Performance engineering
We profile production systems end to end, from browser to database, then remove the bottlenecks and build the testing and observability that stop them returning.
When clients call us
- Response times degrade every month and nobody knows why.
- Load tests pass, then production falls over.
- Scaling up hardware no longer helps.
- Customer-facing SLAs are in contracts but not in dashboards.
Our view
Slow systems are rarely slow everywhere. Usually one constraint, such as a query, a lock, a chatty integration or an undersized pool, sets the limit for everything else.
We find that constraint with measurement rather than guesswork, fix it, prove the improvement and then put the tests and dashboards in place so regressions are caught before customers feel them.
What you get
- Performance baseline
- Latency, throughput and error budgets for each critical user journey.
- Root-cause analysis
- Profiling of code, queries, caches, network and infrastructure to locate the real constraint.
- Remediation
- Hands-on fixes with before-and-after measurements for every change.
- Continuous performance testing
- Load tests in the pipeline and SLO dashboards that alert before users notice.
What changes
- Critical journeys meet agreed latency targets under real peak load.
- Infrastructure spend drops once code, not hardware, carries the load.
- Regressions are caught in the pipeline rather than in production.
Ways to engage
Performance health check
2 weeks
Baseline, profile and a prioritised fix list.
Performance squad
6 to 12 weeks
A small team that finds and fixes bottlenecks alongside yours.
Start with a two-week assessment
Tell us about the platform, integration or AI initiative on your desk. We will reply within one working day with how we would approach it.