7 Simple Tips for Better Performance Engineering
Software performance and resilience are key components of the user experience, but as the software industry embraces DevOps, it’s starting to fall short on the performance and resilience aspects. Performance issues are often overlooked until the software fails entirely. However, we all know that performance doesn't suddenly degrade. As software is released through iterations, there is a performance cost every time more code is added, along with additional logic loops where things can fail, affecting the overall stability. Crippling performance or software availability issues are hardly ever due to a single code change. Instead, it’s usually death by a thousand cuts. Having rigorous practices to reinforce performance and resilience, and testing continuously for these aspects, are great ways to catch a problem before it starts. And as with many aspects of testing, the quality of the performance practice is much more important than the quantity of tests being executed. Here ar...