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Friday 3 July 2009, 1:51 PM
Increase Your Performance! No, I didn't mean it like that…
But do developers seek out specific information portals for help on performance management? It seems like a bit of a push doesn't it? After all, when was the last time you heard someone say that they were a performance management specialist and not find out that they worked for a performance management company? Well, you've probably never met someone that said that anyway, but you get my point.
Every case study I read (yes, I do read quite a few) seems to be concerned with enterprise integrations, migrations and assorted fine tuning of corporate IT stacks. Could it be the case that as this portal's owners (a company called dynaTrace) hope, customers will actually get together and collaborate information and distinct software modules designed to make IT installations perform better?
The portal itself, or web site if you prefer, is aimed at developer issues including monitoring, diagnosing and preventing performance setbooks across the full lifecycle - development, test and production - for mission critical applications. Its owners say that it is aimed at large, globally-deployed SOA, Java and .Net applications.
I don't question the value of application analysis and transaction tracing technologies such as this. Capturing individual transactions down to code level across different tiers and technologies in a distributed environment on a 24/7 basis is what this stuff is all about. I do question how many companies would bother collaborating on a portal site to share the improvements they have made – but perhaps I am reading it wrongly and they don't mean it that way. But that's certainly how it's been sold from where I'm sat.
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Hi Adrian
I guess I am one of those performance management specialists that also happend to work for dynaTrace.
I assume you are talking about our Community Portal where our customers can not only download plugins and extensions for dynaTrace, access online documentation and training tutorial but where they can also share their work they have been done with others.
Additionally to the community portal we also believe that sharing educational content about application performance management should be done for public access. Therefore my colleague Alois Reitbauer and I run our http://blog.dynatrace.com blog where we discuss problems that we have seen with our work at clients as well as what we see in the industry. Based on the feedback we get about our blog we are assured that this is a good tool to collaborate with the performance community.
Another aspect of collaboration - and maybe that is also one aspect you picked up on our website - is that we enable our clients with the ability to collaborate more easily when deploying dynaTrace across the lifecycle. As you know - collaboration is about exchanging information. Exchanging information in the performance management field for instance means that production needs to provide information to the architects and to testing so that the architects can figure out what the problem is and so that testing can adopt their tests with more real-life load information. With dynaTrace we make it easier to exchange the right information for the right people - this eliminates the tedious going back and forth between departments to ask for more or different information, e.g.: log files, access to machines, ...
If you are interested in sharing your experience in our field of expertise let me know - I am sure the community appreciates everyones input.
Cheers
Andi
