Jean Tunis, Senior Consultant and Founder of RootPerformance, has joined The BSM Blog on APMdigest.
RootPerformance is a performance engineering consultancy that helps technology operators minimize cost and lost productivity. They do this by solving the customer's application and network performance problems. RootPerformance also provides one-time and monthly services to businesses that require on-demand performance troubleshooting.
Tunis has worked in the performance engineering space since 1999, helping companies solve and plan for application and network performance issues. He has also authored an ebook called Analyzing HTTP: Nine Things to Look for When Profiling and Troubleshooting Web Performance to help those working in the field.
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