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WildFly Performance Tuning - Third Edition
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WildFly Performance Tuning - Third Edition

by Arnold Johansson, Anders Welén
June 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
330 pages
7h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 1. The Science of Performance Tuning

There are many definitions of science. However, the most common definition is the systematic gathering and organization of knowledge. This refers to knowledge that, apart from its original purpose, can be used for further explorations of even more, and possibly further detailed, knowledge. Gaining new knowledge often involves validating theorems or ideas through experiments and tests. When a test has been validated or falsified, some things can be changed, or tuned, and the test can be performed again in order to gather more knowledge about what is going on in certain environments or situations.

As we will see, this approach of searching for knowledge in science is directly transferable to the improvement ...

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ISBN: 9781783980567