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HALF-DAY WORKSHOP

Ramping Up to the Modern Performance

Modern software is developed in a continuous manner, with several backend services frequently being deployed and scaled in the cloud. Furthermore, as organizations move toward agile, DevOps, and continuous delivery, it is vital for them to move away from traditional approaches to evaluate performance. This workshop is aimed at helping everybody, from beginner to experienced, learn the newest practices, tools and types of performance testing they should evolve to.

In this workshop, we’ll cover:

– Introduction to performance testing and the practices inside of it. – Old performance and load practices to let go and stop doing

– Modern approaches and tools

– Leveraging the Browser DevTools for performance testing

– Modern code based performance tools introduction

– Scripting and code sharing principles in modern tools

– Performance and Load test results storage and sharing

– Modern reporting techniques leveraging dashboards

– Introduction to synthetics and including performance assurance in CI/CD pipelines

– Introduction to observability from the SUT, End user, and automation perspective

– Putting together all the acquired knowledge and lear


What you’ll learn


What is performance testing and the work opportunities around it


How to leverage browsers for early issue detection


Basic uses of modern automation tools like k6, grafana, influxdb and more.


How to use synthetics for continuous performance testing.


Implementing RUM and instrumented performance.


Put together starter frameworks for continuous performance.


What you’ll need


Attendees must bring their laptops.


Clone the indicated repository and install the needed software, instructions available in the repository. Repository: https://github.com/srperf/perfworkshop

Software (instructions in repo): · jMeter · Grafana (Binaries download, prefered to avoid installzers) · influxDB v1.x (Binaries of version 1.x, avoid installers or versions 2.x or 3.x)


Workshop details

Track 3

14:00h - 18:00h · May 26th

4 hour workshop

Performance Testing

General Level

Workshop in English

leandro_melendez

Leandro Melendez

Leandro is helping everyone to ramp up on their IT, observability, QA and performance practices. Also known as Señor Performo he shares learning material in blogs, his YouTube channels (@SrPerfENG and @SrPerfESP), online interviews, online courses and hosting the podcast PerfBytes Español. He is an international public speaker participating in multiple conferences, events and webinars, with keynotes, workshops and multiple talks on his belt. And last, author of “The Hitchhikers Guide To Load Testing Projects”, a fun walkthrough that will guide you through the phases or levels of an IT load testing project.