Background
Each and every year IRS computer systems support billions of transactions. Their ability to perform even during seasonal peak demands are paramount to the agency’s ability to support its mission. IRS performance engineers closely monitor transactional and resource data to make scaling and tuning adjustments to ensure that services are both reliable and available when used.
Challenge
The IRS enterprise is a complex tapestry of systems and subsystems that use custom and COTS solutions that execute on multiple operating systems across many different platforms. Some systems are modern, while others were developed decades ago. The process of collecting and analyzing data from so many different sources is an arduous task. A system central to IRS tax processing is the second release of the Customer Account Data Engine. For years data was collected from its various components for analysis through labor intensive manual methods. The IRS needed a better way.
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