Preventing the Post-Production Performance Problem

How confident are you that those new features you’re adding to your production application will be fast and efficient? What if they’re not? You need a process that finds inefficient code earlier, and a process to fix the inefficiencies that evade early detection. One process can accomplish both goals. This is article number two in […]

Cary Millsap it42it Interview

On January 27, my dear friend Mogens Nørgaard hosted me for a 1:39:13 chat, which he flatteringly called “Cary Millsap – the master thinker of application performance and more.” It’s a long, wandering conversation that I really enjoyed. Here’s how my friend Mogens describes it:

Solving the Unsolvable Performance Problem

How do you solve production performance problems? The method you use may be structurally incapable of helping you find certain types of performance problems. Changing how you look at your system makes all the difference. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been writing some short articles in a new series that I’m calling the Method […]

Trace 19.2.0.1 (2019-10-01)

Method R Trace 19.2.0 is ready for Oracle SQL Developer 19.2. It adds undo to the Clear button, eliminates the confusion over license key entry, and fixes a pesky bug that prevented you from seeing Oracle session attributes in your trace files.

Method R Optimization at a High-Profile Application Vendor

Fast triage of business-critical application performance issues High-profile app provider brings in Cintra’s User Experience services team to quickly address critical application performance issues, avoid financial penalties and keep its journey to the cloud on track.

Method R Optimization at a Global Food Retailer

Transformational application speed-up in just two days Cintra helps food retail giant accelerate load times of key screens from two minutes to two seconds in two days. This has enabled the retailer to successfully roll out its new product lifecycle management platform, a key enabler of its fresh food strategy.

Method R Optimization at a European Airline

European airline uses Method R to optimize key applications Method R enables a European airline to diagnose and resolve performance slowdowns within days, while demonstrating a $250K+ SAN upgrade was not required.