Thanks Ratna and Scott!

Is there any advantage to overlaying components than just extending them using sling:resourceSuperType? Overlay allows you to copy over libs components to apps and changing them without affecting the original component. Doesn't extending the component also allow the same - you can just overwrite the...

Are dynamic templates meant to be a replacement of static templates? If not, are there any guidelines as to which of the two template types are to be used depending on the requirement at hand? - mainly asking from the point of view of the layout of a page. Any limitations of dynamic templates that'l...

Thanks Ravi. Info in that link was useful.But one thing is still not clear.. Do you see any reason to back up aem repo before large (or even smaller ones) package uploads? Any repo inconsistencies that it can lead to?

Hello, Will uploading large packages (~500mb) with thousands of pages using package manager and installing them cause any issues - like corrupt the repository? It it a good idea to back up the repository before the upload?Or is it fully safe and can be carried out without any precautions?

nvm, one thing I missed was that sling mappings also cause links in the rendered html markup to be shortened. In the 2nd approach of using web server rewrites, you'd have to do the extra work of writing a custom link transformer to do this job. I'll mark this as the answer unless someone disagrees.

I was referring to this guide which explains 2 different approaches to setting up dispatcher for multi domain sites hosted on the same AEM repo: Using Dispatcher with Multiple Domains The two approaches in short:1. Use AEM sling url mappings for rewriting the shortened domain URLs to full repo paths...

Both these answers are helpful. Thanks a lot.

Is there any guideline or a suite of performance tests generally executed to arrive at the number of publisher instances or hosts for a site? Any suggestions or standard practices around that?

This is really great. Thanks a lot.