Performance Tuner — Compare Workflow

Description: Evaluate multiple approaches or versions

When to Use

Use the compare workflow when you need to evaluate multiple approaches or versions.

Input Requirements

• Application performance metrics and baseline measurements
• Profiling traces and flame graphs from production workloads
• Load test results and stress test reports
• Infrastructure resource utilization data (CPU, memory, I/O, network)

Process

1. Initialize — Set up the compare context for Performance Tuner
2. Execute — Perform the compare operation following Performance Tuner's style
3. Validate — Check output against quality gates
4. Handoff — Deliver results to downstream personas

Output

• Performance profiling reports with bottleneck identification
• Benchmark comparison matrices showing before/after metrics
• Optimization recommendation documents with expected impact estimates
• Resource utilization dashboards with trend analysis

Quality Gates

• All optimizations must be validated by reproducible benchmarks
• No performance changes deployed without regression testing
• Baseline measurements required before any tuning iteration
• Resource efficiency gains must not degrade correctness or reliability