Alex Podelko

Alex Podelko is a senior performance engineer at Amazon Web Services, responsible for Amazon Aurora performance. Before joining AWS, he supported major performance initiatives for MongoDB, Oracle, Hyperion, Aetna, and Intel in different roles including performance tester, performance analyst, performance architect, and performance engineer. Before specializing in performance, Alex led software development for Rodnik Software. Having more than thirty years of overall experience in the software industry, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from Gubkin University and an MBA from Bellevue University.

Alex periodically talks and writes about performance-related topics, advocating tearing down silo walls between different groups of performance professionals. He currently serves as a board director for the Computer Measurement Group (CMG) and a member of the SPEC Research Group Steering Committee.


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Talks / Publications

Continuous Performance Testing: Challenges and Approaches, Performance Advisory Council 2023, Orlando, FL, December 13, 2023.

Continuous Performance Testing: Challenges and Approaches keynote, Test Istanbul 2023, Virtual, October 5, 2023.

Views from the Trenches: Current Trends in Performance Engineering slides and short paper, WEPPE/ICPE 2023, Coimbra, Portugal, April 15, 2023.

The Future of Performance Engineering: Empirical Analysis of Current Trends, CMG imPACt, Atlanta, February 22, 2023.

A Review of Modern Challenges in Performance Testing, Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2022), Virtual, April 10, 2022.

Continuous Performance Testing: Challenges and Approaches, CMG imPACt, Virtual, February 1, 2022.

The Business Case for Performance, Performance Calendar, December 26, 2021.

The Past Present and Future of Performance Engineering, CMG imPACt, Virtual, January 26, 2021.

Integrated Performance Management, Performance Calendar, December 9, 2020.

Should performance testing grow fur or feathers to be saved from extinction? slides and video, Performance Advisory Council, virtual, October 7, 2020.

Applying Performance Testing and Modeling for Selection of the Appropriate Cloud Platform During DevOps (with Boris Zibitsker), Performance Engineering in the Time of DevOps, Virtual Summit by CMG, August 18, 2020.

Context-Driven Performance Testing, Test Leadership Congress, July 27, 2020.

Performance Testing and Modeling for New Analitic Applications, paper and slides (with Boris Zibitsker), Big Data Conference, Minsk, Belarus, May 21, 2020.

Performance Testing and Modeling for New Applications, slides and video (with Boris Zibitsker), Load Testing and Benchmarking workshop, April 20, 2020.

A Short History of Performance Engineering (preseted during Meeting of the Minds: Performance Engineering), CMG imPACt, Las Vegas, NE, February 11, 2020.

Magic Numbers or Psychological Thresholds?, Performance Calendar, December 14, 2019.

Internet of Things: Performance, Capacity, and Scalability Aspects, keynote at IEEE UEMCON, New York, NY, October 10, 2019.

The Forgotten Art of Performance Modeling, slides and video, Performance Advisory Council, virtual, September 24, 2019.

Context-Driven Performance Testing, CMG imPACt, Seattle, WA, February 20, 2019.

Context-Driven Performance Testing, Performance Advisory Council, Chamonix, France, February 6, 2019.

Context-Driven Performance Engineering, Performance Calendar, December 17, 2018.

Continuous Performance Testing: Myths and Realities, slides and video, Performance Advisory Council, virtual, June 6, 2018.

Performance Requirements: The Backbone of the Performance Engineering Process, SQA Days, Minsk, Belarus, May 25, 2018.

Continuous Performance Testing: Myths and Realities, SQA Days, Minsk, Belarus, May 25, 2018.

Foundation Level Syllabus. Performance Testing, Version 2018, ASTQB and GTB, March 1, 2018.

A Short History of Performance Engineering, The 2018 DZone Guide to Performance, v.IV, pp.25-27, 2018.

Shift Left, Shift Right - Is It Time for a Holistic Approach?, Performance Calendar, December 10, 2017.

Continuous Performance Testing: Myths and Realities, CMG imPACt, New Orleans, LA, November 8, 2017.

Reinventing Performance Tetsing, The DZone Guide to Performance, v.III, pp.26-27, 2017.

Reinventing Performance Testing paper and presentation, CMG imPACt, San Diego, CA, November 9, 2016.

New Dimensions of Load Testing, Performance Calendar, December 2, 2015.

Multiple Dimensions of Load Testing paper and presentation, Performance and Capacity Conference by CMG, San Antonio, TX, November 2, 2015.

Adjusting Performance Testing to the World of Agile, QA:Expo, Madrid, Spain, June 11, 2015.

Performance Requirements: the Backbone of the Performance Engineering Process, Keynote at TestIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, March 27, 2015.

Large-Scale Testing: Load Generation, The Fourth International Workshop on Large-Scale Testing (LT 2015), Austin, TX, February 1, 2015.

Different Angles of Web Performance, Performance Calendar, December 29, 2014.

Exploratory Performance Testing, Testing Experience, December 2014, pp.14-15.

Load Testing: Which Tool to Choose? paper and presentation Performance and Capacity Conference by CMG, Atlanta, GA, November 5, 2014.

Adjusting Performance Testing to the World of Agile, Performance and Capacity Conference by CMG, Atlanta, GA, November 4, 2014.

The Skills Performance Testers Need and How to Get Them, Testing Experience, September 2014, pp.44-45.

Tools of the Trade: Load Testing, Ignite session at WebPerfDays, New York, NY, September 18, 2014.

A Short History of Performance Engineering, Ignite session at Velocity, Santa Clara, CA, June 24, 2014.

Load Testing: See a Bigger Picture, ALM Forum, Seattle, WA, April 1, 2014.

Performance Testing: Respect the Difference, Software Quality Days, Vienna, Austria, January 16, 2014.

Agile Aspects of Performance Testing, Performance and Capacity Conference by CMG, La Jolla, CA, November 6, 2013.

Performance: See the Whole Picture, Ignite session at WebPerfDays, New York, NY, October 17, 2013.

A Short History of Performance Engineering, Ignite session at Velocity, New York, NY, October 14, 2013.

Load Testing: Which Tool to Choose?, Testing Experience, September 2013, pp.24-26.

Agile Aspects of Performance Testing, Belgium Testing Days, Brussels, Belgium, March 1, 2013.

A Bird�s-Eye View of Load Testing, Software Test & Quality Assurance, December 2012, pp.6-15.

Performance Testing in the Cloud: Look Beyond the Word, Testing Experience, December 2012, pp.7-8.
German translation Performancetest in der Cloud: Ein Blick auf die Bedeutung des Wortes, Testing Experience DE, Nr.3.

Performance Requirements: the Backbone of the Performance Engineering Process, paper and presentation, CMG Conference, Las Vegas, NV, December 7, 2012.

Load Testing: See a Bigger Picture, paper and presentation, CMG Conference, Las Vegas, NV, December 6, 2012.

Performance Requirements in Agile Projects, Agile Record, August 2012, pp.57-67.

Load Testing: Use a Right Approach to Mitigate Performance Risks, WebPerfDays, Mountain View, CA, June 28, 2012.

Web Performance Daybook Volume 2, O'Reilly Media, 2012, Chapter 17, How Response Times Impact Business, pp.103-105.

Load Testing: Respect the Difference, Testing Experience, June 2012, pp.6-12.

Performance Requirements: An Attempt at a Systematic View. Part II, Software Test & Quality Assurance, January 2012, pp.6-11.

Performance Assurance for Packaged Applications, CMG Conference, Washington, DC, December 9, 2011.

Performance Requirements: An Attempt of a Systematic View, CMG Conference, Washington, DC, December 7, 2011.

Agile Performance Testing, Agile Testing Days, Potsdam, Germany, November 15, 2011.

Performance Requirements: An Attempt at a Systematic View. Part I, Software Test & Quality Assurance, June 2011, pp.36-39.

Harnessing Test Harnesses, WOPR16, Cleveland, OH, April 28-30, 2011.

A Load Testing Story, CMG Conference, Orlando, FL, December 9, 2010.

The Obscure World of Performance Requirements, CMG Conference, Orlando, FL, December 9, 2010.

Agile Performance Testing, Agile Journal, February 2010.

A Performance Engineering Story with Database Monitoring, CMG Conference, Dallas, TX, December 8, 2009.

Agile Performance Testing, Software Test & Performance, November-December 2009, pp.20-26.

An Experience Report with Database Monitoring, WOPR12, Indianapolis, IN, April 16-18, 2009.

Agile Performance Testing, paper and presentation, CMG Conference, Las Vegas, December 11, 2008.

Building Responsive and Scalable Applications panel, CMG Conference, Las Vegas, December 11, 2008.

Gauging Performance, Software Test & Performance, January 2008, pp.18-24.

Multiple Dimensions of Performance Requirements, CMG Conference, San Diego, December 7, 2007.

Load Testing: Points to Ponder, CMG Conference, Reno, December 5, 2006.

Workload Generation: Does One Approach Fit All?, CMG Conference, Orlando, December 7, 2005.

Effective Load Testing, Software Test & Performance Conference, NYC, November 3, 2005.

Load Generation in Complex Environments, Software Test & Performance Conference, NYC, November 2, 2005.

Load Testing for the Diverse Environment, Software Test & Performance, October 2005, pp.22-30.

Load Testing: Points to Ponder, Journal of Computer Resource Management, Issue 115, Summer 2005, pp.20-28.

Effective Load Testing, Software Test & Performance, March 2005, pp.33-39.

Load Testing as a Part of the Software Development Cycle, Philadelphia CMG, November 19, 2004.

Using LoadRunner for Unsupported or Difficult to Parameterize Protocols, Mercury World, Orlando, FL, November 7-10, 2004.

What is Specific in Load Testing?, WOPR2, Palo Alto, CA, April 15-17, 2004.

Does One Approach Fit All?, WOPR1, New York, NY, October 2-4, 2003.

Custom Load Generation with Rational Test, The Rational User Conference, Lake Buena Vista, FL, August 18 - 22, 2002.

Custom Load Generation, CMG, Anaheim, CA, December 2-7, 2001.

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