16.6 Key factors for application performance
This part discusses factors that are critical for high-performance WAS based applications. However, a prerequisite is to ensure that your application has a good design and architecture. The techniques and strategies outlined here will assist you in optimizing the performance of your applications. However, they will not compensate for a poorly designed or architected application. The best practices should be applied after verifying that the basic design and architecture are appropriate for the application and scalable. For application design guidelines, please start reading from the beginning of this chapter.