Monday, January 26, 2009

SOA/BPM performance best practices (Intro)


Today's application solutions, that include SOA and Business Process Management are usually spread across a nontrivial operational topology like the one in the picture on the right.

The quality of service that a business process provides to the business is directly dependent on the integrity, availability, and performance characteristics of the involved IT systems. The more components are involved, the more complex the solution will become in every aspect throughout it's life cycle.

The following posts will try to provide an overview (from my limited point of view) on the most important performance aspects to take care of in such a complex environment by
  • identifying performance relevant areas,
  • providing the most important items to take care of in each of these areas,
  • discussing some governance principles to address the integrity issues that might arise in case of performance problems and with planned or unplanned outages.

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