Archive for November, 2007
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications provides an end-to-end approach for implementing performance testing. Whether you are new to performance testing or looking for ways to improve your current performance-testing approach, you will gain insights that you can tailor to your specific scenarios.
The information in this guide is based on ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
It seems (at least to me) that often the first thing a performance engineer, especially an inexperienced one, wants to do is start tuning the application- change settings, configurations, etc. to make it go faster. Who doesn't want to be the "superstar" that saved the company by enabling some ...
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Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Book Description
In these days of shortened fiscal horizons and contracted time-to-market schedules, traditional approaches to capacity planning are often seen by management as tending to inflate their production schedules. Rather than giving up in the face of this kind of relentless pressure to get things done faster, Guerrilla Capacity Planning ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
This is the second in a four part series about finding bottlenecks in an application or system.
Memory Bottlenecks
A memory bottleneck is a condition where a lack of memory (or general limitation of memory access) slows the performance or scalability of the application. I will discuss how to detect two ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
Introduction
There have been many books, articles and web sites dedicated to various aspects of performance testing: how to use load testing tools, how to create automated scripts, how to monitor servers, etc. etc. What I haven't seen, is any discussion about how to create a performance testing team: what ...
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