In my recent blog, Revolutionizing the Nine Pillars of SRE with AI-Engineered Tools, I indicated that AI could analyze application and infrastructure performance data to identify optimization opportunities and predict capacity requirements. In this blog, I explain in more detail how AI-engineered tools can be used to improve the pillar that I call performance management […]
Of Max and Min: When Performance Engineering Plans Go Awry
Modern software developers have access to powerful tools and services which allow them to quickly develop, demo and deploy fully functional applications. But what happens when the single-user prototype satisfies all required functionality but the user says the system seems slow? Or if the initial implementation turns out fine for one user, but multiple users […]
Riverbed Aims to Unify App, Network Performance Management
Much of the initial focus on DevOps has been on accelerating the rate at which applications are built and deployed. But once those applications are deployed, it’s not too long before the focus shifts to the quality of the end-user experience. Aiming to make it easier to determine what the quality of that experience really […]