While preparing for my presentation Load and Performance Testing: How to do Transactional Root-Cause Analysis with Visual Studio Team System for Testers that I gave at the Boston .NET User Group on May 13th I came across certain load-testing topics. One was: How to randomize Input Data. If you go with Visual Studio you can [...]
Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture
Functional Testing has always been an activity done by Test Engineers using Functional Testing tools like QTP from HP/Mercury, SilkTest from Borland/Segue, Functional Tester from IBM/Rational, … But time is changing – so is Functional Testing – and the things you can do with it. In this article I talk about The Past – Functional [...]
I am pleased to have been re-invited to the SharePoint Technology Conference hosted in Boston from June 22nd to 24th. I will be delivering two talks about SharePoint Performance Management on wednesday, June 24th. If you attend the conference and if you want to learn more about how to make your SharePoint based Applications perform [...]
I am going to present at the upcoming SOA World 2009 in New York on Monday, June 22nd. My session is scheduled from 5:20 PM to 6:05 PM where I will be talking about “Lifecycle APM – Strategies for Optimizing Application Performance in SOAs” Check out the full session description and join me if you [...]
In my previous blog post I discussed that interoperability is not just about letting systems talk with each other. Having the technology to connect different platforms is only the first step. One major problem in heterogeneous systems is the lack of a common set of tools that enable you to easily find the root cause of a [...]
Thanks for all participants of the San Francisco Bay Area SharePoint User Group. Those of you who want to have the slides and the sample code please send me an email and I will send it to you.
Microsoft and Sun recently announced their Open Source Project Stonehenge at the JavaOne conference. Stonehenge is a reference implementation that shows how to bridge the two major development platforms Java and .NET using Web Services. This initiative definitely puts the spotlight on heterogeneity and the challenges that come with it. Interoperability on the platform level [...]
I’ve been invited to speak at two SharePoint User Group Meetings this week Silicon Valley SharePoint User Group on Wednesday, June 10th (THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED) San Francisco SharePoint User Group on Thursday, June 11th I will be talking about most of the problems I’ve seen in the past year when working on SharePoint [...]
I already listened to a couple of talks on the cloud. The whole cloud topic start to grow up, meaning more and more application scenarios for the cloud are appearing. Yesterday there was a very useful classifcation of cloud services. The differentiated cloud services at a couple of different levels. Infrastructure as a Service – [...]
Its day 2 at JavaOne 2009. I had the chance to attend some of the sessions and talk with exhibiting vendors as well as attendees. One of the most interesting topics for me was the – let’s call it – “Empowering of the Browser”. The Browser is more and more becoming the application platform for [...]
