Hello from MuleSoft’s performance team!

This post describes a real-world tuning example in which we worked with a customer to optimize their Mule ESB application.

A customer presented us with an application that was to be a proxy to several endpoints. As such, it needed to be very lightweight since the endpoints introduced their own latency. We required the application to provide high throughput and minimal latency.

This real-world example shows how we helped the customer tune their application from a number of angles.

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Performance always matters

An application and its environment should be designed with performance in mind. The application, the server it runs on, the database it communicates with, the network it communicates over: all of these elements should be performant. Creating an efficient, elegant mechanism is not only important for a business, but a matter of skill and pride for engineers.

Although true, perhaps that is not the answer one is looking for.

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