patterns & practices Performance Engineering Cheat Sheet

We posted our patterns & practices Performance Engineering Cheat Sheet to our Application Architecture Knowledge Base on CodePlex.   It’s a bird’s-eye view of applying our performance techniques to the life cycle.  The techniques and approach shipped with VSTS/MSF Agile starting in 2005.

Performance Engineering Overlay
Here’s a view that overlays our key performance techniques alongside common software engineering activities:

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Key Activities in the Life Cycle
The core activities you should consider performing include the following:

  • Performance Objectives.
  • Budgeting.
  • Performance Modeling.
  • Performance Design Guidelines.
  • Performance Design Inspections.
  • Performance Code Inspections.
  • Performance Testing.
  • Performance Health Metrics.
  • Performance Deployment Inspections.
  • Capacity Planning.

You can read more about these techniques and how to apply them to your software architecture and your software development life cycle on our Cheat Sheet – patterns & practices Performance Engineering.

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