Archive for September, 2007

Scalable Internet Architectures

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 ...

High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers

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 ...

Building Scalable Web Sites

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 ...

Review: LoadRunner 9.0 - Don’t do it!

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 ...

Welcome to PerformanceEngineer.com

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 ...

Using open source tools for performance testing

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 ...