The Method R performance assessment is different.
What is a system? To different people, the word means different things. But every single person who does the real work of a business will tell you, “My system is the set of application functions that I use.” And performance? Plain and simple, performance is how long a user has to wait. And that’s exactly what Method R consultants measure when we assess a system.
A Method R performance assessment is a direct investigation of your users’ system performance experiences. We use high-precision response time measurement tools to learn quickly whether your applications expend any wasted effort or have unnecessary blockages in them, all the way up and down your hardware and software stack. If we find problems that either diminish your performance today or put your future performance at risk, we show you how to fix them (if you want us to, we’ll fix them for you). If your system is in great shape, then we explain how we know it’s in great shape. If your software and configuration are all good, but your hardware just isn’t strong enough to handle your requirements, we’ll help you figure out what you need. Every step of the way, we show you how we know.
We can help...
We can do it for you
Method R consultants have analyzed many of the best and worst systems created by humanity.
We work from the business inward, beginning with the end-user’s performance experience. Relevance is the Method R priority.
We can teach you how
The core of our business is making you better. We teach how to design, how to measure, and how to optimize.
Our teachers include Cary Millsap, Ron Crisco, and C. J. Date. Our courses can change careers.
We can make it easier
We build software to optimize the results of our consulting and teaching. Every day, we perfect those tools for you to use, too.
Our software helps you measure performance experiences, fix problems, and write better code.
Some of the things we can do for you...
- Search your system for inefficiencies that could impede current or future performance.
- Predict the impact—in seconds saved per user experience—of a proposed hardware change.
- Redesign an application that’s slow, doesn’t scale, or just doesn’t make users happy.
- Teach your developers and DBAs how to find and fix performance problems on their own.
- Equip your developers and DBAs with software tools that measure user performance experiences.