Improved Liferay Enterprise Application Performance by Removing GSA Integration

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Improve Liferay Enterprise Application
Performance by Removing GSA Integration
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Intro

• The optimum performance of any business-critical
  application demands excessive attention from
  techies and time-to-time optimization also play
  significant role keeping the applications
  performance at its best. Recently, I explored a
  possibility of optimizing a full functioning
  Liferay application simply through removing a
  technology tool Google Search Appliances (GSA)
  from it. This blog details out the primary
  objectives and impacts for the same.
• The Liferay application provides domain specific
  scientific data to its users based on the
  predefined search criteria and parameters.
  Performance optimization was required for aspects
  such as content uploading time and page loading
  time. The application accommodates massive amount
  of contents in various forms searchable through
  excessive flexible search function. Both Google
  Search Appliances (GSA) and Apache Solr were
  integrated as the search engines for indexing as
  well as front end displaying of the data.

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Why Manual Testing is More Important than the
Automation Testing?

• Though GSA can certainly be considered as one of
  the best available tools to furnish the result
  relevancy, we decided to remove it so that we can
  explore
• If Apache Solr can handle the desired definitions
  of search functions or not
• Using single search engine can improve the
  performance of the application or not

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While removing integration of GSA, we paid extra
attention to the following criteria

• Scalability of the application
• Content processing
• Data indexing
• Query functionalities
• Search relevancy
• Security
• Administration maintenance

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 Advantages of removing GSA

• 1 Saving of time in uploading contents As one
  entire layer of indexing is removed from
  application, adequate amount of time can be saved
  while uploading the contents. Earlier, the in
  general time for uploading contents was about 8
  to 30 minutes. It decreased up to 2 to 5 minutes,
  even when the content get pushed from staging
  environment to PROD environment
• 2 Performance improvement Overall page loading
  time decreased up to 20-50
• 3 Cost Saving GSA is a paid tool and for this
  application, its annual cost was around 50,000

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Conclusion

• I believe removing the integration of GSA turned
  out to be an enriching experience. We also
  developed certain specific features to match with
  precise requirement of the applications search
  function attainable through Apache Solr. We could
  notice statistically verified improvement in
  almost each aspect of the applications
  performance parameter providing an undisrupted
  search experience to internal as well as external
  users.

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