Does your ALM help in Performance testing or Are you just ignoring this key aspect for Production

Performance testing is the ceremony most teams skip — until the day it matters. Load testing tools like JMeter have a steep learning curve: you need to know XML, understand thread groups, write extractors for dynamic tokens, and manually wire up the dependency chain between API calls. Got a student enrolment API? You can't test it without a valid student ID. No student ID means no test. So you hardcode one from the dev database, run the test once, and call it done. Load profiles are set once and never revisited. Geographic distribution is a concept, not a practice. And when the test finally runs, the results live in a JTL file that requires a separate tool to parse. Performance testing that should be continuous ends up happening once per release — if at all. Tricentis reports that 60 percent of organisations discover performance issues in production, not in testing.