We posted our patterns & practices Performance Engineering Cheat Sheet to our Application Architecture Knowledge Base on CodePlex.   It’s a bird’s-eye view of applying our performance techniques to the life cycle.  The techniques and approach shipped with VSTS/MSF Agile starting in 2005.

Performance Engineering Overlay
Here’s a view that overlays our key performance techniques alongside common software engineering activities:

Key Activities in the Life Cycle
The core activities you should consider performing include the following:

• Performance Objectives.
• Budgeting.
• Performance Modeling.
• Performance Design Guidelines.
• Performance Design Inspections.
• Performance Code Inspections.
• Performance Testing.
• Performance Health Metrics.
• Performance Deployment Inspections.
• Capacity Planning.

You can read more about these techniques and how to apply them to your software architecture and your software development life cycle on our Cheat Sheet – patterns & practices Performance Engineering.

Additional Resources
You can find more information on performance engineering at:

• Performance Engineering (GuidanceShare)
• patterns & practices Performance Modeling
• patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications

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