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: