How well a Web site performs while receiving heavy user traffic
is an essential factor in the overall success of an organization. This section
provides online resources that you can consult to ensure that your site performs
well under pressure.
Procedure
- Consult the following Web resources for learning.
- IBM
Patterns for e-Business
IBM Patterns for e-business is a group of reusable assets that can
help speed the process of developing Web-based applications. The patterns
leverage the experience of IBM architects to create solutions quickly, whether
for a small local business or a large multinational enterprise.
- Planning for availability in the enterprise
Availability is an achievable service-level characteristic that every
enterprise struggles with. The worst case scenario is realized when load is
underestimated or bandwidth is overloaded because availability planning was
not carefully conducted. Applying the information in this article and the
accompanying spreadsheet to your planning exercises can help you avoid such
a scenario.
- Hardware configurations for WebSphere Application Server production
environments
- This article describes the most common production hardware configurations,
and provides the reasons for choosing each one. It begins with a single machine
configuration, and then proceeds with additional configurations that have
higher fault tolerance, horizontal scaling, and a separation of Web and enterprise
bean servers.
- See the documentation for the product
functionality to improve performance .