Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture

The term Business Transactions and Business Transaction Management is widely used in the industry but it is not always well understood what we really mean by it. The BTM Industry Portal provides some good articles on this topic and is definitely recommended to check out. The general goal is to answer business relevant questions that [...]

The QCon in Santa Clara  starts on Monday, 14th of November. I will be there as part of the dynaTrace team. If you have a chance to be there make sure not to miss my Talk on DevOps and Performance Management. I will also be on the Performance and Scalability Panel Thursday Morning, so don’t [...]

The Cloud Expo in Santa Clara  starts on Monday, 7th of November. As always I will be there on the dynaTrace booth. If you have a chance to be there make sure not to miss my Talk on Performance Management in the Cloud.  So if you are interested come to the dynaTrace booth for a [...]

The W3C Navigation Timing API has found its way into most modern browsers. It is also now already party supported in Firefox mobile and fully support on new Windows Mobile Phones. While this is a great step forward it should at the moment still be used with care. We at dynaTrace started  using the Navigation [...]

After announcing support for Firefox 7 in dynaTrace AJAX Edition Premium we now also provide support for the latest version of Mozilla’s Browser in dynaTrace AJAX Edition. The latest Beta update of dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.2 therefore gives you full JavaScript, AJAX, Network and Rendering analysis support for the latest versions of Mozialla Firefox and [...]

More and more people are talking about the end of synthetic monitoring. It is associated with high costs and missing insight into real user performance. This is supported by the currently evolving standards of the W3C Performance Working Group which will help to get more accurate data from end users directly in the browser with [...]

Most articles on the topic of NoSQL are around the theme of RDBMS vs. NoSQL. DBA’s are defending RDBMS by stating that NoSQL solutions are all dumb immature data stores without any standards. Many NoSQL proponents react with the argument that RDMBS does not scale and that today everybody needs to deal with huge amounts [...]