Application Performance, Scalability and Architecture

The US Open is one of the major world sport events these days. Those tennis enthusiasts that can’t make it to the Centre Court in Flushing Meadows are either watching the games on television or following the scores on the official US Open Web Site. The question is: How long does it take to get [...]

Mozilla has released another update to its Firefox browser. The updated Beta build of dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.2 now also supports Firefox 6 as well as all previously supported browser versions: Firefox 3.6+, IE 6+ (IE 9 Experimental). Release support will follow shortly for both our dynaTrace AJAX Premium and dynaTrace AJAX Edition users. Deep [...]

A while back I hosted a Webinar with Ron Woody, Director of Performance at GSI Commerce (now part of eBay). Ron and his team are users of dynaTrace – both AJAX and Test Center Edition. During the Webinar we discussed the advantages and challenges that Web 2.0 offers – with a big focus on eCommerce. [...]

// Mozilla is fast with releasing new versions of Firefox and following fast is the dynaTrace team. As many of our users have asked about Firefox 5 support we are happy to announce that we have support with dynaTrace AJAX Edition 3.2 Beta. Release support for Firefox 5 will follow shortly for both our dynaTrace [...]

Last week at Velocity we hosted a Birds of a Feather Session (BoF) and offered the attendees to analyze their web sites using dynaTrace Ajax Edition. Besides finding the typical performance problems (no cache settings, too many images, not minimized content, …) we found several sites that had one interesting problem in common: OLD VERSIONS [...]

// Last year at Velocity we got the chance to announce dynaTrace Ajax Edition 2.0 with the new Performance Report that made Web Performance Analysis for Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 much easier.   Earlier this year we announced dynaTrace Ajax Edition 3 and the Premium Extensions including support for Firefox 3.6 and 4. [...]

Web Performance Enthusiasts can’t wait until next week when Velocity 2011 opens its doors. We are happy to be there as well. We are looking forward to great sessions and conversations with folks that care about Web Performance and Operations Topics. Make sure you stop at our dynaTrace Booth, catch us during the breaks, social [...]

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 [...]

// 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 [...]