Charles Taylor InsureTech's IT Services Director Kieran Maloney discusses in-memory capabilities and testing in an article published by Information Age about solving the performance challenges of web-scale IT.

Kieran Maloney, explained: “Utilising an in-memory database and caching are ways to improve the performance of web-scale applications, particularly for things like real-time or near-time analytics.

“The majority of cloud infrastructure service providers now offer PaaS services that include in-memory capabilities, which increase the speed at which data can be searched, accessed, aggregated and analysed – examples include Azure SQL, Amazon ElastiCache for Redis, Google Memorystore, and Oracle Cloud DB.

“The other consideration for solving performance management is a testing approach for identifying how the actual performance is, and also determine whether there are specific aspects of the application that are not performing, or could be “tuned” to improve performance or the cost of operation.

“There are a number of Application Performance Testing tools available that provide business and IT teams with real-time usage, performance and capacity analysis – allowing them to proactively respond and make interventions to improve performance, as required.”

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