Speedup unspeedable

    A few days ago i have got some well know e-commerce platform to speed up it. Application use hibernate, solr, spring and spring mvc with apache velocity as view and look like very over optimised, cached everything, that possible. It cached solr results, hibernate use second level cache, web tier use etag, etc. I was frustrated, because no easy way to boost performance. After several hours of investigation some bright idea came to me - if solution cache the result of named query, why not cache the result of page rendering for most very popular pages product and category views ? Of cause not all pages can be cached !
   To achive good result need to hack the VelocityLayoutView. Create a derived class put rendering result into cache. Solution became two times faster. Guess not a bad result.

   1:  public class DerivedVelocityLayoutView extends VelocityLayoutView {

   2:   

   3:  // skipped

   4:   

   5:      private oncurrentMap<String, String> cache;

   6:   

   7:  // skipped

   8:   

   9:      /**

  10:       * Default constructor.

  11:       */

  12:      public DerivedVelocityLayoutView() {

  13:          super();

  14:          this.requestHelper = new RequestHelperImpl();

  15:          this.cache = new MapMaker()

  16:              .concurrencyLevel(16)

  17:              .softValues()

  18:              .expiration(3, TimeUnit.MINUTES)

  19:              .makeMap();

  20:      }

  21:   

  22:  // skipped

  23:   

  24:  /**

  25:       * The resulting context contains any mappings from render, plus screen content.

  26:       * @param velocityContext context.

  27:       * @throws Exception in case of exception

  28:       */

  29:      private void renderScreenContent(final Context velocityContext) throws Exception {

  30:   

  31:          if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {

  32:              logger.debug("Rendering screen content template [" + getUrl() + "]");

  33:          }

  34:   

  35:          final HttpServletRequest servletRequest = (HttpServletRequest) velocityContext.get("request");

  36:          final String key = getKey(velocityContext);

  37:   

  38:          String renderedPage = cache.get(key);

  39:          if (renderedPage == null) {

  40:              StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();

  41:              Template screenContentTemplate = getTemplate(getUrl());

  42:              screenContentTemplate.merge(velocityContext, sw);

  43:              renderedPage = sw.toString();

  44:              if (isCacheAllowed(servletRequest.getRequestURI())) {

  45:                  cache.put(key, renderedPage);

  46:                  if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {

  47:                      logger.debug("Cache miss  " + key);

  48:                  }

  49:              }

  50:          } else {

  51:              if (logger.isDebugEnabled()) {

  52:                  logger.debug("Cache hit   " + key);

  53:              }

  54:          }

  55:          // Put rendered content into Velocity context.

  56:          velocityContext.put(this.screenContentKey, renderedPage);

  57:      }

  58:   

  59:  // skipped

  60:   

  61:  }

  62: