How Important is it for Performance Engineers to Understand the System Architecture?
Good performance engineers need to know what’s “under the hood” Recently, I was involved in a debate about whether it’s necessary for performance testers to understand the architecture of the system in order to become a specialist in performance/ performance testing/ performance engineering. At Abstracta, this…
Free tools to process logs for performance analysis
An overview of free tools to process logs for performance that we created for Apache, IIS, and other web servers Our tools, Replace All and Access Log Analyzer are open and free, located in our Github repository. Some time ago, Símon de Uvarow, (performance expert) started automating tasks…
System Performance Problems
How do we diagnose and fix system performance problems? While working with systems in production, it is common to encounter system performance problems that must be analyzed and solved. In general, those problems are complex, difficult to replicate issues that occur occasionally and may be…