Application performance management and testing

Application performance management and testing is a constant battle, and software teams need to plan how they will tackle these tasks from the onset of development. This section reviews key practices and tools that help developers distribute workloads, test for potential failures, automate application monitoring and resolve performance issues quickly.

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