What is Performance Tuning?

Performance + Tuning

Performance Analysis:
Performance analysis, commonly known as profiling, is the investigation of a program's behavior using information gathered as the program executes. Its goal is to determine which sections of a program to optimize.

Performance Engineering:
Performance engineering is the discipline encompassing roles, skills, activities, practices, tools, and deliverables used to meet the nonfunctional requirements of a designed system, such as increase business revenue, reduction of system failure, delayed projects, and avoidance of unnecessary usage of resources or work. Identification of critical business processes. Elaboration of the processes in use cases and system volumetric.

Code Optimization:
Enhancing performance by rewriting specific portions of a program to run faster is one form of code optimization. The term code optimization can refer to improving the implementation of a particular algorithm for performing a task (code tuning). It can also refer to utilizing a better algorithm.

Load Balancing :
A system can consist of independent components, each able to service requests. If all the requests are serviced by one of these systems (or a small number) while others remain idle then time is wasted waiting for used system to be available. Arranging so all systems are used equally is referred to as load balancing and can improve over-all performance.

Bottlenecks :
The bottleneck is the part of a system which is at capacity. Other parts of the system will be idle waiting for it to perform its task. In the process of finding and removing bottlenecks, it is important to prove their existence, such as by sampling, before acting to remove them. There is a strong temptation to guess. Guesses are often wrong, and investing only in guesses can itself be a bottleneck

Self-Tuning :

A self-tuning system is capable of optimizing its own internal running parameters in order to maximize or minimize the fulfillment of an objective function; typically the maximization of efficiency or error minimization. Self-tuning systems typically exhibit non-linear adaptive control.