// With its latest release, dynaTrace updates its Product Suite for Deep Dive, Automated Cross-Browser Web Performance Optimization with two products: dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.0 is the free standalone tool that has been downloaded by 30k+ users so far supporting both Firefox (3.6, 4.0) and Internet Explorer (6, 7 & 8 ) dynaTrace Development Team [...]
Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture
// If you are serious about Web Development then I am sure you are working on Web 2.0 Applications leveraging several JavaScript Frameworks, making XHR calls to the Server to retrieve dynamic content and also include 3rd party content such as Ads or Social Network Plugins. You probably also have Selenium, WebDriver or any other [...]
Have you seen the dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3 Release Countdown on the dynaTrace Website? Only a couple of more days until the final release of dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3 will be available for public download! While waiting – here is a list of things that we have been working on in the last weeks FULL [...]
In my last post I explained what a major Garbage Collection is. While a major Collection certainly has a negative impact on performance it is not the only thing that we need to watch out for. And in case of the CMS we might not always be able to distinguish between major and minor GC. [...]
We have some power users out there that do great things with dynaTrace. One of them is Eugene who really got into dynaTrace Dashboards and custom Monitoring Plugins. He shared some of his dashboards with me to show to others. Interested in more? Read the full article What others do with dynaTrace Dashboards on the [...]
Testing and Optimizing of what I call “traditional” page-based web applications is not too hard to do. Take CNN as an example. You have the home page www.cnn.com. From there you can click through the news sections such as U.S, World, Politics, … – each click loading a new page with a unique URL. Testing [...]
This Thursday, March 24th at 10am CET, I am happy to host a Webinar on Performance in agile environments. Especially eCommerce shops have embraced dev-ops on top of agile development to bring new features to their customers faster. Together with one of our german parnters, PiazzaBlu, we will show the challenges that agile development and dev-ops pose to [...]
Our new book Java Enterprise Performance is now available. It covers all major topics around performance management for enterprise Java applications. The book targets software and system architects as well as developers. It starts with an introduction to performance measurement techniques and data interpretation. The following technical chapters cover all major technologies used in enterprise [...]
This Wednesday, March 23rd at Noon ET / 9AM PT I am happy to host another Best Practice Webinar with one of our customers. Ron Woody, Sr. Manager for Performance at GSI Commerce and I will talk about the opportunities and challenges of Web 2.0 with a special focus on eCommerce sites. Ron will talk [...]
We blogged a lot about performance problems in Internet Explorer caused by the missing native implementation of getElementsByClassName (101 on jQuery Selector Performance, 101 on Prototype CSS Selectors, Top 10 Client Side Performance Problems, …). Firefox on the other side has always implemented this and other native lookup methods. This results in much faster page [...]
