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5. Invalid Load Tests

Erik Ostermueller
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Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
 
Performance tuning can get pretty complex; just think about all the various places in an environment that could have performance problems:
  • The configuration of your container (WebSphere or Spring Boot or whatever)
  • The network
  • The operating system
  • The hardware
  • The load generator
Don’t let all of this overwhelm you. To minimize the complexity of it all, we developers should first focus on the performance of the part we’re responsible for—the code. This is the Code First approach. A healthy percentage of performance defects are write-once-run-anywhere issues that will ...

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