Archive for September, 2007
Friday, September 28th, 2007
Book Description
As a developer, you are aware of the increasing concern amongst developers and site architects that websites be able to handle the vast number of visitors that flood the Internet on a daily basis. Scalable Internet Architecture addresses these concerns by teaching you both good and bad design methodologies ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Book Description
Want your web site to display more quickly? This book presents 14 specific rules that will cut 20% to 25% off response time when users request a page. Author Steve Souders, in his job as Chief Performance Yahoo!, collected these best practices while optimizing some of the most-visited pages ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
Book Description
Learn the tricks of the trade so you can build and architect applications that scale quickly--without all the high-priced headaches and service-level agreements associated with enterprise app servers and proprietary programming and database products. Culled from the experience of the Flickr.com lead developer, Building Scalable Web Sites offers techniques ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
The verdict is in... LoadRunner 9.0 is a bust. Based on Mercury's track record with new releases, it isn't too surprising that the latest release of LoadRunner is buggy. What is surprising is how many steps backwards the product has gone with very few new features. The ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Welcome to PerformanceEngineer.com! Here you'll find a plethora of information and links about software performance and performance testing:
articles in several Topics
links to performance related News from around the Web
a Forum to ask questions and exchange ideas
a Glossary of performance testing terms
Links to other performance related web sites
Registered users see ...
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Friday, September 7th, 2007
This video has been around for about a year, but I just came across it. It is pretty interesting and worth watching. For experienced performance engineers, there isn't a lot of new territory covered, but some interesting comments on tools and processes used at Google.
If you don't ...
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