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I had an interesting conversation with our Test Automation team lead Stefan – who Andi interviewed for our “Eating our own Dog Food ” article – on his experiences with the willingness of developers to write performance tests.
I asked a provocative question: do developers really want to write them in the first place? First he [...]

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.
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In this post I will address top ten reports and their usefulness in performance engineering. Regularly I hear people saying: “Can you show me the top ten database statements” or something similar. Their approach to performance engineering is to look at the slowest or most time-consuming statements and then make them faster. While this is [...]

In this third article of my Performance Almanac I discuss the role of overhead in performance management. As a performance management solution provider we’re frequently asked “How much overhead does your solution have?” This question is however a bit more complex to answer than just giving a single number.
When discussing this topic I [...]

I sat together with Stefan Frandl, Test Automation Lead in dynaTrace’s R&D Lab in Linz, Austria to discuss how dynaTrace does Continuous APM in Development. Obviously dynaTrace takes performance very serious as we preach to our clients that Continuous Application Performance Management is a critical component across the Application Lifecycle. The earlier in the Lifecycle [...]

The extensible plugin architecture of dynaTrace opens many doors for our user community. dynaTrace users download additional monitor, task and action plugins on the dynaTrace Community Portal to extend the functionality of the dynaTrace APM Platform.
The latest addition is a plugin provided by MCG Systems out of Denmark. MCG created a plugin to monitor the Apache [...]

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 [...]

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?

Just in time for Christmas dynaTrace Labs releases the next version of dynaTrace AJAX Edition. This version includes several bug fixes reported by our community as well as enhancements in the UI for easier data analysis. And – the Rocket Turtle seems to be ready for the holidays as well

Check out the Release [...]