Performance Engineering Meetup #9

Dive into real-world insights, best practices and hands-on strategies for optimizing software performance!

Performance Engineering is changing fast.

Modern systems are becoming harder to test, observe and troubleshoot, while AI, automation and increasingly complex application architectures are changing how engineers approach performance challenges.

The question is no longer whether these technologies will influence Performance Engineering.
They already are.

Event overview

🚀 Performance Engineering Community invites you to the 9th Performance Engineering Meetup!

This time we’ll dive into two challenges shaping Performance Engineering today: how AI is already changing the way engineers work and how to approach performance testing when modern mobile apps fight back.

Expect real-world examples, practical demos, lessons learned and plenty of engineering discussion.

Whether you're already working in Performance Engineering or simply want to understand how modern systems should be tested, observed and optimized at scale, this meetup is for you.

Come for the engineering. Stay for the discussions, networking and people.

Agenda

🤖 18:00 - AI-driven Performance Engineering. Not someday, but right now

Speaker: Artur Dudek (Sii Polska)

📊 Overview

AI in Performance Engineering?

For a long time, the answer was simple: too many hallucinations, too little real value.

But things have changed.

From Machine Learning and anomaly detection to MCP, tools, skills and AI agents, AI is becoming a practical part of everyday engineering.

Through animated storytelling and a real-world demo, Artur will explore how AI can accelerate daily tasks, simplify complex challenges and sometimes even unlock work that was previously difficult or impossible.

This is not about what AI might do someday.

It’s about what already works today and how it’s changing the way Performance Engineers work

📱 19:00 - What to Do When the App Fights Back? Load Testing Modern Mobile Apps in Practice

Speaker: Roman Ferstl (Triscon)

📊 Overview

Record the traffic, build the script, hit run.

With modern mobile apps, it’s no longer that simple.

They ignore the system proxy, encrypt without compromise, rely on HTTP/2 and come with protection mechanisms that can make recording difficult or even impossible.

In this honest field report, Roman will use two real-world applications to show why one can be recorded in minutes while the other stubbornly refuses.

Along the way, an AI assistant plays a key role, acting as a sparring partner that makes it much faster to assess an app’s “testability” before the real work begins.

This is not a tool demo.

It is a story about what actually works when modern mobile apps resist load testing.

🚀 What You’ll Take Away

✅ Why traditional record-and-replay often fails with modern mobile apps
✅ How proxy bypassing, strict encryption and HTTP/2 affect load testing
✅ How to use an AI assistant to assess an app’s testability upfront
✅ Which approaches actually lead to a working load test
✅ Why the API level is key to modern mobile load testing
✅ Why collaboration with the application team is essential

About the Speakers

👨‍🏫 Artur Dudek

Performance Solution Architect, Sii Poland

With nearly 20 years of experience in Performance Engineering and Software Testing, Artur specializes in designing performance testing strategies, building automation frameworks and transforming testing processes.

He has led engineering teams, developed custom testing solutions and helped organizations move from traditional performance testing toward modern Performance Engineering practices.

Passionate about innovation and knowledge sharing, Artur is also actively involved in the Performance Engineering community, exploring how AI, automation and agentic technologies are reshaping the way engineers work.

👨‍🏫 Roman Ferstl

Founder & CEO, triscon

Software developer by passion with an MSc in Astrophysics and many years of experience in Performance Engineering.

In 2018, Roman founded triscon, a company fully dedicated to Performance Engineering, where he drives modern approaches in performance testing, monitoring and CI/CD integration.

He is an active member of the Performance Advisory Council (PAC) and a regular speaker at international conferences.

About the Performance Engineering Community

The Performance Engineering Community brings engineers together to share real experiences, real problems and real solutions around Performance Engineering.

No textbook theory. No perfect success stories.

Just engineers talking openly about what worked, what failed and what they learned along the way.

And because great communities are built around people, not only technology, our meetups are also about conversations, networking and having a good time together.

Photos may be taken during the event and published on the social networks and websites of SII, Sabre, Pega, Allegro, Triscon and Grand Parade for promotional and marketing purposes. Your participation will be understood as consent to the dissemination of your image.

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