Archive for February, 2009
Monday, February 23rd, 2009
I've seen a lot of activity lately about using "the cloud" for performance testing. Here's the current run-down of load testing options "from the cloud:"
Open Source
Pylot - Web Load Testing from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
Grinder In The Cloud - A cloud based load testing environment
Load Testing From The ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Book Description
This practical book provides a step-by-step approach to testing mission-critical applications for scalability and performance before they're deployed -- a vital topic to which other books devote one chapter, if that.
Businesses today live and die by network applications and web services. Because of the increasing complexity of these programs, ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
Book Description
Success on the web is measured by usage and growth. Web-based companies live or die by the ability to scale their infrastructure to accommodate increasing demand. This book is a hands-on and practical guide to planning for such growth, with many techniques and considerations to help you plan, deploy, ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Software Engineering Radio has a podcast on Performance Engineering.
In this episode Martin talks with Chris Grindstaff about the fundamentals of performance engineering. The episode discusses when and how to work on performance of client- and server-side systems, what you should take into account during development to avoid performance ...
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