Performance engineering/tuning

• Understanding of Databases like Oracle.
• Understanding of Application containers like WebSphere or Weblogic etc.
• Understanding of programming languages like Java.
• Knowledge of Performance testing.
• Knowledge of SQL

Audience

• Performance Testers
• Performance Engineers
• Developers who wants to grow their career as Performance Architects.

Format of the course

50% lectures, 50% labs

Introduction to Performance testing

• Performance testing life cycle.
• Performance test results interpretation.

Understanding various Architectures/Application models

• 2/3 tier architecture
• N tier architecture
• Middleware (MQ, Webservices etc) based architecture

Technology

• Basic UNIX commands (grep, find, vi editor etc)
• Basic Oracle/SQL (Queries, Tables, Triggers etc)
• Basic C/Java concepts

Detailed Analysis - Monitoring concepts/Tools

• Hardware Monitoring (Windows -Perfmon, UNIX -nmon, vmstat)
  • Run queue (Average processor queue length)
  • Network IO
  • Disk IO
  • Memory (Available, Used, Paging space, FS Cache etc)
  • CPU (Available, virtual, online, entitled etc)
• Web Server/App Server Monitoring
  • JVM (Java heap) -heap dump analysis
  • Connection Pool
  • Thread Pool
• Understanding of various monitoring tools like CA Wily Introscope, IBM Tivoli etc.
• DataBase Monitoring
  • Basic query tuning
  • SQL Trace
  • AWR or Statspack analysis
  • Query plan
• Understanding of Bandwidth, FTP
• Understanding of Network Monitoring using HTTPwatch or Fiddler