Ready for the Rush? How Leading Organizations Prepare for Peak Demand

Peak traffic events leave no margin for error. Whether the trigger is a product launch, seasonal surge, or high-visibility campaign, application slowdowns during these moments directly threaten revenue, customer trust, and brand reputation. Preparation, not luck, separates the teams that stay online from the teams caught firefighting.

In this webinar, we will explore how leading organizations prepare for peak demand and turn readiness into a repeatable, measurable practice.

You will learn:

• Practical strategies top teams use to validate performance before critical events, including load testing at scale to simulate realistic, high-concurrency traffic.
• Real-world lessons from performance experiences across financial services, retail, and streaming, with a focus on the gaps that most often cause failures.
• How to build a repeatable readiness process using shift-left performance testing in CI, AI-powered analysis to surface bottlenecks faster, and APM integrations for clear root-cause visibility.

Don’t leave your next critical event to chance. Discover how to validate performance, uncover hidden risks, and ensure you’re ready for whatever traffic comes your way.

This is a sponsored webinar with Perforce. Sponsorship buys the session, not a TestGuild recommendation. Learn more about Perforce here.

Speaker

Don Jackson

With over 25 years’ experience in the Application Delivery Management (ADM) space as a consultant, solution owner, developer, tester, architect, and vendor, Mr. Jackson is recognized by colleagues, peers, and ADM professionals for his informative and innovative demonstrations, seminars, webinars, videos, and podcasts. His expertise and experiences in ADM around SAP solutions and the broader enterprise IT ecosystem, helps him convey to the audience complex topics in a manner that is relatable and easy to understand.

With over a decade of experience as a QA and Support Engineer and a deep background in test automation dating back to 2001, Shane has built a career at the intersection of software quality and product innovation. A former Product Manager for LoadRunner and UFT, Shane later led search initiatives at Splunk before co-founding GameDriver in 2018 to bring automated testing to the gaming industry. Currently serving as Director of Product Management at Perforce, Shane continues to drive strategic growth and innovation across developer tools and testing solutions.

Scott Moore

With over 30 years of IT experience with various platforms and technologies, Scott is an active writer, speaker, influencer, and the host of multiple online video series. This includes “The Performance Tour”, “DevOps Driving”, “The Security Champions”, and the SMC Journal podcast. He helps clients address complex issues concerning software engineering, performance, digital experience, Observability, DevSecOps, DevPerfOps, and AIOps.