This white paper describes an emerging discipline: application performance engineering (APE). The goal of APE is to proactively help IT organizations reduce risk and manage a better relationship with the company’s business unit managers. APE achieves this goal by anticipating, and wherever possible, eliminating performance problems at every stage of the application development lifecycle.
Over the past decade, IT organizations have increasingly focused on ensuring acceptable application delivery, leveraging two main disciplines: application performance management (APM) and network and application optimization (NAO). Both of these disciplines are traditionally practiced in a reactive fashion, after an application has been developed or a major change has been made to the infrastructure. Increasingly, this risks and costs of this reactive approach are becoming less tolerable.
The Mandate for Application
Performance Engineering
