This podcast brings you information about Liferay, the people, the product, the project and the company. I'm getting in contact with lots of people involved with Liferay around the world.
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RL070 Bryan Cheung
A repeat guest - today I've talked to one member of my team, Bryan Cheung.
Bryan was part of my welcome committee when I started working for Liferay in 2010, and that's where we start the conversation.
- Bryan is one of Liferay's founders, and serves as CEO, out of the US office close to Los Angeles.
- Bryan's secret project that he announced at Devcon was finally released in May
- How do you turn a 4 person company into a 1000 person company, keeping sanity, personality and culture?
- How publishing OpenSource software fits into the strategy
- Liferay's announcement of an Enterprise Edition in 2008, and the promise made then, to keep the Open Source release alive and kicking
- How recommendations, focus, and attention to environments developed from application servers & databases and
- Bryan actively encourages contributions - editing took a bit longer, so the call for submissions for /dev/24 is already over: If the agenda still has some holes - check if you can still offer your knowledge. The submission form is still there.
- For a while now, Liferay offers more than just one product. Bryan talks about the heritage and reasons to start with DXP Cloud, Commerce and Analytics Cloud - and which problems they solve.
- I force Bryan to pick a 7.3 feature to describe, in preparation for /dev/24 - we'll see who explains it in detail during the livestream - and if he got it right
- We can't go without mentioning the Covid times (briefly)
- Bryan turns the table and asks about my experience (in which I can't go without plugging /dev/24 one more time)