System Optimization

Do you know that 46% of your customers prefer rival sites because of the technical or performance difficulties that occur on your site, which you put into service after months of work? Another meaning of this is that you have successfully completed your project and have been damaging 46% of your profit from the moment you started providing sales services. 

In this complex technological environment where competition is high and hard, if your application is struggling with technical or negative performance problems; your competitors will be taking the 46% customer portfolio you missed. The critical question arises here. Is your action plan ready to tackle your competitors by solving your performance problems? You are not late if you are determined to fix it and the project and material, spiritual labour will not go in vain.

Performance is the indispensable quality component of the software system. The fact that this important quality component cannot meet performance requirements in software projects poses eight possible problems.

• Injured customer relationships and insecurity,
• Negative discourses,
• Falling product prices and loss of income,
• Failures in Operating,
• Weakening competition,
• Increased hardware costs,
• Additional project and resource need,
• The project end in failure.

Companies with technical or performance problems use 85% of IT resources to improve their structure.  Considering that Google served 10,000 calls per day in 1998 and 30,000 per second today, even mobile devices in 2015 are 6.5 Exabytes in trading volume, Will a remaining 15% resource be sufficient for research and development for renewal? The rule in our world, where there are 360 million in 2000 and 2 billion internet users today, is very simple: “The fast one wins”. When the software that are not different from each other getting compared the “fast one” takes the market share. Because this is a commercial race.

We must not forget that software performance is success and high-level commercial gain. So, what should you do in the fight against your competitors to serve at high speed with more and more users, more data increasing day by day so that your projects do not lose 46%?

• Listen to your customers' complaints well, design the system as simple but functional as possible, because they are not naturally interested in metrics such as insufficient bandwidth, insufficient CPU or the number of transactions per second.
• During the project period, stay away from abstract discourses such as “we have to be fast enough, we have to work without errors” and talk about agreed metrics.
• Do not see test operations as an expensive investment. Do not underestimate and neglect unit tests, because the cost of the software assistant finding the error, he made himself 1 Unit, Cost of correction of the error found by the test specialist 10 Unit, cost of correction of the error found by the customer 100 Unit + A possibility of %46 loss and the 8-item mentioned above. Do you start projects to fail?
• Determine your quality components.
• Identify your performance components.
• Create your performance model.
• Measure, test, target, scale and make continuous improvement to your project.
• Keep your performance model compliance status under constant control with regular reports.

Good engineering is the interpretation of any written, verbal and video recorded unprocessed data and the creation of an action plan accordingly. If you are very lucky, you can identify and improve your performance problems after you put your application into service. Unfortunately, it can often be late, even if you can afford to make a great effort with more resources to bring your software to acceptable performance levels. This is a commercially bad situation, and you might fall in to the state of doing everything from scratch.