What Developers Learn from Triple A in Their First Week

Kaare Plesner
Kaare Plesner
June 12, 2025

For developers, starting in an environment with GiAPA installed can be a revelation. Within the first week of using the Triple A feature – Automatic Application Analysis – most developers go through the same three reactions:

  1. “Wait... our code does that?”
    Triple A reveals exactly how programs behave in production: which lines of code consume the most CPU, how files are accessed, and where time is lost. Developers often discover unexpected behaviors or redundant logic that went unnoticed in testing.
  2. “How did I not see this before?”
    It’s one thing to step through code in a debugger. It’s another to see real-world data showing how programs behave with production volumes, file sizes, and query patterns. Triple A connects the dots between theory and reality.
  3. “I can fix this.”
    Equipped with clear performance insights, developers quickly move from guessing to solving. Optimizations that once took weeks of trial and error can now be done in a fraction of the time — with confidence.

And the best part? It’s not just for legacy code. Even newly developed programs benefit from a quick Triple A check before being promoted to production. It's quality assurance for performance, built right into the workflow.

Summary:

Triple A turns developers into performance detectives — fast. By surfacing real usage data down to the source code line, it accelerates learning, improves code quality, and helps teams write smarter software from day one.

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