Archive for the ‘From The Web’ Category

Podcast: "Diving into Capacity Planning"

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 ...

Automation for the people: Hands-off load testing

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 ...

Testing for performance

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

20 New Rules for Faster Web Pages

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 ...

Pylot Dev Update - Web Performance - Release 1.0

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 ...

Performance Models: Software versus System

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 ...

DTrace isn’t just for Solaris 10

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

Pylot - Web Performance Tool - 0.2 Beta Release

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

I just quietly did a release of Pylot (my open source web performance tool).  You can grab it here.

J2EE Applications Performance Monitoring using insideApps

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.

Processor Utilization is Meaningless

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 ...