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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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How BizDevOps can “shift left” using SLOs to automate quality gates

Dynatrace

Quality gates are benchmarks in the software delivery lifecycle that define specific, measurable, and achievable success criteria a service must meet before moving to the next phase of the software delivery pipeline. According to Six Sigma Daily, poor testing leads to overruns amounting to up to 40% of an operation’s budget.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #1

SQL Server According to Bob

For specific information on I/O tuning and balancing, you will find more details in the following document. SQLIO.exe SQLIO.exe is a SQL Server 2000 I/O utility used to establish basic benchmark testing results. The SQLIO utility can be downloaded from the Microsoft Web site.

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