Sharkmob
As a game developer, Sharkmob had little experience with the actual ecommerce…
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Performance Engineering Team for High-Load Systems, Latency Fixes, and Peak-Traffic Scaling
Checkout slows down on the night your campaign launches. Reports queue up, the database CPU pins at 100%, and your engineers can’t trace the bottleneck before the next traffic spike. Hire a performance engineering team from Forbytes to profile the stack, fix the slowest paths, and prepare your platform for peak traffic.
When You Need a Performance Engineering Team
- Page load times climb as the catalog and user base grow
- Checkout, search, or API endpoints slow down under peak traffic
- The database CPU pins at 100% during business hours
- Background jobs queue up and reports take hours to generate
- Black Friday or campaign launches stress the platform past its limits
- Internal engineers spot symptoms but can't trace the root bottleneck
Results You Can Achieve with Our Performance Engineering Team
| Performance Outcome | Business Impact |
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| Faster page loads | Conversion climbs and bounce rates drop on revenue pages |
| Stable response times under load | Checkout, search, and APIs hold up through peak traffic |
| Lower infrastructure costs | The same hardware carries more requests after tuning |
| Predictable scaling headroom | The platform absorbs next year's volume without emergency work |
| Cleaner observability | Engineers see where latency comes from instead of guessing |
| Fewer production incidents | Bottlenecks surface in load tests before they hit real users |
Real Client Results
Guesty’s Owners Portal
Context and Challenge Our client, WeSports Group, is a leading Scandinavian group of brands…
Legacy Modernization
Context and Challenge Our client, WeSports Group, is a leading Scandinavian group of brands…
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Claims Management System
Context and Challenge Our client, WeSports Group, is a leading Scandinavian group of brands…
Key Results:
- 6x faster calendar syncs
- 10x faster onboarding flow
- 65% improvement in performance
Integration with Third-Party Services
Context and Challenge Our client, WeSports Group, is a leading Scandinavian group of brands…
Key Results:
- 6x faster calendar syncs
- 10x faster onboarding flow
- 65% improvement in performance
Our Performance Engineering Process
Performance AuditWe profile the stack and find where latency and load hit hardest.
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Optimization RoadmapWe sequence fixes by impact so the biggest wins ship first.
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Load Testing & ValidationWe test under realistic traffic before changes reach production.
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Bottleneck AnalysisWe trace slow paths through code, queries, and infrastructure.
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Targeted Fixes & TuningEngineers rewrite hot paths, tune queries, and add the right caches.
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Long-Term MonitoringWe watch the metrics that matter and catch regressions early.
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A Performance Team That Tunes Without Breaking Production
Senior engineers with 14+ years tuning high-load platforms
Safe profiling on production traffic, with zero user impact
Measurable wins each sprint with before-and-after metrics
Start with the Bottleneck That Costs You Revenue
Tell us which page, endpoint, or job slows down when traffic peaks. We’ll map a 90-day performance plan that targets the most expensive bottleneck without disrupting the business.
FAQ
What does a performance engineering team do?
A performance engineering team finds and fixes the parts of your stack that slow down under load. The team profiles production traffic, traces latency through code, queries, and infrastructure, and rewrites the hot paths that contribute most to slow response times. Engineers stop guessing at causes and start shipping measurable wins: faster pages, lower database load, predictable behavior at peak.
How do you find bottlenecks without slowing down production?
We run profilers and tracing tools that sample live traffic with negligible overhead. The audit pulls metrics from your APM, database, and infrastructure logs, then correlates them against real user paths. Heavier load testing happens in staging against production-like data, so we validate fixes before any change touches your users.
When is the right time to hire a performance engineering team?
Hire a performance engineering team when page load times keep climbing, when peak traffic forces emergency scaling, or when the database can’t support the next growth phase. It’s also the right call before a major launch, a holiday peak, or a regional expansion — the cost of finding bottlenecks under planned load is a fraction of the cost of finding them during a campaign.
How do you reduce risk during performance work?
We measure first, change second. Every fix lands behind a benchmark, runs through load tests against realistic traffic, and ships with rollback paths in place. The team works in small, measurable increments so the business sees the impact of each change instead of waiting for a single cutover.
What happens to our existing infrastructure during the engagement?
Existing infrastructure stays in place. The team profiles what runs today, fixes what blocks performance, and recommends upgrades only where the data justifies them. Some bottlenecks resolve through code and query changes alone; others need a cache layer, a database tune, or extra capacity. The call always traces back to measured impact, not technology preference.
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Forbytes created an app that allowed users to quickly measure themselves to be fitted for custom shirts. As a result, we could increase our speed, quality, and shirt output per week. Forbytes was dedicated to delivering a solution that accurately addressed our needs.
Forbytes’ engineers and team leads worked as part of our RnD group and were directly managed by our company directors. They were both proactive and adaptable, qualities that perfectly match our needs in our fast-growing and constantly evolving environment.
Forbytes has a strong process-oriented way of leading the company, with good respect for themselves and their managers. They made a choice not to become too big but build slowly on more qualified people, which is paying off.
Niklas Hammar
COO & Business
Development at Offerta.se
Our e-commerce site saw online inquiries and orders rise after working with Forbytes. The team used top-notch expertise to inform their suggestions and improvements. Constant communication, quick responses, and prompt delivery made for a smooth and enjoyable collaboration.
The Forbytes team was very professional and demonstrated a great understanding of the business aspects. All tasks were completed above expectations. Their experts were always available, and we never needed to wait for a response or a suggested solution.
