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Your customers are more demanding, uncompromising, and unrelenting than ever before. They expect your applications and systems to deliver an exceptional experience every time, wherever they are on whatever device they chose. However, when your system fails to perform because of complex infrastructure, mobile network connections or any other reason, your customers get frustrated and quickly become former customers. In the world moving at Cloud and DevOps speed, how can you stay ahead and deliver the exceptional experience your customers expect? Don't let performance be an afterthought that you attempt to address in final testing. Rather, consider how to engineer for performance from the very beginning.

Effectively, "Performance Engineering" enables you to ensure you deliver quality, scale, and performance throughout your products and services; so you delight customers with amazing experiences.

You'll learn about the four (4) primary elements of Performance Engineering proven practices:

• Architect & Design: How to engineer configuration and applications up front before starting development.
• Build: DevOps aspects for continuous integration, for effective and fast delivery.
• Deliver: Continuous deployment and operations.
• Monitoring: Predictive, growth, features, and continuous feedback.

How will you apply these proven practices to deliver business results?

About Todd DeCapua, Chief Technology Evangelist — HP Software

Todd DeCapua is the Chief Technology Evangelist with HP Software Research Group and co-founder of TechBeacon.com thought leadership site for IT Heros.

DeCapua is a seasoned software professional with 20+ years of experience in IT applications development, IT operations, technology integrations, channels operations and business development in several domains including: Mobile, Agile, Cloud, and Performance.

Over the years Todd has transformed three organizations to Agile / DevOps, consulted with 100+ organizations worldwide, and brings a variety perspectives and shares practical experiences. He has earned an MBA with Concentration in Finance, Bachelor of Science, and been recognized with several industry certifications and awards, and is an industry renowned leader / speaker / author.

About Shane Evans, WW Sr Product Manager and Evangelist for Performance Engineering at Hewlett Packard

Shane Evans is an experienced IT Manager with over 12 years in the industry. His primary focus has been Performance Engineering and Performance Management, and he spent 7 years managing these for a major financial institution in Canada before joining Hewlett-Packard in 2009 as a Presales Solution Architect. After two years in the field helping ensure the success of customers across the country, he is now the Product Manager for HP LoadRunner. Shane is an active member of the Performance Engineering community, and regularly contributes to the discussions on the HP Forums as well as Google Groups, Yahoo, LinkedIn and his own personal blog.