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Stop Guessing Your App's Resource Requirements

After development comes deployment - whether on-premise or on a cloud based environment. And then we face a simple question: how much resource should I assign to this system? What is the ideal numbers? If we get this wrong, we often need to go back time and again to fine tune - either to ensure our application is capable of handling the targeted load, or to avoid paying for resources we are not…

After an application is developed and deployed to either an on-premise or cloud-based environment, one must determine the appropriate amount of resources to allocate to the system. Getting this wrong can lead to excessive rework or unnecessary expenses. This article outlines a step-by-step approach to avoid this issue. The target audience is developers, managers, and CTOs.

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