Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve likely uttered the phrases “test early and often” and “shift left,” but do you always remind yourself of the importance of that phrase from the end user’s perspective? LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Strategy Testing Performance 40

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Testing for mishaps you can predict is essential. Chaos engineering is a method of testing distributed software that deliberately introduces failure and faulty scenarios to verify its resilience in the face of random disruptions. Practitioners subject software to a controlled, simulated crisis to test for unstable behavior.

Engineering 225

Engineering Entertainment Cloud Infrastructure 225

Testsigma

JULY 3, 2021

If you’ve been performing on-premise testing in your organization, you know the rules already. But for the uninitiated, on-premise testing is a form of testing where testers perform tests on local machines, systems, or devices set up at an office. On-premise testing comes with a lot of responsibility.

Cloud 57

Cloud Testing Storage DevOps 57

Dotcom-Montior

JUNE 19, 2017

Let’s face it – the ideal load test emulates real world traffic, yet most load testing software doesn’t come close. Held back by budget and infrastructure restrictions, some organizations have been forced to settle for load tests that paint an incomplete picture. Setting Up the Test. Creating a Script.

Performance Testing 40

Performance Testing Testing Performance Virtualization 40

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 26, 2020

All your JMeter results in Dynatrace for better performance engineering. Christian Inzko , Performance Engineer out of our Klagenfurt Lab, is running a lot of performance tests to validate performance and scalability of our Dynatrace clusters. Goal: sending metrics to Dynatrace. Raspberry Pi Model 3 B.

Innovation 154

Innovation Metrics Hardware Games 154

MachMetrics

JANUARY 23, 2020

You run a speed test on a website, and the results don’t match what you personally experience. Perhaps you feel like your site loads fairly quickly, but the speed test results are sub-optimal. It’s one of the most common (and frustrating) scenarios in web performance testing.

Speed 62

Speed Testing Website Cache 62

Testsigma

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

According to IEEE Std 829-1998, Software Testing is defined as “the process of analyzing a software item to detect the differences between existing and required conditions (i.e. ” With the advent of new technologies and new software being released every day, software testing is gaining more strength and accolades.

Software 69

Software Software Testing Scalability 69

Speed Curve

MARCH 7, 2022

You can see this by looking at the synthetic test result for Sears.com (again, available via our Industry Benchmarks ). In this recent test run from our Industry Page Speed Benchmarks , you can see that the Amazon home page ranks fastest in terms of Start Render. We need to monitor our pages consistently over time.

Mobile 145

Mobile Benchmarking Google Metrics 145

CSS - Tricks

JULY 25, 2019

This article is from my friend Ben who runs Calibre , a tool for monitoring the performance of websites. How Lighthouse calculates the Performance Score. During performance tests, Lighthouse records many metrics focused on what a user sees and experiences. Monitoring Time to Interactive. Recommended!

Google 71

Google Engineering Speed Mobile 71

Testlodge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Load testing is a form of non-functional testing that is carried out to understand the behaviour of an application under a specific user load. Why Load Testing? On that day, they realized the importance of testing for potential load on the server. Yes, loading testing is mighty important! Load Testing Parameters.

Testing 51

Testing Testing Tools Servers Network 51

DZone

AUGUST 16, 2019

It’s not just a simple tweak you can turn on/off; it’s a long-time process that touches almost every single item in your stack, including both hardware and software sides of the system. Application scalability is the potential of an application to grow in time, being able to efficiently handle more and more requests per minute (RPM).

Scalability 145

Scalability Efficiency Hardware Software 145

Adrian Cockcroft

JUNE 21, 2022

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. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

Tuning 52

Tuning Benchmarking Engineering C++ 52

Speed Curve

JULY 3, 2023

Those businesses perhaps have more awareness of the importance of performance optimization, along with the resources to monitor and tackle performance issues. Use performance budgets to fight regression Page bloat happens when people stop paying attention. Pages need to be monitored consistently over time.

Mobile 52

Mobile Google Metrics Retail 52

HammerDB

OCTOBER 12, 2018

This post complements the previous best practice guides this time with the focus on MySQL and MariaDB and achieving top levels of performance with the HammerDB MySQL TPC-C test. As is also the case this limitation is at the database level (especially the storage engine) rather than the hardware level.

Best Practices 40

Best Practices Scalability Performance C++ 40

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2020

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it affects everything from accessibility to usability to search engine optimization, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Testing And Monitoring. Now you have something measurable to test against.

Performance 145

Performance Cache Network Metrics 145

Smashing Magazine

JANUARY 7, 2019

Performance isn’t just a technical concern: it matters, and when baking it into the workflow, design decisions have to be informed by their performance implications. Testing And Monitoring. You can then mimic the 90th percentile’s experience for testing. Now you have something measurable to test against.

Performance 103

Performance Cache Metrics Network 103

High Scalability

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

If you develop something then you own the lifecycle of that product, which means you would work with QA, DevOps to ensure it’s tested/deployed. When it goes to production you would monitor it using the various internal tools like New Relic/Grafana, Kibana and if there is a regression you would fix it.

Architecture 52

Architecture Cache Azure Storage 52