Publication: APM Digest, 5 Dec 2011
To be successful, one must prepare cloud providers with adequate knowledge transfer to ensure application performance, define service-levels and consider performance and end-user experience, among other challenges. If you’ve been thinking that your application is a candidate for the cloud then you need to obtain a real understanding of the performance capabilities and discuss with your cloud suppliers just what they can do to maintain or increase your current performance.
The best practice here is called an application audit and it is used to determine three types of baselines for an application while under load. These include: configuration, application and performance baselines, all of which help confirm that you have an appropriate monitoring configuration, sufficient visibility to solve performance problems, and have identified the key response-time and execution frequency of the major transactions or internal components of the target application. But where do you begin?
