2010 is over and there has been a log going on in the application performance space. We started this project at the beginning of the year inspired by Stoyan Stefanov’s performance advent calendar of 2009. (There is also one for 2010). Now twelve months later we have our 2010 performance almanac available. According to Wikipedia an almanac [...]
Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture
We had quite a number of people showing interest in dynaTrace support for Firefox when we announced the Closed Beta Program. This week we handed out the first build of dynaTrace Ajax Edition for Firefox to a selected number of participants. The goal of the Closed Beta Program is to verify that the implementation delivers [...]
I recently got engaged with a client who ran an increasing load test against their load-balanced application. I got engaged because they had a phenomenon they couldn’t explain – here is an excerpt of the email: We have a jBoss application with mySQL that runs stable in a load testing environment with let’s say 20 [...]
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Is Your Business Ready to Scale? How to Combine the Power of Load Testing & Performance Optimization
In the holiday season of 2009 we worked with one of the Top 5 US Retailers to help them solve their performance and scalability issues. A year earlier they had a serious outage during the busiest online shopping time leading to tens of millions of lost revenue. Keynote and dynaTrace are hosting a series of [...]
We are using Confluence for both our internal Wiki as well as for our external Community Portal. I just came across a very nasty performance bug in the version we are running on our external system. We run 3.2 and the User Search Feature keeps me waiting several minutes each time I search for users. [...]
In the last year I did several Web Performance Optimization Workshops. Mainly with customers or members of our AJAX Community. We typically spent a couple of hours to look at their current web projects, analyzed potential performance problems and discussed how to speed these pages up. The outcome was both a better understanding of the [...]
Alois Reitbauer explained in detail how dynaTrace continuously monitors several thousand URLs and uploads the performance data to the public ShowSlow.com instance. More and more of our dynaTrace AJAX Community Members are taking advantage of this integration in their internal testing environments. They either use Selenium, Watir or other functional testing tools to continuously test [...]
