Taking advantage of performance functions
This topic highlights a few main ways you can improve performance through a combination of product features and application development considerations.
Procedure
- Use WAS functionality to improve performance.
- Balancing workloads with clusters
Clusters are sets of servers that are managed together and participate in workload management. The servers that are members of a cluster can be on different host machines, as opposed to the servers that are part of the same node and must be located on the same host machine. A cell can have no clusters, one cluster, or multiple clusters.
- Task overview: Using the dynamic cache service to improve performance
The dynamic cache service improves performance by caching the output of servlets, commands, and JavaServer Pages files. Dynamic caching features include cache replication among clusters, cache disk offload, Edge-side include caching, and external caching, which is the ability to control caches outside of the appserver, such as that of your Web server.
- Ensure your applications perform well. Details are available in the following topics:
- Application design consideration (architectural suggestions)
- Designing applications (coding best practices)