RL070 Bryan Cheung

A repeat guest - today I've talked to one member of my team, Bryan Cheung.
Bryan was start of my welcome committee when I started working for Liferay in 2010, and that's where we start the conversation.

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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)