{"product_id":"the-performance-testing-playbook-pratap-venkatesan-9798252304731","title":"The Performance Testing PlayBook","description":"\u003cp\u003eAre your performance tests giving you false confidence?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEvery week, teams ship software that passed performance testing - and then watch it collapse under real traffic. The tests ran. The results looked fine. Production failed anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Performance Testing Playbook is a practitioner's field guide for software engineers and QA leads who are done with performance tests that tick boxes but protect nothing. Written for the real world - not the textbook - this playbook draws on documented industry failures, hands-on tooling guidance, and hard-won engineering principles to help you build tests that actually reflect how your system behaves under pressure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat you'll learn: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy most performance tests are fundamentally useless - and the five specific mistakes that make them so\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to choose the right test type (load, stress, soak, spike, breakpoint) for every scenario\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorkload modelling techniques that reflect real user behaviour - not artificial traffic patterns\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA complete JMeter field guide: thread groups, samplers, assertions, correlation, and the mistakes that silently invalidate your results\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ek6 for modern teams: JavaScript scripting, thresholds as code, and CI\/CD integration that makes performance a continuous gate - not a last-minute check\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to read the metrics that matter: p95, p99, throughput, error rate, and saturation - and what each one hides\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA systematic approach to finding and fixing bottlenecks using APM data and request tracing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to translate performance results into business risk - and present findings that actually drive decisions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eReal incidents. Real lessons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the $1.7 billion Healthcare.gov collapse to Knight Capital's $440 million trading catastrophe - this book grounds every principle in documented failures that show exactly what is at stake when performance testing is treated as a formality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhether you are preparing for your first major launch, integrating performance into a CI\/CD pipeline, or trying to convince stakeholders that p99 latency is a business problem - this playbook gives you the framework, the tools, and the language to do it right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho this book is for: Software engineers, QA leads, DevOps engineers, and engineering managers who want performance testing that produces valid, actionable results - not just green dashboards.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Pratap Venkatesan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798252304731\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Pratap Venkatesan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997597708543,"sku":"9798252304731","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-performance-testing-playbook-pratap-venkatesan-9798252304731","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}