Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 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. The dynamic architectures represent a major challenge for both monitoring and analysis. – Cloud. – Agile.

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DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Performance engineering requires analysis of the performance and resiliency of each component level and the interactions between these. it still mandates understanding and applying end-to-end best practices for achieving the required performance requirements at the overall component architecture level.

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DZone

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Do you know how to test mobile performance? Below is a quick start guide on performance testing a mobile application.

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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. While it was always recommended to start performance testing earlier, it was usually rather few activities you can do before the system is ready.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Júlio explains a machine learning algorithm to reduce the scope of load testing and get meaningful analysis from your data faster In this Quality Sense episode, Fede has.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Testing includes integration tests, which assess whether the code functions as intended when interacting with other services and application functionalities. It can also include performance testing to determine if the application can effectively handle the demands of the production environment.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). Current challenges with performance testing. Dynatrace news.

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DZone

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Learn how to test your app's performance! When developing complex, high-availability software projects, performance is of key importance. Can Your App Handle the Load? That is especially true in these modern times where anything other than lightning-fast accessibility of real-time data is punished.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Quality gates after load/performance testing Teams can use quality gates to evaluate performance metrics. Before a new version of the application is deployed, the software is subject to a series of load tests that evaluate capacity and performance under a series of simulated traffic and application demands.

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DZone

JULY 12, 2019

Performance testing and engineering is always a niche area with many challenging objectives across the globe. The challenge of performance testing with performance engineering is far more complex and requires one to be multi-skilled to find problems/issues/defects.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

One way to apply improvements is transforming the way application performance engineering and testing is done. This involves new software delivery models, adapting to complex software architectures, and embracing automation for analysis and testing. Performance-as-a-self-service . Get started today! .

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform already comes with release analysis, version awareness , and Service Level Objective (SLO) support as part of the Dynatrace Cloud Automation solution , helping DevOps and SRE teams automate the delivery and operational decisions. Performance as a Self-Service (JMeter, Neotys, Locust,).

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Speed Curve

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Both of these metrics are available in Chromium browsers (Chrome, Opera, Samsung Internet, etc) via the Performance API: performance.getEntriesByType('paint'). My analysis will look at performance data from some popular websites in an attempt to figure out whether the paint timing metrics really do answer that question.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

Therefore, we implemented Dynatrace in almost all major applications for our customers to gain visibility from end-user to code-level and to reduce time with problem fixing and pro-active scalability optimizations by using Dynatrace’s AI-based root cause analysis. Automation : Single load test executions can be repeated and tracked.

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The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

At Netflix the term “performance” usually encompasses both performance metrics (in the strict meaning) and memory metrics, and that’s how we’re using the term here. Why do we run Performance Tests on commits? What are the Performance Tests? Ideally we catch regressions before they even reach the main branch.

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

If we talk about commercial vendors targeting the corporate market, I guess only Neotys remains independent and active (I mean contributing into the performance testing ecosystem – innovation, publishing content, participating in events, etc). Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland).

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

In Dynatrace they used the Multidimensional analysis view to analyze incoming PurePaths (=End-2-End distributed traces) split by online service endpoint. To analyze why those requests are taking several seconds the team went ahead and used Dynatrace’s CPU hotspot analysis to identify where in the code additional CPU is spent.

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DZone

JUNE 16, 2021

Application Performance Index. If, like me, you have some difficulties in making a Pass/Fail call for your performance tests when given the Summary Statistics of the performance test results, then the Apdex metric may come in handy.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing. Executing an internal test can tell you how well your application or site handles an increase in traffic, but it will never reflect real-world conditions.

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DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In order to ship new updates of your app with confidence, you should efficiently analyze app performance during development to identify issues before they reach the end-users. This post will discuss what the best approach is to using emulators versus real devices for mobile performance analysis.

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Dynatrace

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The screenshot below shows a PurePath that was shared with me by our partner triscon from Vienna, which specializes in Load and Performance testing for large enterprise applications. Having this additional context as part of the PurePath speeds up the analysis and diagnostics work for performance engineers, developers, or architects.

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DZone

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Learn how to design your tests. In this blog, we overview what is and how to perform test design (and, which is at least as important, how not to perform it). Going forward, a test basis is ‘the body of knowledge used as the basis for test analysis and design’.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The platform also offers analysis capabilities within the Release Inventory page in addition to each distributed trace. Dynatrace also allows you to automate the analysis and calculation of the health score for new software builds and production releases. Dynatrace has built-in awareness capabilities for releases, builds, and versions.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Next time Keptn must evaluate SLIs/SLOs for either quality gates, performance analysis after a performance test, or during auto-remediation, it will pull the metrics from that dashboard. For that Keptn already offers integrations with JMeter and Neoload with other testing tool integrations in the works.

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Testlodge

MARCH 12, 2024

Functional testing Regression – Regression testing involves examining existing code alongside new code to verify existing functions still work as expected after introducing new code. Smoke – Smoke testing is a form of build verification. It involves a quick analysis of the most primary system functions.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 24, 2017

The article doesn’t concentrate on automated regression testing (which would be discussed here later) and perhaps quite a lot of other topics – but it is not supposed to be a comprehensive textbook on the topic. 6) We get in even more interesting area when we switch to performance testing.

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Scalegrid

OCTOBER 24, 2019

ScaleGrid’s MySQL on AWS High Performance deployment can provide 2x-3x the throughput at half the latency of Amazon RDS for MySQL with their added advantage of having 2 read replicas as compared to 1 in RDS. MySQL on AWS Performance Test. AWS High Performance XLarge (see system details below). Amazon RDS. Instance Type.

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Dynatrace

MAY 28, 2020

Now, while we’ve been pushing these concepts in Keptn we haven’t explained well enough how to level-up your existing load testing scripts for better SLI monitoring and how to integrate them with Dynatrace in order to reap all the benefits of SLI-based Performance Analysis. Step #4: Tag your Load Testing steps.

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Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance Test. In order to see which DBaaS provides the best PostgreSQL hosting performance on DigitalOcean, we are comparing equivalent plan sizes between ScaleGrid PostgreSQL on DigitalOcean and DigitalOcean Managed Databases: ScaleGrid PostgreSQL. Compare Pricing. PostgreSQL Benchmark Setup.

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Alex Podelko

JULY 13, 2018

That, of course, should involve more automation to performance checks. As well as analysis and reporting should go beyond arithmetic and include some AI/ML. Are there any industry trends that you find either overrated or underrated in regards to performance?

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Dynatrace API is used to automate your monitoring tasks, export different types of data into your third-party reporting and analysis tools, and to integrate into workflow tools such as Jenkins. Information events can be added to existing Jenkins pipelines to the steps where code is deployed, and performance tested.

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Scalegrid

JULY 8, 2019

A good example would be slow query analysis. While almost every DBaaS offers a MySQL Slow Query Analyzer tool to help identify trouble queries, this task still requires human skill and intuition to determine how to optimize those queries impacting their application performance.

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DZone

MAY 15, 2020

You can never be sure about the quality of your in- development software unless you test it first. And this is exactly what testers do for you.

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DZone

OCTOBER 9, 2020

We founded StormForger Load and Performance Testing SaaS in 2014 and while much has changed since then, one thing hasn't. HTTP is with its 24 years a well-aged fellow among the web protocols.¹ ¹ Today we are mostly using HTTP/1.1²

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Testsigma

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

We perform testing from the starting of the flow till the end of the flow. Functional Testing can be easily automated once the features being tested are stable and are not expected to go through a lot of new changes. Performance Testing. Different types of performance tests are-.

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DZone

MAY 9, 2019

In this article, we’ll introduce bncov, an open-source tool developed by ForAllSecure (available at on GitHub ), and demonstrate how it can be used to answer common questions that arise in software testing. At its core, bncov is a code coverage analysis tool.

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