Alex Podelko
APRIL 18, 2021
MongoDB has the most advanced continuous performance testing I know about. It quite could be that some other companies have something interesting too – but they are not sharing that. [Another interesting project in that area is keptn , but that is about it. If I missed something interesting, please let me know.] MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it.
Alex Podelko
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
As I started to work for MongoDB, I started to get questions about MongoDB performance. We do have a lot of great resources that can help with MongoDB performance. First of all, it is MongoDB and Atlas documentation: Performance , Monitoring , and Query Optimization. Atlas Performance Overview and Monitor Your Cluster documentation. Production Notes have some performance-related information too.
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Alex Podelko
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Some time ago Federico Toledo published Performance Testing with Open Source Tools- Busting The Myths. While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.
Alex Podelko
DECEMBER 19, 2019
The CMG Impact conference (February 10-12, 2020 in Las Vegas) is coming. Looking at the program I have the same problem as I always had with CMG conferences – how could I attend all the sessions I want considering that we have multiple tracks? Even when I took out the sessions that don’t directly cover the topics of my primary interests as well as mainframe-specific presentations, I ended up with 21 sessions in 2.5 days.
Alex Podelko
AUGUST 18, 2019
Following up my post Are Times still Good for Load Testing? , I decided to answer multiple comments here separately. First, I’d like to elaborate on “It may be less need for simple load testing due to increased scale and sophistication of systems” I meant that the traditional way – testing the system before deploying in production using production-type workload – is not the only way anymore.
Alex Podelko
JUNE 12, 2019
My post Good Times for Load Testing was published in 2014. It is difficult to believe that 5 years passed… Are times still good for load testing? Well, yes and no. I am not so upbeat as I was in 2014. If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. If we speak about open source tools, we definitely see some improvement – but in many areas they are still behind the best commercial tools (yes, many may not need these adv
Alex Podelko
OCTOBER 13, 2016
I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. It would be published as separate posts: – Introduction (a short teaser). – Cloud.
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