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Charlie Arehart from the Online ColdFusion Meetup Group invited me to talk about the challenges of JavaScript/AJAX Performance Analysis in modern Web Applications. The online meeting is free for everyone who is interested.
Time: Thursday, February 11th at 12 PM EST (previous scheduled for January 14th)
Details: More details can be found at Trace JavaScript/AJAX Performance in [...]

Microsoft is giving dynaTrace the opportunity to show the dynaTrace AJAX Edition in a Microsoft hosted MSDN Webcast:
Topic: Diagnose and Prevent AJAX Performance Issues with dynaTrace AJAX Edition
When: February 10th, 1PM EST (10AM PST)
Link to register: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032438718
I will be talking about the FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition and how to use it to diagnose and prevent common [...]

I sat together with Stefan Frandl, Test Automation Lead in dynaTrace’s R&D Lab in Linz, Austria to discuss how dynaTrace does Continuous APM in Development. Obviously dynaTrace takes performance very serious as we preach to our clients that Continuous Application Performance Management is a critical component across the Application Lifecycle. The earlier in the Lifecycle [...]

The extensible plugin architecture of dynaTrace opens many doors for our user community. dynaTrace users download additional monitor, task and action plugins on the dynaTrace Community Portal to extend the functionality of the dynaTrace APM Platform.
The latest addition is a plugin provided by MCG Systems out of Denmark. MCG created a plugin to monitor the Apache [...]

Zappos has become a billion dollar e-commerce leader not by just selling shoes, but by also re-writing many of the rules binding traditional corporate culture. They view their unique culture as the key driver of their extraordinary success – and at Zappos’ Core Value #1 is “Deliver WOW through service.”
For the engineers who deliver superior [...]

Inspired by a comment of Wim Leers on one of our other posts on web performance, I decided to switch plans and write this week about end-user experience monitoring. If you google end-user experience monitoring you will find a number of different approaches.
End- user experience – as I think we all agree – is the [...]

It is a fact that end user response time is critical for business success. The faster web pages are perceived the longer users tend to stay on the page and therefore spend more money and drive business.
In order to ensure that end user response times are acceptable at all times it is necessary to measure [...]

Inspired by the work of Stoyan on his performance advent calendar I decided to start an application performance almanac. According to wikipedia an alamanac is -”… an annual publication containing information in a particular field”.
Throughout the year I will write weekly posts on a specific topic in the area of performance management. I have chosen this domain [...]

Troubleshooting of performance problems is very often – if not almost always – viewed as a reactive activity. Frankly, I have often seen it done in such a reactive as a firefight; however effective troubleshooting should build upon a solid diagnostics process. If you handle troubleshooting as if firefighting rather than based on solid diagnosis, [...]

dynaTrace CTO and Founder Bernd Greifeneder talking about the future of Testcenters. Will test centers as we know them fade away? What are the drivers for changes and  how should test centers react to them?