Identifying bottlenecks
Enterprise applications become more complex every day. When the business succeeds, the application supporting that business will have more users, which means a bigger load received every day, so we need to take care of the performance bottlenecks that could appear.
To understand the term bottleneck, we are going to give a simple definition. In software systems, a bottleneck happens when the function of an application or a system is starting to be limited for a single component, and it is like comparing the neck of a bottle slowing down overall water flow.
In other words, we can see a bottleneck if our application starts to perform slowly or starts to exceed the anticipated response time . This can happen for different ...
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