Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices. To maximize the performance of your Liferay Portals you need to acquire best practices. By the end of this

Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices. To maximize the performance of your Liferay Portals you need to acquire best practices. By the end of this - Opis

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 (...) więcej 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. Spis treści:
Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices
Table of Contents
Liferay Portal Performance Best Practices
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Architectural Best Practices
The Liferay Portal reference architecture
The Presentation tier
The Networking tier
The Web tier
The Application tier
The Database Repository tier
The Search Repository tier
The Media Repository tier
The Active Directory tier
Reference architecture characteristics
Scalability
Performance
High availability and fault tolerance
Security
The Deployment sizing approach
The reference hardware
The performance benchmark test summary
An example of sizing calculations
Sample performance requirements
Sizing calculations
The Documents and Media Library architecture
File System and Advanced File System stores
The Database store
The JCR store
The CMIS store
The S3 store
The database architecture
The read/write database
Database sharding
Static content delivery
Content Delivery Network
Content delivery through the web server
The caching architecture
Caching using Ehcache
Ehcache replication using RMI
Ehcache replication using Cluster Link
Caching using Terracotta
Web resource caching using Varnish
The search architecture
Apache Lucene
Index storage on SAN
Lucene Index replication using Cluster Link
Apache Solr
Summary
2. Load Balancing and Clustering Best Practices
The basics of load balancing and clustering with Liferay
Setting up Liferay Portal nodes
Software load balancer configuration using the Apache Web Server
Load balancer configuration using mod_jk
Load balancer configuration using mod_proxy_ajp
Load balancer configuration using mod_proxy_http
Load balancing best practices
Liferay Portal cluster configuration
Session replication configuration
Cache replication
Ehcache replication using RMI
Ehcache configuration using JGroups
Ehcache replication using Cluster Links
Ehcache clustering best practices
Media Library configuration
Network file storage using the Advanced File System store
Database storage using the JCR store
Database storage using DBStore
Media Library clustering best practices
Search engine configuration
Lucene index storage on network storage
Lucene index replication using Cluster Link
Using the Apache Solr search engine
Clustering best practices for the search engine
Quartz scheduler configuration
Summary
3. Configuration Best Practices
Liferay Portal configuration best practices
Servlet filter configuration
The auto login filter
The CAS filter
The NTLM SSO filter
The OpenSSO filter
The SharePoint filter
The GZip filter
The Strip filter
The ValidHtml filter
Auto login hooks
Counter increment
User session tracker
Direct Servlet Context
Plugin repositories
Pingbacks and trackbacks
Googles blog search ping integration
The asset view counter
Document ranks and view count
Scheduler configuration
The Calendar portlet
LDAP integration
The Web Content portlet
The Message Board portlet
The Blogs portlet
The Media Library portlet
The Announcement portlet
Inline permission checks
Lucene Configuration
Application Server configuration best practices
Database connection pool configuration
JVM configuration
Garbage Collection
The Java Heap configuration
JSP engine configuration
Thread pool configuration
Apache Web Server configuration best practices
Static content delivery
GZip compression configuration
Cache header configuration
Apache Web Server MPM configuration
Summary
4. Caching Best Practices
Customizing the Ehcache configuration
Hibernate Ehcache CacheManager
Single-VM CacheManager
Multi-VM CacheManager
Ehcache configuration best practices
Caching using Terracotta
Summary
5. Development Best Practices
UI best practices
Reducing the number of JavaScript files
Reducing the number of CSS files
Using CSS image sprites
Minifying JavaScript files
JavaScript positioning
Limiting the use of DOM operations
Analyzing web page performance using tools
Portlet development best practices
Limiting the use of dynamic queries
Liferay caching API
Coding best practices
Summary
6. Load Testing and Performance Tuning
Getting ready for load testing
Capturing load testing requirements
Selecting load testing tools
Apache JMeter
BlazeMeter
Apache Benchmark (ab)
Preparing load testing scripts
Setting up the load testing environment
Conducting load tests
Resource monitoring and performance tuning
Liferay Portal server monitoring and tuning
JConsole
VisualVM
JVM monitoring and tuning
Tomcat thread monitoring and tuning
Database connection pool monitoring and tuning
Cache monitoring and tuning
Apache web server monitoring and tuning
Monitoring the database server
CPU and memory usage
Slow queries
Connections
Lock monitoring
Monitoring logfiles
Summary
Index O autorze: Samir Bhatt is an Enterprise Architect with over 12 years of IT experience. He has been working on Liferay-Portal-based solutions for the last four years. He has co-authored a book, Liferay Beginner's Guide by Packt Publishing. He is also a Liferay certified trainer and has delivered public and private training across the world. Samir leads an architectural group at CIGNEX Datamatics. He extensively worked on performance tuning of Liferay-Portal-based solutions. Apart from Liferay Portal, Samir has also worked on many other technologies and frameworks including Hadoop, MongoDB, Pentaho BI, Oracle, Java Swing, ICEfaces, ZK, Spring, Hibernate, and Visual Basic.Samir is also a very good speaker and has delivered various webinars on Liferay, Pentaho BI, and MongoDB. He blogs at www.connect-sam.com. mniej