Getting your components and applications to work correctly is only half the battle—you also need to ensure that the application performs acceptably. In this chapter, we'll look at the goals of performance validation, as well as the overall process. We'll also examine some of the ways you can tune the performance of your components and applications.
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This chapter does not provide a comprehensive discussion of techniques for tuning every aspect of a distributed application environment; for references to additional information, see the bibliography.