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Performance Testing with Open Source Tools – Myths and Reality

Alex Podelko

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. How did you get into performance engineering? Did you consider other open source tools?

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The Future of Performance Testing

Alex Podelko

While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. That dictates changes needed in performance testing (and, eventually, performance testing tools).

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Are Times still Good for Load Testing?

Alex Podelko

If we speak about commercial load testing tools, we see rather a shrinking market and not too much innovation recently. Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland). Oracle Applications Testing Suite (OATS) entered sustainability mode stage. Open Source.

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A three-step implementation guide to answer-driven SLO-based release validation

Dynatrace

Don’t just take my word for it, hear from Mike Kobush , Performance Engineer at NAIC, who gave us a tour of his performance test automation using Dynatrace Cloud Automation. The innovative technology powering these recent and future use cases comes from Keptn , our recognized CNCF open-source project.

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

At Dynatrace’s annual user conference, Perform Las Vegas 2020 , Neotys and Panera Bread joined me in a breakout talk called “ Increase quality and agility with load & performance engineering as a self-service ”. Here is the definition of this model: ?. 1 Performance-as-a-self-service at Pay P al .

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A guide to event-driven SRE-inspired DevOps

Dynatrace

“This is a mouthful of buzzwords” is how I started my recent presentations at the Online Kubernetes Meetup as well as the DevOps Fusion 2020 Online Conference when explaining the three big challenges we are trying to solve with Keptn – our CNCF Open Source project: Automate build validation through SLI/SLO-based Quality Gates.

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Mastering chaos engineering experiments with Gremlin and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

Additionally, chaos engineering can be used to verify your monitoring. You might create chaos experiments which break single components of a distributed system and want to make sure that your monitoring system informs about such failures (but the system should work either way). to Staging) and re-tested. 3: 5 Steps.