The who, the why and the what of this blog

Here is where the details about the audience and content go.

In this series I’m going to explain performance engineering and diagnostic methods. It’s for an IT-literate but nonexpert audience. If you’re an experienced performance engineer or troubleshooter, you probably won’t find a lot in here that you don’t know already. If you’re novice to IT and don’t know how to navigate around an OS prompt, you probably won’t benefit much either because it’ll be over your head. Somebody who’d benefit from this is a developer who needs to find out why their program stalls during execution, or an IT admin or application owner who needs to narrow down where the problem is an a multicomponent stack. This content will help somebody who knows the context but just needs to know a bit more about getting metrics and evaluating them. Because that’s what performance engineering largely is, getting the right metrics and making sense of what they mean, both together and in combinations.

Some topics I will be addressing include:

Fault Isolation
Tool Selection: Monitoring
Tool Selection: Deep Dives
Tool selection: Testing