Becoming a Performance Engineer

Primarily focusing Web and it entities. Simple Google search will lead to learning these concepts. Most of the resources are available for free to learn.

🌏 Networking

• The Bits and Bytes of Computer Networking
• OSI Fundamentals
• How does the internet work?
• Deep-dive into HTTP(S) Protocol
• How SSL works?
• LoadBalancer
• CDN

🔢 Mathematics

• Statistics Fundamentals (Min, Max, Average, Median, Standard Deviation, Percentile, Histogram and more)
• Calculating virtual users and other parameters

☁️ Cloud

• AWS Cloud Practitioner Essentials

⚒️ Performance Tools

• Apache JMeter
• Micro Focus LoadRunner
• Tricentis NeoLoad
• Locust
• Grafana k6
• Gatling

⚡Concepts

• Virtual User
• Data Parameterization
• Correlation
• Runtime Settings
• Debugging
• Understanding Logs
• Creating Scenarios
• Execution
• Integration w/ Observability Tools
• Result Analysis
• Providing Recommendations
• Regular Expressions

📈 Workload Models

• Open vs Closed Workload Model
• Universal Scalability Law

📜 Programming Languages

• C
• Python
• Java
• JavaScript
• Go
• Bash

🐧 Linux

• Basic Linux Commands
• Networking

📦 Containers and its Orchestration

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Containerd
• Docker Compose

⚙️ General Tools

• Git
• YAML
• JSON

📊 Observability

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Jaegar

🐵 Chaos Engineering

• LitmusChaos
• Gremlin
• ChaosMesh
• Mangle