The Ultimate Guide to Liferay DXP Performance Tuning: Speed Up Your Portal In the enterprise web space, milliseconds equal millions. Whether you are running a B2B commerce storefront, a customer support portal, or an employee intranet on Liferay DXP, slow load times will devastate your user experience and destroy your SEO rankings. Out of the box, Liferay is configured to run on almost any machine. This means its default settings are highly conservative to ensure compatibility, not maximum performance. If you are launching a production environment without tuning your server, you are leaving massive amounts of speed and scalability on the table. In this comprehensive, deep-dive guide, we are going to explore the critical layers of Liferay performance tuning. We will cover backend Java Virtual Machine (JVM) configuration, Database Connection Pooling, Elasticsearch optimization, and Frontend caching strategies. By the end of this guide, you will have a blazing-fast, enterprise-grade...
A Beginner's Guide to Liferay APIs: Fetching Data with Simple JavaScript If you have been working with Liferay, you already know it is an incredible platform for managing content, building websites, and organizing user data. But what happens when you want to take the data stored inside Liferay and show it on a completely different, external website? For example, what if you have a simple HTML landing page, and you want to display the latest news articles from your Liferay portal right on that page? In the past, doing this required complex server-side coding and a deep understanding of Java. Today, thanks to Liferay's Headless APIs , you can accomplish this using basic HTML and a little bit of JavaScript. In this comprehensive, beginner-friendly guide, we are going to learn what an API is, how Liferay handles them, and how to write the code to connect your external page to your Liferay database. Understanding the Basics: What is an API? Before we look at the code, le...