Showing posts with label: Performance

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here you can find some selected material on performance related topics which I also covered in my talks at JAX London.
For a couple of performance related presentations I recommend to have a look at the slides of the Performance Workshop of W-JAX 2009. The cover a number of performance related topics from the technological basis [...]

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 [...]

Web Site Performance is impacted by many factors and it also impacts your business. When a user interacts with the web site and it feels slow it can be caused by slowly executing JavaScript, massive DOM Manipulations, a slow network connection, latency, an overloaded web server, slow running server-side code or inefficient database queries. Web [...]

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 [...]