Showing posts with label: Performance

MicroFocus and dynaTrace recently announced “SilkPerformer Assurance” and with that announcement comes a tighter integration between MicroFocus’s Load Testing Tool SilkPerformer and dynaTrace’s Application Performance Management Solution for Load Testing.
Enough has been said about the partnership in the actual press release. Now it is time to look behind the marketing curtain and explore the details [...]

Besides blogging and speaking at conferences I often get the chance to co-host a Webinar with one of our customers. This week I am co-hosting with Bill Mar from SmithMicro talking about their Best Practices on Proactive Application Performance. After giving an introduction from the dynaTrace perspective we will hear from Bill why it is [...]

Along with so many others I am stranded in Europe waiting for my flight back to the United States right now. The Volcano not only impacts flights across Europe but also impacts web sites of airports, airlines and travel agencies around the world. Checking my flight status on Sunday was almost impossible. The website of [...]

This time I take an a bit unconventional approach towards defining performance management. The idea for this post came through a number of customer engagements, where the same question came up over and over again: “How do we start with Application Performance Management and what should we do?” Over time I developed a simple model [...]

In my last two blog entries I wrote about how to Use BizTalk Performance Counters and how to Analyze Adapter and Pipeline Performance. In this final blog I focus on Orchestration and calling external services.
Step 4: Analyzing Orchestration
Orchestrations can be as simple as reading a file from a file system, transforming it and writing it [...]

Remark: The analysis in this blog was done on masters.com on March 24th 2010. By April 2nd 2010 masters.com was re-launched with a new look and feel. Some of the problems highlighted in this blog are still on the re-launched site. I will publish another blog analyzing the current site, compare it with the old [...]

After my recent presentation at TSSJS – Performance Anti-Patterns in AJAX Applications – I got interesting feedback from one of the attendees: “The presentation was good but I thought you are talking more about actual problems with XHR/AJAX Requests”. I have to admit that I focused on all common problems of Web 2.0 applications – [...]

I’ve uploaded my slides on Performance Anti-Patterns in Ajax Applications for public download.
Thanks for all attendees in my session – hope it was useful. Here are some additional links I mentioned today in the talk:

Steve Souders Blog
dynaTrace AJAX Edition Download
Blogs on How To Analyze Pages like vancouver2010.com or utal.travel in a matter of minutes
Blog on [...]

SharePoint is without question a fast-growing platform and Microsoft is making lots of money with it. It’s been around for almost a decade and grew from a small list and document management application into an application development platform on top of ASP.NET using its own API to manage content in the SharePoint Content Database.
Over the [...]

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 [...]