I've taken the opportunity to meet David Nebinger, the most prolific forum poster and blogger for Liferay. And as we both are often stumbling about similar questions - in the community as well as on our job - we've been talking about exactly those ever repeating questions.

Here are some of the topics that we talked about:

• David's history with Liferay, reaching back to version 4.x
• Should I use an ext-plugin and what problem does it seem to solve? (TL;DR: No)
• 10:35 Should I make changes to the database? (TL;DR: No)
  • But... I need to add a column to the built-in tables...
  • Liferay's Expando API (Custom Fields)
  • What changes to the database might do to your future upgrades
  • The alternative to change data directly
• Fake Entities (a ServiceBuilder feature that was of good use in earlier versions but is now well superceded by just standard OSGi Declarative Services)
• Things Liferay won't say. Full article, well worth a read
  • What Appserver should I use?
  • How should I build my portlets?
  • What database should I use?
• Why doesn't Liferay tell me how to size my cluster?
• Devcon 2019:
  • David's upcoming presentation on "Programmatically loading your site with content"
  • His interest in Headless features of Liferay
  • His recommendation to come to the Unconference
• How to come up with the topics for David's blog articles, and what's in his queue
• Why should I use ServiceBuilder?
• More reasons to come to Devcon ;)

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