There are potential pitfalls associated with each approach to scaling Jenkins, but with careful planning, many of them can be avoided or managed.

Launch Java Web Start slave agent via Windows Scheduler ... Jenkins Scalability Summit 2013 ... How I setup Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, Nginx for 1 master with linux, ...

"Installing slave as Windows service" feature was broken since 1.272 (issue 2886); Top level People page showed no project information since 1.269. (report) ...