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Performance Testing Requirement Checklist

The Performance Efficiency Checklist provides recommendations for scaling systems to meet workload demands while maintaining efficiency. Key actions include defining performance targets, conducting capacity planning, selecting appropriate services, collecting performance data, and continuously optimizing performance. The checklist emphasizes the importance of prioritizing critical flows and responding to live performance issues to ensure system effectiveness.

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Performance Testing Requirement Checklist

The Performance Efficiency Checklist provides recommendations for scaling systems to meet workload demands while maintaining efficiency. Key actions include defining performance targets, conducting capacity planning, selecting appropriate services, collecting performance data, and continuously optimizing performance. The checklist emphasizes the importance of prioritizing critical flows and responding to live performance issues to ensure system effectiveness.

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Performance Efficiency Checklist

This checklist presents a set of recommendations for you to scale your system so it can grow
and meet your workload usage demand. The goal of performance is to maintain the efficiency
of every interaction with a healthy system as demand increases. When you design and
implement for performance, focus on the efficiency and effectiveness of cost, complexity,
supporting new requirements, technical debt, reporting, and toil.

Define performance targets. Performance targets should be numerical values that are tied to workload
requirements. You should implement performance targets for all workload flows.

Conduct capacity planning. Capacity planning should be done before there are predicted changes in
usage patterns, such as seasonal variations, product updates, marketing campaigns, special events, or
regulatory changes.

Select the right services. The services, infrastructure, and tier selections must support your ability to reach
the workload's performance targets and accommodate expected capacity changes. The selections should
also weigh the benefits of using platform features or building a custom implementation.

Collect performance data. Workload components and flows should provide automatic, continuous, and
meaningful metrics and logs. Collect data at different levels of the workload, such as the application,
platform, data, and operating system levels.

Optimize scaling and partitioning. Incorporate reliable and controlled scaling and partitioning. The scale
unit design of the workload is the basis of the scaling and partitioning strategy.

Test performance. Perform regular testing in an environment that matches the production environment.
Compare results against the performance targets and the performance benchmark.

Optimize code and infrastructure. Use code that's performant and ensure that it offloads responsibilities
to the platform. Use code and infrastructure only for their core purpose and only when necessary.

Optimize data usage. Optimize data stores, partitions, and indexes for their intended and actual use in the
workload.

Prioritize the performance of critical flows. The allocation of workload resources and performance
optimization efforts should prioritize the flows that support the most important business processes, users,
and operations.

Optimize operational tasks. Monitor and minimize the effects of the software development life cycle and
other routine operations on workload performance. These operations include virus scans, secret rotations,
backups, reindexing databases, and deployments.

Respond to live performance issues. Plan how to address performance problems by incorporating clear
lines of communication and responsibilities. When a problematic situation occurs, use what you learn to
identify preventive measures and incorporate them in your workload. Implement methods to return to
normal operations faster when similar situations occur.

Continuously optimize performance. Focus on components that show deteriorating performance over
time, such as databases and networking features.

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