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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- 4 Mar 26
Java 25 is Here — Try It Today
Give your dotCMS a test drive on modern Java. Our new Java 25-based containers are live, easy to spin up with a single Docker command, and already showing faster startup, leaner memory use, and a stronger security footing. In this post, I’ll walk you through how to try the `java-25` images locally, what to expect from the upgrade, how to rebuild your plugins in a few minutes, and why we’re asking you to kick the tires now, long before Java 11 support sunsets.
- 3 Mar 26
Driving Content Innovation: Our 2026 Roadmap
Join VP of Product Freddy Montes for a walk through of the exciting things dotCMS is working on in 2026
- 1 Mar 26
Headless dotCMS Quick Start : Introducing dotCMS create app CLI
Learn how to bootstrap a headless CMS project with Next.js using @dotcms/create-app CLI. Skip documentation overload and render your first content in minutes.
- 20 Feb 26
Content Style Editor: Visual Design Control Inside Your CMS
Eliminate developer bottlenecks with the dotCMS Content Style Editor, empowering content teams to instantly customize component styling, improve content reuse, and accelerate publishing without code.
- 13 Feb 26
How to Implement a dotAI Site Search Widget in dotCMS (Step-by-Step Guide)
Step-by-step guide to implementing a dotAI site search widget in dotCMS. Learn how to create secure API tokens, configure VTL files, add AI-powered search to pages, and customize indexes for better content discovery.
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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.
Reducing IT Dependencies with dotCMS Cloud
Learn how Northwest College stays up-to-date on the latest dotCMS upgrades and security fixes without overtaxing IT resources.
Being on the Cloud has been a lifesaver for me. I try to upgrade our dotCMS instance at least once a year and the support I get from dotCMS to do that is critical. I couldn’t do it on my own.