Performance Testing in Production

Production? You remember that system that has to keep running 24x7x365 to keep your customers happy, and employees productive and keep your organization's revenue stream going? Yeah, that one. Did you ever thing that doing destructive load or stress testing on that live system was a good idea? Whether your an external contractor testing over the internet or an internal testing team with no other place to test, sometimes you have no choice but to do your performance testing in production. In this episode of PerfBytes, James and I will give you some tips about how to conduct performance tests in production safely. Sure, we'll try and persuade you not to take the risk - but there are ways to do this, and there are partners that can help you do it right.