Performance & Scalability
Engineered for Performance, Built to Scale
Power your digital experiences with an enterprise-grade CMS, designed for performance, scalability, and flexibility and built on trusted technologies that will grow with your business.
How It Works
dotCMS is powered by a foundation of solid and trusted enterprise technologies, ensuring the stability, scalability, and performance needed for the most demanding use cases.
Enterprise Technology
Enterprise Technology
The core of our platform is built on rock-solid technologies including:
- J2EE frameworks that deliver enterprise performance, security and scalability
- Elasticsearch for rapid content retrieval
- PostgresSQL to ensure data integrity and reliable transactions
- Kubernetes for automated deployment and scaling
Publishing Architecture
Publishing Architecture
Designed for enterprise platform architectures, dotCMS will design your publishing architecture and environment capacity based on your use case, and optimize for sites where performance matters the most.
Content Delivery Network
Content Delivery Network
Deliver instant access and maximum content performance everywhere by integrating dotCMS with an enterprise-grade CDN that will give you global coverage at scale. dotCMS has a globally scalable and secure CDN out of the box, or you can integrate your own CDN such as CloudFront. Ensure a fast, seamless experience for users--no matter where they are.
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- 6 Jun 26
Supercharged Visual Editing with the Real Time Canvas
Content teams have always been limited by their content editor. With the UVE Real-Time Canvas, that changes — page layout management, inline editing, and canvas control all come together in a faster, more visual experience that helps content teams get content to market faster and easier.
- 4 Jun 26
Two Kinds of FDEs: One Is a Sign of Progress, the Other is a Sign of Failure
Everyone is talking about Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) as the future of enterprise AI. But not all FDEs are solving the same problem. Some exist because products can't survive real-world enterprise complexity. Others exist because transformation itself is hard. In this article, Zain Ishaq explores the difference, why the distinction matters for enterprise buyers, and what AI, governance, content architecture, and deployment readiness have to do with the success or failure of enterprise AI initiatives.
- 1 Jun 26
IT Cost Reduction Strategies: How Headless CMS Reduces IT Overhead
Reduce IT overhead with proven cost reduction strategies: consolidate tools, optimize cloud spend, automate workflows, and avoid vendor lock-in. Learn how a headless CMS like dotCMS simplifies infrastructure, speeds delivery, and scales omnichannel content with fewer integrations.
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Success stories from teams building what’s next
Real teams. Real outcomes. Explore how organizations modernized their digital stacks, reduced operational load, and delivered better customer experiences with dotCMS.
How Junior Achievement created a centralized system for managing region-specific sites and content
With over 470,000 volunteers across the world serving 10 million students, Junior Achievement needed a robust platform to deliver highly targeted content across devices and countries.
We needed the ability to fire up another site or document repository [at any moment], and because we keep adding to our digital presence, we needed the ability to add sites very quickly, but at the same time, to keep everything clean and organized.