The Challenge
Why Cloud Applications Slow Down
Performance problems usually come from bottlenecks in design, sizing or data access, and they are hard to fix without the right data.
Is This Relevant?
Is This Use Case Relevant to Your Organization?
The people, moments and signals that usually bring this need to the surface.
Relevant Teams
- Application owners
- Engineering and operations teams
- Customer-facing business teams
Common Triggers
- Complaints about slow applications
- Growth in users or data
- A recent migration to the cloud
Warning Signs
- Slow pages or transactions at peak times
- Rising database response times
- Performance issues nobody can explain
Typical Environments
- Public cloud, in one or more providers
- Hybrid environments with cloud-hosted services
Benefits
What Better Looks Like
Intended benefits. Actual results depend on your environment and starting point.
Our Approach
A Practical Approach
A cycle of design, testing and improvement, so resilience keeps pace with change. Each stage is tailored to your environment.
Assess
Review architecture, past incidents, monitoring and recovery arrangements.
Prioritize
Rank what you find by business impact, effort and risk, and agree where to start.
Design
Agree availability targets and the design patterns for each service.
Implement
Apply design changes, monitoring and automation in planned stages.
Validate and Optimize
Test failover and recovery, and check performance under load.
Solutions
Solutions That Can Help
The solutions that address this use case, starting with the primary one.
Services
How Signisys Can Support You
The services that deliver the approach, from the first assessment to ongoing improvement.
Technology
Technology Options
Where technology fits in the approach. Specific platforms and partner status are confirmed for each engagement.
Before You Start
What to Consider Before Getting Started
A little preparation makes the first assessment faster and its findings more reliable.
- Performance targets for key transactions
- Monitoring and tracing already in place
- Database and storage design
- Cost impact of any added capacity
- Who will own the work and act on recommendations
- Engagement model and ongoing support
Measuring Success
How to Measure Success
Illustrative measures. Agree a baseline first, and keep targets separate from measured results.
Response Time
How quickly key transactions complete.
Error Rate
Errors seen by users.
Utilization
Use of compute and database capacity.
Cost per Transaction
Infrastructure cost relative to work done.
Our Approach
How We Deliver Results
How Signisys works, from the first assessment to handover and beyond.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this use case.
How do we find the cause of slow performance?
Monitoring and tracing show where time is spent: in code, databases, storage or network. Measuring before changing anything avoids guesswork.
Is adding more capacity the answer?
Sometimes, but often the bottleneck is elsewhere. Fixing the real cause usually costs less than adding resources.
What information is needed to get started?
The applications affected, when slowdowns happen, current monitoring data, and the architecture of the application and its database.
Which environments does this apply to?
Public cloud, in one or more providers, and hybrid environments.
How is progress measured?
Agree a baseline for measures such as response time, error rate, utilization and cost per transaction, then track them over time.
Related Content
Related Outcomes, Use Cases and Guides
Where to go next: the outcome this use case supports, nearby scenarios, technology partners and practical guides.
Business Outcome
Improve IT Reliability and Business Continuity
Problem Explainer
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How-To Guide
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Decision Guide
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