monitor them Perform Spring Boot performance tuning, monitoring, and health checks Who this book is for If you’re a Spring developer who’d like to build high performance applications and have more control over your application's performance in production and development, this book is for you. Some familiarity with Java, Maven, and Eclipse is necessary.

Accelerate your enterprise search engine and bring relevancy in your search analytics Key Features A practical guide in building expertise with Indexing, Faceting, Clustering and Pagination Master the management and administration of Enterprise Search Applications and services seamlessly Handle multiple data inputs such as JSON, xml, pdf, doc, xls,ppt, csv and much more. Book Description Apache Solr is the only standalone enterprise search server with a REST-like application interface. providing highly scalable, distributed search and index replication for many of the world's largest internet sites. To begin with, you would be introduced to how you perform full text search, multiple filter search, perform dynamic clustering and so on helping you to brush up the basics of Apache Solr. You will also explore the new features and advanced options released in Apache Solr 7.x which will get you numerous performance aspects and making data investigation simpler, easier and powerful. You will learn to build complex queries, extensive filters and how are they compiled in your system to bring relevance in your search tools. You will learn to carry out Solr scoring, elements affecting the document score and how you can optimize or tune the score for the application at hand. You will learn to extract features of documents, writing complex queries in re-ranking the documents. You will also learn advanced options helping you to know what content is indexed and how the extracted content is indexed. Throughout the book, you would go through complex problems with solutions along with varied approaches to tackle your business needs. By the end of this book, you will gain advanced proficiency to build out-of-box smart search solutions for your enterprise demands. What you will learn Design schema using schema API to access data in the database Advance querying and fine-tuning techniques for better performance Get to grips with indexing using Client API Set up a fault tolerant and highly available server with newer distributed capabilities, SolrCloud Explore Apache Tika to upload data with Solr Cell Understand different data operations that can be done while indexing Master advanced querying through Velocity Search UI, faceting and Query Re-ranking, pagination and spatial search Learn to use JavaScript, Python, SolrJ and Ruby for interacting with Solr Who this book is for The book would rightly appeal to developers, software engineers, data engineers and database architects who are building or seeking to build enterprise-wide effective search engines for business intelligence. Prior experience of Apache Solr or Java programming is must to take the best of this book.

Uncover the power of MySQL 8 for Big Data About This Book Combine the powers of MySQL and Hadoop to build a solid Big Data solution for your organization Integrate MySQL with different NoSQL APIs and Big Data tools such as Apache Sqoop A comprehensive guide with practical examples on building a high performance Big Data pipeline with MySQL Who This Book Is For This book is intended for MySQL database administrators and Big Data professionals looking to integrate MySQL 8 and Hadoop to implement a high performance Big Data solution. Some previous experience with MySQL will be helpful, although the book will highlight the newer features introduced in MySQL 8. What You Will Learn Explore the features of MySQL 8 and how they can be leveraged to handle Big Data Unlock the new features of MySQL 8 for managing structured and unstructured Big Data Integrate MySQL 8 and Hadoop for efficient data processing Perform aggregation using MySQL 8 for optimum data utilization Explore different kinds of join and union in MySQL 8 to process Big Data efficiently Accelerate Big Data processing with Memcached Integrate MySQL with the NoSQL API Implement replication to build highly available solutions for Big Data In Detail With organizations handling large amounts of data on a regular basis, MySQL has become a popular solution to handle this structured Big Data. In this book, you will see how DBAs can use MySQL 8 to handle billions of records, and load and retrieve data with performance comparable or superior to commercial DB solutions with higher costs. Many organizations today depend on MySQL for their websites and a Big Data solution for their data archiving, storage, and analysis needs. However, integrating them can be challenging. This book will show you how to implement a successful Big Data strategy with Apache Hadoop and MySQL 8. It will cover real-time use case scenario to explain integration and achieve Big Data solutions using technologies such as Apache Hadoop, Apache Sqoop, and MySQL Applier. Also, the book includes case studies on Apache Sqoop and real-time event processing. By the end of this book, you will know how to efficiently use MySQL 8 to manage data for your Big Data applications. Style and approach Step by Step guide filled with real-world practical examples.

Build scalable, efficient, and highly available web apps using AWS About This Book Get an in-depth understanding of the serverless model Build a complete serverless web application end to end Learn how to use the Serverless Framework to improve your productivity Who This Book Is For If you're looking to learn more about scalable and cost-efficient architectures, this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Node.js skills or familiarity with cloud services is required. For other topics, we cover the basics. What You Will Learn Get a grasp of the pros and cons of going serverless and its use cases Discover how you can use the building blocks of AWS to your advantage Set up the environment and create a basic app with the Serverless Framework Host static files on S3 and CloudFront with HTTPS support Build a sample application with a frontend using React as an SPA Develop the Node.js backend to handle requests and connect to a SimpleDB database Secure your applications with authentication and authorization Implement the publish-subscribe pattern to handle notifications in a serverless application Create tests, define the workflow for deployment, and monitor your app In Detail This book will equip you with the knowledge needed to build your own serverless apps by showing you how to set up different services while making your application scalable, highly available, and efficient. We begin by giving you an idea of what it means to go serverless, exploring the pros and cons of the serverless model and its use cases. Next, you will be introduced to the AWS services that will be used throughout the book, how to estimate costs, and how to set up and use the Serverless Framework. From here, you will start to build an entire serverless project of an online store, beginning with a React SPA frontend hosted on AWS followed by a serverless backend with API Gateway and Lambda functions. You will also learn to access data from a SimpleDB database, secure the application with authentication and authorization, and implement serverless notifications for browsers using AWS IoT. This book will describe how to monitor the performance, efficiency, and errors of your apps and conclude by teaching you how to test and deploy your applications. Style and approach This book takes a step-by-step approach on how to use the Serverless Framework and AWS services to build Serverless Applications. It will give you a hands-on feeling, allowing you to practice while reading. It provides a brief introduction of concepts while keeping the focus on the practical skills required to develop applications.

Step by step guide to monitor, manage, and secure your database engine Key Features Your companion to master all the administration-related tasks in MySQL 8 Ensure high performance and high availability of your MySQL solution using effective replication and backup techniques A comprehensive guide to performing query optimization, security and a whole host of other administrative tasks in MySQL 8 Book Description MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the world today. The recently released version 8.0 brings along some major advancements in the way your MySQL solution can be administered. This handbook will be your companion to understand the newly introduced features in MySQL and how you can leverage them to design a high-performance MySQL solution for your organization. This book starts with a brief introduction to the newly introduced features in MySQL 8, followed by quickly jumping onto the crucial administration topics that you will find useful in your day to day work. Topics such as migrating to MySQL 8, MySQL benchmarking, achieving high performance by implementing the indexing techniques, and optimizing your queries are covered in this book. You will also learn how to perform replication, scale your MySQL solution and implement effective security techniques. A special section on the common and not so common troubleshooting techniques for effective MySQL administration is also covered in this book. By the end of this highly practical book, you will have all the knowledge you need to tackle any problem you might encounter while administering your MySQL solution. What you will learn Understanding different MySQL 8 data types based on type of contents and storage requirements Best practices for optimal use of features in MySQL 8 Explore globalization configuration and caching techniques to improve performance Create custom storage engine as per system requirements Learn various ways of index implementation for flash memory storages Configure and implement replication along with approaches to use replication as solution Understand how to make your MySQL 8 solution highly available Troubleshoot common issues and identify error codes while using MySQL 8 Who this book is for This book is intended for MySQL administrators who are looking for a handy guide covering all the MySQL administration-related tasks. If you are a DBA looking to get started with MySQL administration, this book will also help you. Knowledge of the basic database concepts is required to get started with this book.

Part of Packt's Beginner's Guide series, each chapter follows the creation of a fictional neighbourhood site to demonstrate an aspect of Liferay portal with practical examples, screenshots, and step-by-step instructions. All you need in order to benefit from the Liferay Beginner's Guide is programming experience. No prior knowledge of Liferay is required, although experienced Liferay portal programmers who need to get up to speed with its latest features will also find this book useful.