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Performance Testing - Tools, Steps, and Best Practices

KeyCDN

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. Before you begin tuning your website or application, you must first figure out which metrics matter most to your users and establish some achievable benchmarks. What is Performance Testing?

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MySQL on Azure Performance Benchmark – ScaleGrid vs. Azure Database

High Scalability

While Microsoft offers their own Azure Database product, there are other alternatives available that may be able to help you improve your MySQL performance. Microsoft Azure is one of the most popular cloud providers in the world, and a natural fit for database hosting on applications leveraging Microsoft across their infrastructure.

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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

Dynatrace

In reality, only highly scalable RUM solutions can collect data on all user actions, while less scalable tools must sample user actions and make inferences from partial data. Because pre-production environments are used for testing before an application is released to end users, teams have no access to real-user data.

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HammerDB MySQL and MariaDB Best Practice for Performance and Scalability

HammerDB

InnoDB is the storage engine that will deliver the best OLTP throughput and should be chosen for this test. . For anyone benchmarking MySQL with HammerDB it is important to understand the differences from sysbench workloads as HammerDB is targeted at a testing a different usage model from sysbench.

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Android Device Testing: A No-hassle Guide For Testers

Testsigma

Owing to the wide market range of Android apps, an average user has plenty of other alternatives and if we have to retain our existing customer base and attract new users, our apps have to perform without any snag. Unlike iOS development, Android development requires proper standards and varying benchmarks for performance and optimization.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I became the Sun UK local specialist in performance and hardware, and as Sun transitioned from a desktop workstation company to sell high end multiprocessor servers I was helping customers find and fix scalability problems. Paul Reithmuller was yet another imported Australian engineer who did amazing work.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

After seeing companies struggle to find and fix frontend performance issues, Billy left HP and founded Zoompf, a web performance optimization company acquired by Rigor in 2015. Prior to founding start-ups, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital , the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo!, Paul Irish.