Reducing Bottlenecks
Any long-time server administrator managing Jenkins will have their Jenkins battle stories where wide-reaching critical problems occurred within infrastructure and they swooped in to save the day with the perseverance to meet problems head-on and fix them. Sometimes, fixes can be temporary workarounds, and other times permanent fixes are available. Whatever the case you'll encounter, this chapter hopes to battle-harden you for your journey ahead by taking lessons learned from other Jenkins administrators and sharing these experiences.
A word of caution
Before diving too deep into this chapter on Jenkins performance and bottlenecks, please bear in mind to not prematurely optimize. Some optimizations can be delayed until you actually start experiencing performance issues, so it's important not to over-engineer your setup if you don't need to.
It is also worth noting that every year since 2011, Jenkins has several global...