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Last updated on Nov 16, 2024
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Your web application is struggling with performance issues. How can you innovate without risking stability?

Your web application's performance issues shouldn't halt progress. To innovate responsibly:

- Implement feature toggles to roll out changes incrementally.

- Conduct thorough testing, including load tests, to anticipate how new features affect performance.

- Use canary releases to test updates with a small user base before full deployment.

What strategies have worked for you in maintaining stability while innovating?

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Last updated on Nov 16, 2024
  1. All
  2. Engineering
  3. Web Applications

Your web application is struggling with performance issues. How can you innovate without risking stability?

Your web application's performance issues shouldn't halt progress. To innovate responsibly:

- Implement feature toggles to roll out changes incrementally.

- Conduct thorough testing, including load tests, to anticipate how new features affect performance.

- Use canary releases to test updates with a small user base before full deployment.

What strategies have worked for you in maintaining stability while innovating?

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    Veren S.

    Empowering Businesses with Web Solutions | Times Men Of The Year 2022-23 | Dedicated Web & Mobile Team | IT Consulting | Startup Solutions | Product Development

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    1. Gradual Rollouts & A/B Testing 2. Canary Releases 3. Blue/Green Deployments 4. Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) with Robust Testing 5. Performance Monitoring & Alerting

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    Abdul Basit Mir

    Software Engineer (SDE III) | Meta Certified Front-End Professional | Code Alchemist | Transforming Ideas into Scalable Solutions | Crafting User Experiences that Spark

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    ⚡ Fix Your Slow App Without Blowing It Up ⚡ 1️⃣ Diagnose, Don’t Guess: Treat your app like it’s sick—run a performance audit. Cut those bloated assets, lazy-load like it’s 2024, and shrink those giant images (no one needs a 5MB selfie of a button). 2️⃣ Feature Flags = Safety Nets: Roll out changes gradually so users don’t rage-quit when things break. 3️⃣ Cache Like a Hoarder: Keep frequently used data handy and slap a CDN on it—speed is everything. 4️⃣ Spy on Your App: Use tools like Sentry to catch issues faster than your users can tweet about them. 5️⃣ Test on Dummy Data: Innovate in staging. If you’re gonna break something, break it there. 💡 Pro Tip: Stable apps make happy users. Broken apps make memes. Choose wisely.

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    Swapnil Satonkar

    Immediate joiner| QA Technical Lead| API Testing| Web & Mobile Application Testing| Agile | SQL | JIRA | Azure|Jmeter|Postman API|Selenium|TestNG|OTT App testing|

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    To innovate without risking stability, use a phased approach: implement and test small, incremental changes in a staging environment before deployment. Employ performance monitoring tools to identify bottlenecks and validate improvements. Adopt feature toggles to safely roll out updates, allowing quick rollback if issues arise.

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    Harshit Rastogi

    Building, Scaling and Managing Software | EM - Brevo

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    To address app performance issues without risking stability, so it can scale: Analyze Dependencies: Identify resource-heavy third-party integrations. Fix Memory s: Use profilers to resolve s. Like closing db connections. Optimize Code: Refactor critical functions and improve time/space complexity. Refine Data Structures: Use maps or dictionaries for faster lookups. Optimize DB: Tune queries, add indexes, and cache frequently accessed data. Identify Bottlenecks: Use tools like ELK or Datadog for root cause analysis. Deploy Incrementally: Use canary releases or ArgoCD. Adopt Async: Use async programming, Kafka, or Redis to scale. Use CDN: Offload static content. Monitor Continuously: Track metrics with observability tools.

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    Ravi Pol

    Senior Manager | Managing Delivery Architect | Sr AWS Architect | Quick Service Restaurant expert- McDonalds | Certified SAFe 6 Architect

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    When your web app faces performance issues, follow these steps to improve stability and scalability: 1. Containerize your app and enable autoscaling to handle CPU and memory usage above 75%. 2. Perform load testing in a lower environment, identify bottlenecks, and optimize app boot-up time. 3. Implement a health check service to scale down failing containers. For innovation: 1. Use feature flags to develop new features, perform feature enabled and disabled testing. 2. Test new features in a lower performance environment before production. 3. Adopt a canary release to gradually shift traffic to new containers. By combining performance testing, feature flagging, and canary releases, you can ensure reliable innovation.

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