Remark: The analysis in this blog was done on masters.com on March 24th 2010. By April 2nd 2010 masters.com was re-launched with a new look and feel. Some of the problems highlighted in this blog are still on the re-launched site. I will publish another blog analyzing the current site, compare it with the old [...]
Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture
I recently blogged about the Load Testing Capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 and the new extension interfaces that we from dynaTrace use to extend VS2010 Web- and Load-Testing to go beyond .NET and standard load-testing reports: VS2010 Load Testing for Distributed and Heterogeneous Applications powered by dynaTrace. Next week I am going to do a [...]
My colleague Ardeshir Arfaian (aka Ardy) is hosting a Webinar next week showing how to use the dynaTrace Development Edition in a Continuous Integration Environment. He showed me his demo yesterday and I hope many of you can check it out -> it’s really cool!!. He will show How To Integrate dynaTrace with a build-server [...]
After my recent presentation at TSSJS – Performance Anti-Patterns in AJAX Applications – I got interesting feedback from one of the attendees: “The presentation was good but I thought you are talking more about actual problems with XHR/AJAX Requests”. I have to admit that I focused on all common problems of Web 2.0 applications – [...]
The FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition has been out for several months now. Thanks to a great and constantly growing user and community base we keep learning about what the typical performance problems in Web 2.0 applications are. In order to Get Started with the dynaTrace AJAX Edition some users keep asking about some guidance. We [...]
I’ve uploaded my slides on Performance Anti-Patterns in Ajax Applications for public download. Thanks for all attendees in my session – hope it was useful. Here are some additional links I mentioned today in the talk: Steve Souders Blog dynaTrace AJAX Edition Download Blogs on How To Analyze Pages like vancouver2010.com or utal.travel in a [...]
SharePoint is without question a fast-growing platform and Microsoft is making lots of money with it. It’s been around for almost a decade and grew from a small list and document management application into an application development platform on top of ASP.NET using its own API to manage content in the SharePoint Content Database. Over [...]
One of my daily activities is checking interesting blog posts on various performance related topics. Today I stumbled across the blog 10 Cool Websites with Amazing jQuery Effects. I started looking at these pages which really have nice UI features implemented with jQuery. What many of these pages have in common is that they contain [...]
I had an interesting conversation with our Test Automation team lead Stefan – who Andi interviewed for our “Eating our own Dog Food ” article – on his experiences with the willingness of developers to write performance tests. I asked a provocative question: do developers really want to write them in the first place? First [...]
Visual Studio 2010 is almost here – Microsoft just released the first Release Candidate which looks pretty solid and good. Microsoft added new interfaces for performance management solutions like dynaTrace to extend the Web- and Load-Testing capabilities (check out Ed Glas’s blog on what’s in VSTS Load Testing) to go beyond .NET environments and deeper [...]
