Capability 05
Performance & Governance
Keep AEM fast, secure, and maintainable at enterprise scale — Dispatcher tuning, Oak indexing, cache strategies, author governance, and role-based access control.
Overview
What this covers
Launch day performance is table stakes. Sustained performance under traffic spikes, content growth, and organizational change requires operational discipline — the layer most implementations neglect until something breaks.
We tune Dispatcher cache rules, CDN configurations, and Oak/Lucene indexes to match your actual traffic patterns and content structure. Query performance, replication lag, and publish-tier response times are measured and optimized with data, not guesswork.
Author governance — workflows, permissions, content policies, and approval chains — prevents the content sprawl and configuration drift that slow down enterprise AEM deployments over time.
In depth
How we deliver it
Caching & delivery performance
Sub-second page loads under real-world traffic.
- Dispatcher cache rules and invalidation strategy
- CDN configuration (Fastly, Akamai, CloudFront)
- Client-side and server-side cache headers
- Edge Delivery Services optimization
- Performance benchmarking and load testing
Oak & repository tuning
Repository performance that scales with content volume.
- Oak index definition and reindex planning
- Query optimization and slow query analysis
- Tar compaction and maintenance scheduling
- Asset storage and blob optimization
- Replication queue monitoring and tuning
Governance & access control
Structured authoring that prevents chaos at scale.
- Role-based access control (RBAC) design
- Workflow and approval chain configuration
- Content policies and component restrictions
- Author group management and onboarding
- Audit logging and compliance reporting
Deliverables
What you receive
- Performance audit report with benchmarks
- Dispatcher and CDN configuration documentation
- Oak index definitions and maintenance schedule
- Governance playbook and RBAC matrix
- Monitoring dashboard and alert thresholds
Outcomes
What changes
- Publish tier response times under target SLAs
- Cache hit ratios optimized for traffic patterns
- Authors work within governed workflows
- Repository performance stable as content grows
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