Ninety-percent of your users want your site to perform well during peak periods, like the last month or so. That’s according to a study by Compuware, in which they also found that most dissatisfied users will throw you under a bus if your app or site performs poorly while they’re desperately trying to buy the right gift for their very demanding loved ones.
In an application world driven by impatient and very vocal users, performance is king. Every year before Christmas we hear at least one horror story of a site that didn’t perform up to expectations and is promptly made an example by, well, everyone. I could probably fill this post with examples, but that’s not really the point. The point is maybe there’s a way to counteract that, in real time, thanks to the power of programmability in the network.