Performance Engineering Practices for Modern Industrial Applications at ABB Research
Heiko Koziolek · 2023
ABB is developing a vast range of software services for process automation applications used in chemical production facilities, power plants, and container ships. High responsiveness and resource efficiency is important in this domain both for real-time embedded systems and distributed containerized systems, but performance engineering can be challenging due to system complexity and application domain heterogeneity. This talk provides experiences and lessons learned from several selected case studies on performance engineering. It illustrates testing performance of OPC UA pub/sub communication, clustered MQTT brokers for edge computing, software container online updates, and lightweight Kubernetes frameworks while highlighting the applied practices and tools. The talk reports on challenges in workload modeling, performance testing, and performance modeling.