About DevPerfOps

DevPerfOps promotes a cultural shift that makes performance a shared responsibility for everyone involved in software development and deployment. This includes:

Developers: Writing efficient code that utilizes resources effectively, scales seamlessly under load, and meets pre-defined performance goals.

Performance Engineers: Proactively identifying performance bottlenecks and implementing optimization strategies throughout the development lifecycle.

Operations Teams: Continuously monitoring application performance in production, ensuring applications meet performance SLAs, and responding quickly to any performance issues.

Exceptional user experience: Delivering faster response times and smoother interactions, leading to increased user satisfaction and engagement.

Optimum resource utilization: Minimize resource consumption and optimize scaling strategies, resulting in lower infrastructure costs.

Faster time to market: Rapidly release new features and updates without compromising performance or stability.

Increased agility and innovation: Respond quickly to changing performance demands and adapt to new technologies with ease.

Shift-left performance testing: Integrate performance testing into the development process, starting with unit and integration tests and progressing to performance load testing earlier in the cycle.

Continuous performance profiling: Identify and address performance bottlenecks throughout the development process, ensuring code meets performance goals.

Comprehensive infrastructure monitoring: Continuously monitor application performance in production and identify potential performance issues before they impact users.

Performance budgeting and tracking: Set clear performance objectives for each development cycle and actively track progress towards achieving those goals.

Performance automation: Automate performance tests and reporting to reduce manual effort, improve efficiency, and free up valuable resources.

The tools and technologies that will be part of all DevPerfOps efforts include:

Performance testing tools: Leading commercial and open-source solutions for both back end and front end systems. This includes protocol-based and browser-based load generation, and browser performance analysis (i.e. W3C timings, Core Web Vitals, etc).

Observability and Application performance monitoring (APM) tools: Leading and open-source solutions to monitor and report on infrastructure availabilty, end user experience, and all aspects of the application lifecycle. This includes metrics, traces, and logs, and much more to determine the health and performance of systems.  

Cloud-based performance platforms: This includes testing and monitoring using native cloud vendor technologies to determine performance, availability, and reliability of those systems.

Performance optimization tools: Leading commercial and open-source solutions that tune systems by analyzing specific areas that should be optimized. This could be code, an infrastructure component, or a specific technology (i.e. database). These tools are more focused to achieve a specific tuning goal and may be seen as a diagnostic utility.

Over time,  a standard will be defined and documents that qualifies products and tools for certification by the DevPerfOps Foundation.