An Incremental Methodology for Performance-Tuning CMS

Performance and scalability issues often cripple sophisticated Web applications such as Content Management Systems. Resolving these issues and meeting performance requirements, though, can be a daunting task. As Web applications grow, load-testing scenarios and scripts become increasingly complex and difficult to maintain. Managing scope proves cumbersome. And, isolating the bottlenecks that throttle performance is many times vexing and futile.

This presentation offers a scalable scalability testing and tuning methodology that effectively handles the complexity of large Web applications. Rather than approaching testing from the traditional, scenario-based point of view, it tackles tasks from a single-page perspective. In addition, this technique establishes distinct and easily-manageable test phases for making certain that a Web site performs at its peak potential. This talk will include a variety of example cases demonstrating how to resolve such issues as concurrency conflicts, memory management problems, and approaches to optimizing high-level tasks like publishing.

Bryan Che
Red Hat, Inc.
bche@redhat.com
Expected presentation time: 45 minutes