With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft is shipping the next version of the popular ASP.NET MVC Framework with its IDE. A year ago I blogged about my findings when getting my hands on the first version of ASP.NET MVC. The MVC Framework provides really nice features that make it very easy to build web applications on [...]
Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture
Besides blogging and speaking at conferences I often get the chance to co-host a Webinar with one of our customers. This week I am co-hosting with Bill Mar from SmithMicro talking about their Best Practices on Proactive Application Performance. After giving an introduction from the dynaTrace perspective we will hear from Bill why it is [...]
Amazon EC2 offers the CloudWatch service to monitor cloud instances as well as load balancers. While this service comes at some cost (0,015$/hour/instance) it offers useful infrastructure metrics about the performance of your EC2 infrastructure. While there are commercial and free tools out there which provide this service, you might not want to invest in [...]
I just spent an hour to figure out why I couldn’t get BizTalk 2009 installed on my test machine. I finally figured it out and want to share this information so that you don’t have to waste more time on this problem than necessary. After installing BizTalk you run through the BizTalk Configuration Wizard. Either [...]
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How better Caching helps Frankfurt’s Airport Website to handle additional load caused by the Volcano
Along with so many others I am stranded in Europe waiting for my flight back to the United States right now. The Volcano not only impacts flights across Europe but also impacts web sites of airports, airlines and travel agencies around the world. Checking my flight status on Sunday was almost impossible. The website of [...]
Analyzing Rendering Activity is one of the many features of the FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition. Alois wrote a nice blog article that explains the internals of IE’s Rendering Engine and how rendering is analyzed with the AJAX Edition. Different patch levels of IE may cause problems In order for the AJAX Edition to capture Drawing, [...]
Lately I was checking out ShowSlow. The site is really great. It combines YSlow and PageSpeed metrics and visualizes them in a really nice way. When I clicked on the URLs Measured Tab I had to wait quite some time until the page finished downloading. While this page is really displaying a lot of information, [...]
Microsoft released the next version of it’s Development IDE Visual Studio 2010. In fact – VS2010 is more than just an IDE to write applications. It also became a testing solution with the built-in Web-, Load- and functional testing capabilities. In a recent blog post and in a recent MSDN Webinar I demonstrated the capabilities [...]
Last week I got several questions from our dynaTrace AJAX Community members regarding advanced features I mentioned in the blog 5 Steps to Automate Browser Performance Analysis with Watir and dynaTrace AJAX Edition: How to create custom timers in your own JavaScript code? How to automate dynaTrace AJAX Session capturing? How to capture values that [...]
In an earlier post I already discussed several approaches towards end-user experience (or performance) monitoring including their pros and cons. In this post I will present a simple real-world sample which shows the limits of performance traceability in AJAX applications. As I don’t like Hello World samples, I thought I’d rather build something a bit [...]
