Performance engineering and enhancement
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Insight: Is Performance Engineering Primarily a Business Issue?
By Bruno Calver
The rigmarole of Performance Engineering can be made meaningful by articulating the capacity requirements of business more succinctly. Not only would it help the execution team to prioritize business needs but also bring about pecuniary benefits if properly implemented, contends the author.
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Opinion: Avoiding Performance Engineering Pitfalls
By Sathya Narayanan Nagarajan and Sundaravadivelu Vajravelu
How does one mitigate performance engineering risks especially when commercial grade enterprise applications exact complex server infrastructure? The authors opine that a holistic approach must be adopted to safely circumvent such risks.
Model: Addressing Challenges in Gathering Performance Requirements
By Rajib Das Sharma and Ashutosh Shinde
Quality concerns should not be considered ad hoc plug-ins. The authors feel that quality needs to be in-built and made an integral part of the software development lifecycle.
Practitioner's Solution: How to Design High Performance Integration Solution?
By Arun Kumar
Ensuring harmonious individual applications within an enterprise can be a difficult proposition given the frequent changes in high performance IT scenarios. The author suggests that assumptions must be strongly defined to achieve all-weather robust solutions.
Viewpoint: Leveraging Enterprise Application Frameworks to address QoS Concerns
By Shyam Kumar Doddavula and Brijesh Deb
In a rapidly changing business scenario, proactiveness in managing Quality of Service (QoS) concerns such as performance, scalability, and availability is a must to sustain competition. In this paper, the authors explain how adoption of an enterprise-wide applications framework manages QoS concerns.
Case Study: Performance Engineering in ETL: A Proactive Approach
By Hari Shankar Sudhakaran and Anaga Mahadevan
A few performance checkpoints are all that it takes to enhance and optimize ETL processes. Every stage of the software lifecycle, if reviewed through the lens of statistical tools, can reveal some not-so-apparent yet obvious issues, according to the authors.
Framework: Integrating Performance Engineering Services into Enterprise Quality Framework
In this paper, the authors discuss a comprehensive 'A to F' approach that leaves no stone unturned in a performance engineering process. They suggest that organizations need to look beyond the functional design of an application and plan for high performance in a live production process.
Case Study: An Agile Approach to Performance Tuning
By Shailesh Bhate, Rajat Gupta, Manoj Macwan and Sandip Jaju
Drawing from their experience in delivering PE solutions in agile environments, the authors showcase a sprint methodology that employs a 'stop, check and go' approach to tune performance.
Spotlight: Server Consolidation: Leveraging the Benefits of Virtualization
By Manogna Chebiyyam, Rashi Malviya, Sumit Kumar Bose Ph.D and Srikanth Sundarrajan
Data centers can be made to perform to their potential by keeping a close watch on application usage patterns. A better way to enhance performance is to consolidate them in the most intelligent manner - virtualization. In this paper, the authors draw out infrastructure optimization algorithms to improve the performance of data centers.
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The Last Word: Tide Tough Times with Performance-driven Development
By Rajinder Gandotra
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