Suresh Nageswaran
Suresh Nageswaran
Suresh Nageswaran
Pune, India
It is not everyday that you are thrust into something you can truly think of as your professional calling. It was a pretty uneventful morning when a program manager cut into my morning game of pool (don't ask!) to tell me we needed a performance test. Performance testing for me was something we did "on the side" to regular testing. Personally, I had no idea where to start from or what to do. All I was told was that I had to create a test harness that spawned threads each of which would play the game we were testing. That excited me - writing C code that would take the server down seemed like a challenge. And so, I wrote my own load driver. This turned out to be an education in the mechanics of a load testing tool. So a year later, in a different company, when I was confronted with LoadRunner, the "faze factor" was significantly lower. I oohed and aahed at the graphs I was able to churn out and the extensibility of the C compiler.
Nearly five years later, I still see myself as a student of performance engineering. Each day I learn more from peers, from the folks I've trained and the assignments we do.
This blog is meant to be a means to share some of my experiences and reach out to the community at large.