Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture

When something goes wrong who’s to blame? In this post I take a closer look at who is responsible when applications have performance problems. Interestingly very often the question as to who is responsible is at least as important as how to solve the problem. In order to not have to search for the responsible [...]

We have had some great Webinars with our customers in the past year – such as Zappos, SmithMicro, Peopleclick or Monster. Next week I am co-hosting a Webinar with Eric Thomas, Director of Advanced Engineering at Thomson Reuters. Eric will talk about their online services that millions of people rely on every day and how [...]

We all know that slow performance – and service disruption even more – affects our business services and eventually our revenue. At the same time we say that major parts of companies are not willing to invest in performance. In this post I will discuss why we find ourselves in this paradox and how to [...]

With more than 3 million downloads, Selenium is the world’s most popular functional testing framework. It allows web developers and QA professionals to automatically test how an application functions on multiple browsers, such as Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome and across operating systems, such as different versions of Windows and Mac OS. The FREE dynaTrace [...]

In his latest blog post, Steve Souders writes about the impact of performance on business success. I am not going to duplicate his content here as you can just go ahead and read his blog. I just want to highlight some very interesting points and give you some links to follow up resources. Performance is [...]

Our dynaTrace Community Portal is our gateway to our users. Especially with the rapidly-growing number of world-wide users of our FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition, it is necessary to keep track on how well our pages perform from around the globe to satisfy our “performance hungry” community There are two important questions we want to get [...]

I am happy to announce that the FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition was picked to be demoed at the upcoming Velocity 2010 Conference in Santa Clara, CA. I also just got word from the organizers of Velocity that you can save 20% when you register with the promotion code vel10fsp. If you make it to Velocity [...]

2 weeks ago I co-hosted a Webinar with one of our users – Bill Mar, Director of Engineering Services from SmithMicro Software. SmithMicro provides the backbone of our digital life by connecting different digital devices together. In his role, Bill works in the Wireless Business unit working on Voice-related services, e.g.: VoiceSMS or Visual Voicemail [...]

MicroFocus and dynaTrace recently announced “SilkPerformer Assurance” and with that announcement comes a tighter integration between MicroFocus’s Load Testing Tool SilkPerformer and dynaTrace’s Application Performance Management Solution for Load Testing. Enough has been said about the partnership in the actual press release. Now it is time to look behind the marketing curtain and explore the [...]