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Through it’s rich set of services, the Centre continues to assist the software community in developing capability to carry out software engineering with success and flair.

An holistic view ensures that the most appropriate resources are acquired and fine tuned to address the nature and special challenges of the ‘project’.

As with any other business challenge, the fundamentals are addressed thus providing a backbone of competence.

This is followed with a specially tailored approach to assistance, using the portfolio of services of the CSE, that ensures budgeted and streamlined build of capability to optimum effect.

Performance engineering for enterprise applications

Enterprise applications need to be engineered in a way that allows them to dynamically meet the needs of a rapidly growing user base. Architectural traits of current performance focused applications include:

• Applications are designed to scale out rather than scale up. see ‘Scale Out’…
• Successful applications will try to solve scalability issues first and foremost in the business layer, see ‘Clustered Business Logic’…
• Large enterprise applications should distribute and partition themselves based on function, both at the database and business logic layers, see ‘Distribute by Function’ …
• When databases are large and complex then split and distribute the database to improve data manageability. See “Splitting Databases”..
• High volume enterprise applications try to avoid using transactions with distributed databases. See Distributed Database Transactions.
• Caching of frequently accessed data is a common feature of applications built for performance. See Global Caching

Contact CSE for further information on these topics .