"We turned to PEA for guidance on several aspects on Application Performance Engineering & Capacity Planning. The one important investment we made was in the three PEA methodology packs on workload modeling, capacity planning and performance testing. These packs clearly brought out what it means to conduct each of these activities with scientific rigor, and provided refreshingly different and pragmatic prescriptions for incorporating this rigor into the everyday practice of PE."

"PEA conducted a 3-day foundational workshop on Performance Engineering at Aztecsoft. The workshop was attended by ~30 architects and senior project managers. I also personally sat through a good part of the workshop. I must say the workshop did add tremendous value to our Performance Engineering practice. It has given our engineers a clear understanding of the core principles. This along with the abundance of well thought-out exercises involving real-life scenarios that the participants got to do has laid a strong foundation for them to (i) reason clearly about performance issues, (ii) define the performance needs of the systems they build or test, and (iii) strategize on how their system would be built/tested for performance. I do see many of them actually using many of the techniques they learnt in their day-to-day work - modeling for performance upfront during development, trying to get idea of the eventual production performance from the unit test results, planning performance testing for optimal use of automation tools and hardware, etc.. The workshop and the grapevine about how good the workshop was has also resulted in, although indirectly, an increase in awareness about performance issues among those in the organization who did not attend the workshop. Of course the experience and knowledge of the subject that Rajeshwari and Ramkumar carried was clearly evident. The insights into the subject they shared certainly enriched the workshop experience even more.”