Shift left or right - not shifting is not an option!
Shifting left or right are DevOps terms that gained immense attention for most Cloud and IT teams. They are core concepts of the agile DevOps methodology
How can modelling increase the value of Performance Testing?
This article covers how you can use modelling to get more useful results from your performance testing.
The 5 Biggest Challenges in AWS Cloud Cost Management
We have worked with many clients to help reduce or control their AWS cloud costs. Across our engagements, we have seen 5 recurring challenges in cloud cost management: Oversizing, Software Inefficiency, Inelasticity, Sub-Optimal Architecture, Forecasting Complexity.
Using performance testing to Complement Real User Monitoring
Real user monitoring (RUM) provides vital information about user experience. But it is a reactive tactic, only providing visibility once code is in production.
Effective Capacity Provisioning
The over-commitment of infrastructure capacity resources is a wasteful and costly problem that remains prevalent in today’s world.
Measuring the financial cost of a 1-second website slowdown
This article covers the real world measurement of the cost of a slowdown in an online retail website. At what point does a slow response time make customers leave?
Conducting Workload Characterisation
Workload characterisation is the method by which the total resource utilisation is broken down into groups of resource consumers, or workloads.
Savings beyond your cloud bill
Reviewing your bill will only save you 25% of your cloud overspend. Here are 2 other places you need to look to really optimise your cloud spend.
Realising savings from infrastructure consolidation Part 2 of 3
Realising savings from infrastructure consolidation Part 2 of 5
Guide to Building a Capacity Model - Part 1
As part of a recent client engagement, I built a capacity model of a small, simple application that was reasonably well defined.
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5 Warning signs that your approach to cloud is reactive
Creating a scalable cost model means lower cloud costs on an ongoing basis and reduced time wasted on unproductive reactive activities.
