January 20, 2020

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Continuous performance engineering: Moving fast without breaking things

Continuous performance engineering: Moving fast without breaking things

With ever-increasing demands for fast business change, how can we ensure our digital channels reflect the exacting standards of performance our customers (and business owners) expect? What does this look like in an age of DevOps and continuous delivery? Thomas Barns and John Pillar share a strategy for shifting left and automating performance analysis.

Talk Title Continuous performance engineering: Moving fast without breaking things
Speakers Thomas Barns (Capacitas), John Pillar (Arcadia Group)
Conference O’Reilly Velocity Conference
Conf Tag Build Resilient Distributed Systems
Location London, United Kingdom
Date October 18-20, 2017
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With ever-increasing demands for fast business change, how can we ensure our digital channels reflect the exacting standards of performance our customers (and business owners) expect? What does this look like in an age of DevOps and continuous delivery? Thomas Barns and John Pillar share a strategy for shifting left and automating performance analysis. Thomas and John start by looking at what performance is (hint: it’s much more than simply page-load times) and important considerations such as stability and scalability. They then discuss how to automate analysis to provide meaningful results at all levels of the system and explore some of the techniques they use to pick up threats to load times and to the capacity and stability of the system. Topics include:

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