Last time I blogged about the importance of benchmarking the architecture and new technology in a Proof of Concept for Performance. This time I’ll deal with the importance of representative performance testing.

Slowness of applications in development environments is often neglected with the rationale that faster hardware in the production environment will solve this problem. However, whether this is really true can only be predicted with a test on a representative environment and in a representative way. In such an environment, there needs to be more representative than just the hardware.
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