More of a mental note about performance testing

The company I work for develop mainly web applications. These applications are often served from a single server (or server cluster). Our biggest sites are world wide companies located in 100+ countries using a network topology that sometimes can be considered as having a good development potential.

This has made us fairly good on optimizing web content. We know what difference a user experience is compared to a measured TLB (time to last byte). And have slightly moved from all those hard reference tests that, to be honest, sometimes are used to proove that we have done nothing wrong to increase the use of reference groups where surveys and questionaires has been the way to measure speed and usefulness of an intranet solution.

This doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t care about server performance etc, there’s no reason to not consider speed and performance right at the design phase. Therfor are IBM and the Red Book a very useful resource library for us. For example the Red Book Domino 7 Performance Tuning Best Practices to Get the Most Out of Your Domino Infrastructure is a key information source.