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Many times I have seen situations where an application or process grows incrementally to a point where it is no longer able to meet it’s SLAs (whether official or imaginary). The cause of this can vary but is usually:

Overworked/Unbalanced teams -  Too much effort dedicated to new feature-add and not enough to technical debt Poorly planned systems – Designs for immediate need without taking into account needs for things like instantiation or scaling of decoupled components. Poor maintenance/understanding – Lack of knowledge or effort to tune application/process to more effectively use resources. This can exist in both the application and infrastructure groups.

Usually the performance degradation is known early on but accepted because the business users are not making a big enough stink; or at least not big enough to reduce the drive for new features. In addition, lack of monitoring [...]

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