Tag: performance engineering

Of Max and Min: The Non-Interference Prime Directive (for Visibility)
Last issue, I cited CPU utilization as an example of a metric that is often misused to describe/explain/infer system performance and asserted that improved visibility can help to overcome such misuse. In ...

Of Max and Min: When Performance Engineering Plans Go Awry
Modern software developers have access to powerful tools and services which allow them to quickly develop, demo and deploy fully functional applications. But what happens when the single-user prototype satisfies all required ...

Incorporating Performance Engineering into DevOps
Performance testing historically has been a challenge for most IT organizations. It is highly misunderstood, from executives down to the few resources allocated to perform an extremely difficult task. Most companies consider ...