Adopting Elixir

Performance Assessment Workflow

Good performance analysis is about taking mountains of facts and focusing on the most important grains of truth. In the previous sections we established what to measure so you’ll know how your system behaves through different traffic patterns. There’s plenty of data to gather, should you be so inclined. In fact, there would be too much information to decipher if you decided to measure everything we’ve outlined. Remember, the name of the game is focus. It’s time to find out which processes to target for more detailed instrumentation.

Regardless of whether you are optimizing a web server, an embedded system or the tools used by your team, the journey is quite similar. Before you begin, load test a feature and compare ...