About

If you’re curious to know who’s The Perfluencer, here’s my story:

I’m Kuba (formally it’s Jakub but I have not grown up to use my formal name), a Performance Engineer with close to a decade (as of writing this section) of experience in Performance Testing, Performance Engineering and Observability. I’m also too young years old, but I’m working on a fix for that each year. My career in IT started as a scripting kid-o, when I was doing some data analysis on big data in Thomson Reuters. The self taught programming skills helped me get noticed by a performance team in KYC department, which is where I started my journey as a junior performance tester.

Since then I’ve been doing consulting and full time jobs in large enterprises, mainly in the area of performance testing, monitoring, root cause analysis and capacity planning. Casually I mentor others in the best practices as well as fundamentals and advanced topics of Performance Testing and Open Source testing tools.

This blog is the manifest and a showcase that performance testing doesn’t have to be boring – it can be fun, rewarding and most importantly – relevant to the entire software development lifecycle. It’s also my way to share the experiences you’ll have to endure during your journey as a performance professional as I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one to fall into some traps I’m describing here. The Blog posts of mine represents some of my mistakes I’ve done in the past, or the ones from my colleagues that I thought would be relevant to share with others in hopes the community would learn from them.

I’ve also studied Software Testing, but I’m not sure why would anyone bring that up.