Chapter 19. Performance tuning considerations with Decision Server

The following key concepts or suggested practices can help you optimize Decision Server performance. These concepts are summarized in this section as a convenience and are explained in more detail in the cross-referenced documentation, where applicable. This section will expand or change as needed with new releases of Red Hat Decision Manager.

Ensure that development mode is enabled during development

You can set Decision Server or specific projects in Business Central to use production mode or development mode. By default, Decision Server and all new projects in Business Central are in development mode. This mode provides features that facilitate your development experience, such as flexible project deployment policies, and features that optimize Decision Server performance during development, such as disabled duplicate GAV detection. Use development mode until your Red Hat Decision Manager environment is established and completely ready for production mode.

For more information about configuring the environment mode or duplicate GAV detection, see the following resources:

Adapt Decision Server capabilities and extensions to your specific needs

The capabilities in Decision Server are determined by plug-in extensions that you can enable, disable, or further extend to meet your business needs. By default, Decision Server extensions are exposed through REST or JMS data transports and use predefined client APIs. You can extend existing Decision Server capabilities with additional REST endpoints, extend supported transport methods beyond REST or JMS, or extend functionality in the Decision Server client.

This flexibility in Decision Server functionality enables you to adapt your Decision Server instances to your business needs, instead of adapting your business needs to the default Decision Server capabilities.

For information about enabling, disabling, or extending Decision Server capabilities, see Chapter 18, Decision Server capabilities and extensions.