In the previous chapter, you learned how to analyze your requirements to plan ahead in order to move your geographic data as a service. You have acquired the skills necessary to design the GIS services into models that are ready to be deployed. With the toolset you acquired in the previous chapters, you know how to author and publish the services you design. You have learned how to consume these services from different end points. You have even written your own code to do that. Now that you've got the services up and running, it is time to manage them and make them run efficiently. After the GIS services are deployed, they usually start with a few megabytes of memory and as the consumption increases, the GIS server scoops out more and more memory for these services. Sadly, we have limited memory and processing power, so we have to distribute the GIS server's resources efficiently to those services that really need it.

In this chapter, you will learn three...