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Inspired by a comment of Wim Leers on one of our other posts on web performance, I decided to switch plans and write this week about end-user experience monitoring. If you google end-user experience monitoring you will find a number of different approaches.
End- user experience – as I think we all agree – is the [...]

Inspired by the work of Stoyan on his performance advent calendar I decided to start an application performance almanac. According to wikipedia an alamanac is -”… an annual publication containing information in a particular field”.
Throughout the year I will write weekly posts on a specific topic in the area of performance management. I have chosen this domain [...]

Troubleshooting of performance problems is very often – if not almost always – viewed as a reactive activity. Frankly, I have often seen it done in such a reactive as a firefight; however effective troubleshooting should build upon a solid diagnostics process. If you handle troubleshooting as if firefighting rather than based on solid diagnosis, [...]

dynaTrace CTO and Founder Bernd Greifeneder talking about the future of Testcenters. Will test centers as we know them fade away? What are the drivers for changes and  how should test centers react to them?

Rendering is one of the key influencers of the perceived performance in web applications. In order to optimize the rendering behaviour of a web application you have to first understand how rendering works in the browser. Mozilla provides a very good documentation on how rendering works in Firefox. Although we are talking here about Internet [...]

As promised to the participants of the Performance Workshop which was hold this Monday at W-JAX I created a blogpost where to post your questions to and where you will also find the workshop material. I am just in the process of compiling all the material for you and will finish this over the next [...]

I recently gave a talks on the behaviour of different JPA frameworks at W-JAX(Germany) and TheServerSide Java Symposium (Prague). As some people have asked me, I am publishing the samples as well. I would also give away the eclipse project, however with all the third party libraries I am sure I will end up not [...]

This week I presented at W-JAX on Performance in AJAX Applications. You can find the slides here.

View more presentations from Alois Reitbauer.

Additionally I propose everybody to try dynaTrace AJAX Edition for analyzing AJAX performance in Internet Explorer

Last year at devoxx I gave a talk on common pitfalls in performance management. Parleys has now put the talk online. A couple of people have been asking to get slides. Now you can even get the voice and the slides. In this presentation I give an overview of typical performance antipatterns. I discuss conceptual, [...]

Several years ago JavaScript was seen as a „playground“ due to compatibility problems with browsers and high maintenance costs. Under the term AJAX JavaScript made the breakthrough in the last years. One of the reasons is the availability of libraries and better support of the major browser platforms. Prototype, script.aculo.us and jQuery are under the [...]