Archive for the ‘From The Web’ Category
Friday, April 11th, 2008
A podcast that I did for TeamQuest Corporation, back in December, is now available. It's a somewhat unconventional take on the motivations for doing CaP, based on taking into account the apparently frustrating but otherwise very realistic perspective of management. During the podcast, I refer to the CMG Keynote given ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Load testing is often relegated to late-cycle activities, but it doesn't
need to be that way. In this installment of Automation for the people, automation
expert Paul Duvall describes how you can discover and fix problems throughout the
...
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
The third and final article in my SearchSoftwareQuality.com Testing for Performance series posted. The complete series can be found here:
Testing for performance, part 1: Assess the problem space
Testing for performance, part 2: Build out the test assets
Testing for performance, part 3: Provide information
Posted in From The Web, I'm A Scripter, Performance Testing | No Comments »
Saturday, March 29th, 2008
Update: Nice explanation in The importance of bandwidth versus latency of how long latencies cause cascading delays in resource loading. Doloto tries to optimize how resources are loaded.
Twenty new rules have been added to the original 14 rules for sizzling web performance. Part of scalability is worrying about performance ...
Posted in From The Web, Performance, Strategy, yslow | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Finally did the version 1.0 release! visit www.pylot.org to
download.
Pylot is still lacking some features I want to add for it to become a serious ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008
JXInsight is a comprehensive performance management and problem diagnostics solution that unlike most other competing solutions can be used across all application life cycle phases - from development through to production. Unfortunately this benefit presents its own set of issues to new users in selecting the type and degree of ...
Posted in From The Web, JXInsight, Metrics, Probes, SPE, Trace | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
I am not just talking about MacOS X or FreeBSD here. DTrace works great for Solaris versions prior to Solaris 10 as well. In fact, it works great for Linux and Windows too.
read more
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
I just quietly did a release of Pylot (my open
source web performance tool). You can grab it here.
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
deterMyne's insideApps enables the IT teams to look into the J2EE applications - inside out and help resolve performance problems without guessing the cause using recent JVM monitoring features.
Posted in From The Web, Java, J2EE | No Comments »
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Okay, maybe not totally meaningless, but the way that many people use the metric certainly is meaningless. This is especially apparent when it comes to what some believe is a black art - Capacity Planning. This ties back to my first blog entry when I spoke of how often simple ...
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