Ensuring Highly Available and Responsive Applications in a Globalized, Digitalized and Post-Pandemic era
Best practices in performance engineering to achieve a lowered TCO and higher customer experience
The proliferation of smartphones and greater availability of the internet has accelerated the adoption of digital technologies both by businesses and consumers. COVID-19 has further necessitated consumers to rely more on online and digital technologies, enabling social distancing, getting information and updates, and staying safe. The increased reliance on online channels will continue even after the pandemic abates and this brings new challenges for businesses and performance engineering teams.
With the sudden spike in the number of users accessing applications, website availability, and application response time, it has become crucial to evaluate customer experience and loyalty. Poor speed and non-availability of an application can turn away impatient and anxious customers. The cost of downtime, defects, and bugs can be massive. The importance of application performance management, application performance testing, and software performance engineering through an open-source framework that proactively identifies bottlenecks and provides performance metrics in real-time cannot be overstated.
This white paper examines:
- The role of performance engineering in ensuring that business applications remain available and responsive
- Best practices in performance engineering
- Simulated testing for load, stress, endurance, and volume
- Simplifying the test lab setup
- Leveraging an open-source framework
- Application performance monitoring
