How well a website 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.
- Take advantage of
performance functions to improve performance. You can use functions such as balancing workloads with clusters and
using the dynamic cache to improve performance.