Measurement is the most central concept in any performance-related activity. If you are not measuring you are blind. As important as measuring per se is collecting the right measurements. Which metrics are the right ones depends on what you want to do. However there are some general principles which – when followed – can make [...]
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During last weeks webinar – Charlie Weiblen from IntraLinks talked about how the manage performance of their SaaS running in their private cloud. You should listen to the full recorded webinar to learn more on how they transformed from traditional performance monitoring to performance management.
As a teaser to the webinar I want you to watch [...]
dynaTrace Forums have been launched to give the community a new platform to interact. dynaTrace AJAX community members will get access to the dynaTrace AJAX Forums – commercial dynaTrace community members will additionally get access to the dynaTrace APM Forums.
Whether you have feedback on dynaTrace, feedback or ideas for new dynaTrace Community Plugins [...]
We all know that slow performance – and service disruption even more – affects our business services and eventually our revenue. At the same time we say that major parts of companies are not willing to invest in performance. In this post I will discuss why we find ourselves in this paradox and how to [...]
Read full post >>Last week I blogged about the 6 Steps to identify the major web site performance problems on sites like masters.com. Unfortunately for me I did the analysis 3 days before they re-launched their website. The site looks really nice now – great job.
They fixed some of the problems I highlighted in the blog and also follow [...]
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 [...]
Read full post >>Charlie Arehart from the Online ColdFusion Meetup Group invited me to talk about the challenges of JavaScript/AJAX Performance Analysis in modern Web Applications. The online meeting is free for everyone who is interested.
Time: Thursday, February 11th at 12 PM EST (previous scheduled for January 14th)
Details: More details can be found at Trace JavaScript/AJAX Performance in [...]
Inspired by the work of Stoyan on his performance advent calendar I decided to start an application performance almanac. According to wikipedia an almanac is -”… an annual publication containing information in a particular field”.
Throughout the year I will write regular posts on a specific topic in the area of performance management. I have chosen this domain [...]
Week 1 – The Proactivity of Troubleshooting Jan 12, 10
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, [...]
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