Chapter 6. Best Practices
This chapter covers the various best practices for category 1, category 2, and category 3 Java platforms:
Category 1 (large number of JVMs): In this category, hundreds to thousands of Java Virtual Machines (JVM) are commonly deployed on the Java platform, and these are typically JVMs as part of a system that may be servicing millions of users. I have seen some customers with as many as 15,000 JVMs. Whenever you are dealing with thousands of JVM instances, you have to consider the manageability cost and whether opportunities exist to consolidate the JVM instances.
Category 2 (JVMs with a large heap size): This category ...
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