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Wednesday, April 9, 2014 - 3:15pm - 4:15pm
Performance Testing
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Techniques for Agile Performance Testing NEW

The performance of your application affects your business more than you might think. Top engineering organizations think of performance as not just a nice-to-have feature but as a crucial feature of their product. Those organizations understand that performance has a direct impact on user experience and, ultimately, their bottom line. Unfortunately, most engineering teams do not regularly test the performance and scalability of their infrastructure. Jim Hirschauer shares the latest performance testing tools and insights into why your team should add performance testing to an agile development process. Learn how to evaluate performance and scalability with MultiMechanize, Bees with Machine Guns, and Google PageSpeed. Take back an understanding of how to automate performance testing and evaluate the impact it has on performance and on your business.

Jim Hirschauer, AppDynamics

Technology evangelist for AppDynamics Jim Hirschauer has an extensive background in highly available, business critical, large enterprise IT operations environments. Jim has been interested in application performance testing and monitoring since his days as a systems administrator in a retail bank. His passion for performance analysis led him down a path to design, implement, and manage the cloud computing monitoring architecture for a top-ten investment bank.

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