Tuning Methodology

This section describes a tuning methodology developed in the company I work for—Solid Quality Learning—and have been implementing with our customers. Credits go to the mentors within the company who took part in developing and practicing the methodology, especially to Andrew J. Kelly, Brian Moran, Fernando G. Guerrero, Eladio Rincón, Dejan Sarka, Mike Hotek, and Ron Talmage, just to name a few.

So, when your system suffers from performance problems, how do you start to solve the problems?

The answer to this question reminds me of a programmer and an IT manager at a company I worked for years ago. The programmer had to finish writing a component and deploy it, but there was a bug in his code that he couldn’t find. He produced a ...

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