Latency and throughput
Trace the work behind important requests and identify where time or capacity is being lost.
Performance optimisation
Find the bottleneck. Measure the difference.
Performance consulting for applications and backends: latency, throughput, database queries, profiling and behaviour under load.
WHEN THIS HELPS
Start with the real constraint.
A slower response, a database that struggles at peak times or a growing infrastructure bill can have very different causes. The first step is to understand the workload and establish a useful baseline.
Database access
Review queries, access patterns and the interaction between application code and data storage.
Load and validation
Use representative load to evaluate changes and check whether a local improvement helps the full system.
A CONCRETE OUTCOME
A direction you can act on.
A measured baseline, identified bottlenecks and targeted changes evaluated against the agreed workload. Performance goals are defined with the project; no percentage gain is assumed in advance.
Discuss this challengeBefore we start
Where does a performance review begin?
With the behaviour that matters to users and the business: the workload, slow paths, available measurements and limits of the current environment.
Will faster code solve every capacity issue?
Not necessarily. Database access, contention, external services and architecture can all affect the result. The analysis needs to follow the request across those boundaries.
A SYSTEM. A CHALLENGE. A CONVERSATION.