Performance Tuning Apache Tomcat for Production

posted by SpringSource on April 8, 2010 12:06 PM

For development and operations teams, a presentation that covers performance tuning Tomcat and the JVM alongside configuration options, load balancing, and more.

In this webinar, Apache Tomcat committers Mark Thomas and Filip Hanik discuss performance tuning Apache Tomcat for your production environment. This webinar focuses on Tuning Tomcat and the JVM to correctly handle your application including usage patterns, hardware and network topology. You’ll learn when and how to apply the different tuning and configuration options as well as understanding load balancers and how they can impact your configuration settings. Also discussed: the impact of clustering and replication on your environment.

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Presentation Agenda:

• Review
• Logging
• TCP and HTTP in Performance
• Load Balancing
• Tuning Connectors
• Content Delivery and Caching
• Tuning the JVM
• Q&A

Presentation Outline:

• About
• Tomcat Versions
• Agenda
• Review - The Process
• Review - Availability
• Apache Tomcat in Production
• Production Logging
• TCP
• TCP: Session Based
• TCP: Stateful protocol
• TCP: flow control
• TCP: No Keep-Alive
• TCP: Keep-Alive
• TCP: Summary
• HTTP
• HTTPS
• Load Balancing: TCP/HTTP, Algorithms, HTTPS
• Which Connector
• Tuning Threads
• Tuning keep alive
• Tuning TCP backlog
• Tuning timeouts
• Content delivery
• JVM Tuning: The Ideal
• JVM Tuning: Memory
• JVM Tuning: GC
• JVM Tuning: Try it out
• SpringSource: Products and Services
• Apache Tomcat Support
• Thank You

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