placeholder

placeholder

Test, analyze, and optimize your website or custom application

Are you having a performance problem right now? Are you afraid that your upcoming Whiz-Bang marketing campaign will result in too much traffic for your website to handle? Either way, you should hire us to find out where the problems are (or will be) and solve them before they do any more damage.

No matter the problem, we'll solve it

All too often, development happens in a vacuum. Developers have their own versions of backend databases that contain paltry amounts of data — often just enough to test that a feature or function barely works. That means that all during the development cycle, developers have a skewed view of how well the application works.

And then one day, the application is deployed to production.

It may not come to a screeching halt right away, but it will start having at least some problems:

  • Intermittent deadlocks that never seem to have a discernible pattern
  • Unusually slow response times
  • Queries that time out
  • Presenting to the user more data than can be reasonably navigated
  • Form controls that cannot handle the data with which they are populated
  • Users logged out for no reason

These problems and many more happen on both web and desktop applications of all kinds. It's our job to solve them.

We'll observe the problems and talk to your developers, and then we'll go to work.

First stop: testing and analysis

We'll trace and analyze resource usage in both your application and database under true production loads, looking for both hot spots and high continuous consumption. We'll create a triage of problem areas from worst to least and drill down into each one.

Next stop: optimization and testing

Starting at the top of the triage and working toward the bottom, we'll apply remedies to each problem. To make sure these remedies work as planned we'll design and build performance tests that verify each one in a staging environment. And we'll verify using production-scale data and traffic loads exceeding the ones that triggered the problems in the first place.

Last stop: deployment and handholding

We can closely simulate your production environment and operating conditions in your staging environment, but nothing can make them identical. That's why we stick around to handhold the optimized application once it's deployed to production. When you're happy with the results, we'll be on our way.

So if you need some genuine pain relief, call Adam at 770-446-8866 and tell him where it hurts.