Planning for performance

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.

• Consult the following web resources for learning.

  Patterns for e-business: Application design

  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.

  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.