Team based performance engineering

Performance testing is often part of a specialists remit and more often than not left to the end. Usually until there is no time to fix anything and we have to live with the consequences in Production. There is another more sustainable way.

Create a team focus on performance engineering, so every role on the team can get involved. Building in a focus on performance from the beginning is a tough but rewarding journey. To be successful you need to use the right tools and work together as a team. Engage your stakeholders about what performance engineering means for them.

During this tutorial we will cover the key principles of performance engineering:

• Designing for performance, involving the team and their business, product and architecture stakeholders.
• Adding metrics and telemetry to model the performance of your Production environment.
• Enabling your performance engineering effort early with small effort activities for big impacts.
• Making your tests and environments stable and repeatable to enable continuous performance feedback.

To do this we will use both collaborative sessions and hands on tooling to explore the following:

• Examine the contribution to performance engineering by role to get your team involved.
• Use tooling such as Artillery and Locust to build early, simple load tests that can get the team started.
• Add instrumentation to your application to gather performance metrics from Production.
• Translating metrics from Production into tests you can run in your deployment pipeline.

Performance engineering has the power to bring your team and their stakeholders together. This leads to better operability and safe and stable delivery of value. Join me to learn how to bring it all together.