DevOps methodologies require stronger cohesion between application development and operations teams. In the DevOps paradigm, performance engineering must mature beyond the usual measure-and-tune approach. Join Sundar Narayanan as he explores principles and techniques for proactive performance engineering. Sundar shares techniques for building predictive performance models from system designs parameterized with workload characteristics and expected resource demands. Using operational measurement data from profiling and monitoring tools, these models are refined continuously to increase their accuracy. These models enable the development team to proactively predict performance and scalability challenges before they happen. Sundar also describes techniques for early performance testing and optimization with standardized instrumentation and measurement frameworks.
Sundar Narayanan
Sundar Narayanan leads the Integrated Solutions and Services Group of Wipro Technologies in North America. With over eighteen years of experience, Sundar’s core expertise has been in Performance Engineering of IT systems. He has led Performance Engineering practices for large consultancies including TCS and Capgemini. He is a practitioner in the areas of workload characterization, performance requirements analysis, architecture and design performance modeling and optimization, code and query optimization, performance testing and tuning, diagnostic analysis, and building Performance Engineering Centers of Excellence. Sundar has worked across multiple industry domains to provide advisory and implementation services in these areas. He is a strong proponent and practitioner of a shift of mindset from Quality Validation Testing to Quality Engineering.