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Introduction to Metrics and Performance Expectations

Introduction to Metrics and Performance Expectations

Learn about why the performance of our application matters and some tools to assess the performance.

We’re coming to the end of the road in our adoption journey, but there’s still some work to do. After we’ve decided how to deploy the application, it’s time to shift our focus to keep things running quickly and uniformly. That task will take us into gathering metrics for performance analysis. Before we dive into tools, let’s talk a bit about why we need to do so.

Maybe choosing Elixir was precisely linked to facing performance issues or battling scalability challenges. There are many reasons why these things are important.

Why does performance matter?

First, let’s consider the impact of uniformly strong performance on customers. If it’s a web application, performance directly impacts the user experience and that relates to ...