Behind the scenes of performance bottlenecks

Before an application enters the development phase, there is a thorough discussion on what the application is supposed to do, how it will do it, and what kind of third-party components the application will need to interact with. Once all of this is finalized, the application enters the development phase, where the developers are responsible for building the application in such a way that the tasks to be performed by the application can be achieved in the most efficient manner possible. This efficiency is usually measured in terms of how much time an application takes to complete a provided task and how many resources it uses while working on that task.

When the application is deployed into production, the real test of the application begins. Most of the time, if the work being done by the application is the same as was defined during the requirements-gathering and design phases, the application usually performs well and provides an adequate scalability...