Listen to the recorded webinar here: https://www.appdynamics.com/container-store-webinar/

1. How The Container Store uses
AppDynamics in their development lifecycle
August Azzarello, The Container Store
Anand Akela, AppDynamics

2. August Azzarello
Software Quality Engineer
The Container Store
Our Presenters
Anand Akela
Director, Product Marketing, APM
AppDynamics

3. • The Container Store
• Challenges
• Solution
• Benefits
• APM Best Practices
• AppDynamics BizDevOps Collaboration
• Q&A
Agenda

4. • Leading retailer of storage and organization products
• Founded in 1978 – 72 stores nationwide
• FORTUNE magazine’s 100 Best Companies To Work For®
www.containerstore.com www.whatwestandfor.com

5. • APM solution used as reactive monitoring tool
• Customer impacting issues already introduced
• No insight into test environment, lack of
reporting on automated testing
Challenges

6. • Install AppDynamics into our test environments
• Build automated functional and performance
suites
• Baseline performance and functional metrics,
alert on deviations
• Build BT and alert policies in test
Solution

7. Transaction Analysis
Easily identify trends

8. Application Dashboard – Flow Map
Easily identify targeted testing by identifying which applications talk to each other

9. Custom Dashboards
Complete visibility into application environment

10. Compare Releases
Compare important metrics between deployments

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Metric Browser and Custom Reports
Any metric easily becomes a custom report

12. Tools used for automated testing
• Selenium (Ruby) for
Functional Testing
• Locust.io (Python) for
Performance Testing

13. • Set performance expectations before
production deployments
• Fine tune alert and BT policies prior
to production deployments
• Identify testing requirements, and
testing gaps
• Decrease performance test result
reporting from 5 hours to 20 minutes
Benefits

14. Best Practices

15. Best Practices
• Monitor everything
• If you can’t see it, you can’t monitor or test it
• Make health rules in test, promote to production
• BT Maintenance
• Test continuously
• Continuous test will help build baselines, better your ability to realize
deviations on performance and functional errors
• Performance test early in development life cycle
• The earlier you detect performance problems, the less impact they will
have on your release cycle
• Empower development & QA team members
• AppDynamics can give the ability for QA members to give more in depth
bug reports, forging strong team relationships and increasing efficiency

16. AppDynamics BizDevOps Collaboration

17. Login
Flight Status
Search Flight
Purchase
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Mobile
Big data
SOA
NOSQL
Cloud
Agile
Web
The Business Transaction is the
only constant unit of measure
Application complexity is exploding

18. DEV
OPS
BUSINESS

19. Purchase
Search Flight
Flight Status
Login
Infrastructure
Capacity
%
Business
Revenue
End User
Experience
Application
Performance
Oracle
Network
CDN
Browser(s)
Native
Mobile
App
Tomcat Service Weblogic Service .NET Service
Cassandra
ESB/MQ
Apache
JBoss Service
Enabling BizDevOps with Application Intelligence
APPLICATION INTELLIGENCE
Development
Operations
Business

20. Five Keys for BizDevOps Success
• Complete business transaction
visibility to expedite remediation of
app performance issue
• Ensure readiness for exceptional
customer experience in pre-
production
• Effectively collaborate with Dev, Ops
and Biz
• Reduce cost and risk through
automated change management
• Unlock actionable business insights
with Application Analytics

21. Expedite Remediation of Performance Issues
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• Auto-discover & monitor end-to-end
business transaction performance
within minutes, with no overhead
• Self-learning platform dynamically
computes optimal app performance
• Resolve application issues quickly
for exceptional end-user experience

22. Production Readiness in Pre-production
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• Test for desirable performance in
pre-production using same tool
• Deep transaction traces and
snapshots to find code issues
• Set-up automated notification rules
for performance testing

23. Effectively collaborate with Dev, Ops and Biz
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• Get everyone on the same page by
looking at the same Business
Transaction data in virtual war room
• Foster communication, with chat
and annotation capability
• Identify resolution criteria, assign
ownership

24. Reduce cost and risk through automated
change management
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• Compare performance snapshots
before and after a major code
release ( even Bug Fixes )
• Understand the performance impact
server & database upgrades and
Infrastructure changes
• Identify and resolve unplanned
changes proactively

25. Actionable Business Insights with Analytics
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• Harness the business data in
transactions and logs, and correlate
it to operational data
• Prioritize based on the revenue
impact of transactions
• See how customers are using your
product to help drive customer
enablement and prioritize
development efforts.
http://www.appdynamics.com/solutions/bizdevops-collaboration/

26. Q&A

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28. Thank you