Consulting Services

Performance Testing & Optimization

Numerous software teams have designed, written, and tested applications to address functional requirements -- only to have them fail in production because of slow performance. In fact, performance issues are often one of the most difficult hurdles a software team can face.

The first pitfall arises from the sheer number of moving parts that exist in modern web frameworks. A performance bottleneck could be in a database connection pool, a memory management issue, thread contention, an improperly configured application server or other supporting software, or even in the network, OS or hardware layers -- to name just a few! There are literally dozens of possibilities. A big mistake many teams make is blindly changing parameters, without knowing for sure where the bottleneck lies. Such efforts are usually futile.

The second pitfall is the difficulty of reproducing performance problems that only manifest themselves under a heavy user load. An application might have seemed snappy and reliable throughout the entire development and QA process, because only a few users were on it at a given time. Once it hits production, however, it is slammed by larger volumes of users, and performance often degrades exponentially. Without a professional-grade tool such as Loadster™ to simulate production levels of user load, it is very difficult to reproduce the condition and fix the root cause.

Our company provides professional testing and optimization services to help you get maximum performance out of your applications. If your organization is committed to high-performance, high-availability software, but lacks the time or resources to solve problems in-house, contact services@brickyardtechnologies.com to find out how we can help!

Architecture & Development

While our main focus has always been helping customers improve the performance and scalability of their existing applications, we also provide custom software development to select clients. We're experienced in a wide variety of platforms, languages, and frameworks, and we pride ourselves on our flexibility and our agile, responsive process. Please contact services@brickyardtechnologies.com for more info.