By Nate Rich, Principal Engineer, Foulk Consulting It’s 2:15 AM on a Saturday. Your phone is blowing up. You stumble to your laptop, eyes blurring, and open New Relic. You…

By William Perez, SAP Principal Engineer, Foulk Consulting For years, the phrase "SAP is different" has been the standard justification for why SAP development and testing teams operate in a…

By Caleb Billingsley, Performance Expert, Foulk Consulting Let’s get the uncomfortable statement out of the way: AIOps, as it’s commonly marketed to SAP customers, is oversold. Not because AI has…

By Nate Rich, Principal Engineer, and Caleb Billingsley, Performance Expert, Foulk Consulting In the world of software performance and QA, there is a recurring nightmare that keeps engineers up at…

By William Perez, SAP Principal Engineer at Foulk Consulting As the deadline for SAP S/4HANA migration draws closer, the debate in boardrooms usually centers on one question: Greenfield or Brownfield?…

By Caleb Billingsley, Performance Expert at Foulk Consulting “Shift Left” has become a default assumption in modern software delivery. In cloud-native and web development, teams test early, test often, and…

By Nate Rich, Principal Engineer at Foulk Consulting In the executive suite, we often talk about "visibility." We want visibility into our pipelines, our quarterly spends, and our market share.…

By Nate Rich, Principal Engineer at Foulk Consulting In my last post, I touched on the lifecycle of a high-performing observability strategy. We often spend 90% of our time on…

By William Perez, SAP Principal Engineer at Foulk Consulting In my previous post, I discussed the “Hidden ROI” of SAP testing, the idea that the true value of a testing…

By Caleb Billingsley, Performance Expert at Foulk Consulting Most executives don’t reject performance engineering budgets. They simply don’t understand the data being used to justify them. Latency charts. Percentiles. Apdex…