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It's funny how suddenly your perception of something can change even though nothing specific has happened that might change it. That happened to me this year regarding centralizing performance management. I've seen the odd article about it (see for example Theresa Lanowitz's presentation listed in this month's tips); seen them at a number of organizations; even had a couple of approaches for my services to join such a unit; and had our own Javva the Hutt tell us in his column about the new performance organization he's heading up for a largish company.
Yet despite all that, it wasn't until a few months ago that I suddenly realized that this is now a firm trend rather than a series of isolated cases. The reasons for centralizing your performance management into one unit for your company are many: economies of scale, improvements in best practices, etc, all the usual reasons. But I think there are two particular driving factors. Firstly there's the cloud. Once you are migrating applications to a cloud type infrastructure, performance requirements becomes an integral part of your application requirements, which means that every application has to have some performance consideration. Of course that was always theoretically the case, but it has gone from being implicit and randomly considered to an explicit and consistent consideration now.
The second reason is general maturity in the IT industry where it comes to performance. We are increasingly seeing direct correlations between application performance and revenue generated - websites have highlighted this, but many industries can now produce figures which can show an improvement in performance directly producing an improvement in revenue. All of which adds up to good reason for having a consistent overview and management of performance throughout an organization.
And about time too. Now on with this month's newsletter. As usual we have all our usual Java performance tools, news, and article links. I asked Javva The Hutt to review his own centralized performance team; Over at fasterj the cartoonist tackles performance targets; and, as usual, we have extracted tips from all of this month's referenced articles.
Java performance tuning related news.
Java performance tuning related tools.
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