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Continuous Performance Testing
In our world of continuous delivery with repeatable builds and automated deployments, performance testing is often bolted on as an afterthought.
This can be an acceptable strategy until your application becomes popular, after which customers can start complaining about application response. As technologists, it is our responsibility to be able to reason about and improve the responsiveness of our systems.
Good performance testing is not only about catching regressions; it is a key enabler of measurement, investigation & optimisation. With integrated profiling and measurement we can determine how to drive efficient use of compute, network, and memory resources.
In this talk we will cover techniques for making performance testing a first-class citizen in your Continuous Delivery pipeline. Along the way, we will cover a number of war stories experienced by the team building one of the world's most advanced trading exchanges. Finally, we will explore how this approach fits in to the landscape of containerisation, virtual machines, and provider-managed resources.
Speaker
Mark Price
Performance Engineering Specialist at Aitu Software
Mark Price is an experienced technologist, with an enthusiasm for all things performance-related. He writes a popular blog on JVM and Linux topics, and is a regular speaker at international tech conferences. Mark has worked on high-throughput, large-scale, and low-latency distributed systems...
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