This article was contributed from Keith A. Marshall, Lead Developer at Insight North America. Planning ahead has been my approach for the use of the dynaTrace. As much as dynaTrace is there to allow me to triage and investigate production issues at runtime, I believe that there is greater value in using the system as [...]
Performance is one of the major concerns in the cloud. But the question should not really be whether or not the cloud performs, but whether the Application in question can and does perform in the cloud. The main problem here is that application performance is either not managed at all or managed incorrectly and therefore [...]
// dynaTrace Labs just released the next update of dynaTrace AJAX Edition. Download it on our dynaTrace AJAX Website. After the major release in March which focused on Firefox and Cross-Browser Diagnostics this version comes with the following new features and enhancements: User Experience Report Experimental Support for Internet Explorer 9 New Categories for Performance [...]
From time to time I access my work emails through Outlook Web Access (OWA) – which works really great on all browsers I run on my laptop (IE, FF, Chrome). Guessing that Microsoft probably optimized OWA for its own browser I thought that I will definitely find JavaScript code that doesn’t execute that well on [...]
Keith A. Marshall, Lead Developer at Insight North America, talks about how he identifies certain transactions by injecting specific HTTP Headers “on-the-fly” using Fiddler. Performance and Scalability testing are two important components in our software development and applications deployment lifecycle. The more information that is correlated from the testing the better the picture we get. [...]
// Next Wednesday, May 25th at Noon ET / 9AM PT I am happy to host another Best Practice Webinar with one of our customers. Dan Gerard, Divisional Vice President of Technical and Web Services at The Bon Ton Stores and I will talk about the challenges of optimizing performance in their WebSphere Commerce production [...]
Stefan Frandl, Test Automation Team Lead at dynaTrace, recently upgrade of our dynaTrace platform from Java 6u23 to Java 6u25.Since this upgrade we are experiencing random crashes in the Hotspot Compilation Thread on Windows. More details on the crash, the submitted bug report and a potential explanation in our dynaTrace Community Article.
Christopher André is an Enablement Service Consultant at dynaTrace and helps our Customers to maximize their value they get out of dynaTrace. The other day, I went to a customer who was experiencing a problem that happens quite frequently: he had a cache that was constantly growing, leading to OutOfMemory Exceptions. Other problems in the [...]
Most articles about Garbage Collection ignore the fact that the Sun Hotspot JVM is not the only game in town. In fact whenever you have to work with either IBM WebSphere or Oracle WebLogic you will run on a different runtime. While the concept of Garbage Collection is the same, the implementation is not and [...]
Just in time for the upcoming Webinar with The BonTon Stores, were we talk about the challenges in operating complex WebSphere environments, we had another set of prospects running their applications on WebSphere. Francis Cordon, a colleague of mine, shares some of the screenshots resulting from these engagements. In this blog I want to highlight [...]
