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One of my daily activities is checking interesting blog posts on various performance related topics. Today I stumbled across the blog 10 Cool Websites with Amazing jQuery Effects. I started looking at these pages which really have nice UI features implemented with jQuery. What many of these pages have in common is that they contain [...]

Visual Studio 2010 is almost here – Microsoft just released the first Release Candidate which looks pretty solid and good. Microsoft added new interfaces for performance management solutions like dynaTrace to extend the Web- and Load-Testing capabilities (check out Ed Glas’s blog on what’s in VSTS Load Testing) to go beyond .NET environments and deeper [...]

Existing users of the dynaTrace AJAX Edition receive the update notification about the latest available version when opening your current dynaTrace AJAX Edition. Everybody else out there that needs a FREE tool for JavaScript/AJAX Performance Analysis for Internet Explorer 6, 7 & 8 can go ahead and download it from our download page.
What does dynaTrace [...]

In Part I of this blog series I gave a general overview of BizTalk – the components that are involved in message processing and talked about how BizTalk specific performance counters can help spotting problematic areas. In this post we go beyond performance counters (even though we still need them) and take a deep-dive into [...]

O’Reilly hosts another Velocity Online Conference on March 17th. It is all about web performance and a great resource for developers, designers, architects and those folks that actually run web applications. The best thing of all – IT IS FREE and it is ONLINE:
When: March 17th, 9AM-11:15 PST/12PM – 2:15PM EST
Conference Link: http://en.oreilly.com/velocity-mar2010
Registration: http://en.oreilly.com/velocity-mar2010/public/register/order Link
Speakers [...]

Zappos - the leading eCommerce site for shoes and apparel – recently talked about their best practices of delivering WOW Performance to their customers. Zappos re-architected their web-site and went from Perl to Enterprise Java as the need to scale and perform was driven by explosive business growth and performance problems in their old architecture.
Performance is the key [...]

Microsoft BizTalk enables companies to integrate and automate their business process (BPM). In a BizTalk environment messages are picked up by adapters and put through a robust message infrastructure where an orchestration engine allows you to implement your business processes. Along the way – a message takes – there are several points where performance of the overall [...]

Many Web Sites that use JavaScript frameworks to make the site more interactive and more appealing to the end user suffer from poor performance. Over the past couple of months I’ve been contacted by users of our FREE dynaTrace AJAX Edition asking me to help them analyze their problems. In doing so, I’ve developed a [...]

TechTarget is hosting another TheServerSide Java Symposium from March 17 – 19, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. This year they added a new track to the mix: TheServerSide Presents TheClientSide.
My session proposal to talk about Performance Anti-Patterns in Ajax Applications was accepted – so I have the honour to share the knowledge about JavaScript/AJAX Performance [...]

In the blog entry Eating Our Own Dog Food: How dynaTrace does Continuous APM Internally in Development with dynaTrace TA Lead Stefan Frandl we showed how dynaTrace uses dynaTrace internally for performance management early on in development.
Next week, Stefan Frandl and Ardeshir Arfaian are going to talk about the dynaTrace Way of Continuous APM, how [...]