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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. Otherwise we wouldn’t see so many commercial tools built on the top of open source including BlazeMeter (it is ironic that the article is posted on the BlazeMeter site), Flood, and OctoPerf.

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Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

MongoDB has the most advanced continuous performance testing I know about. MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it.

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

Dynatrace

The IDC FutureScape: Worldwide IT Industry 2020 Predictions highlights key trends for IT industry-wide technology adoption for the next five years and includes these predictions: Hasten to innovation. Read more details about PayPal in this blog who is an early practitioner for performance as a self-service. #2 Get started today! .

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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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Release readiness through AI-based white box resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace

Dynatrace

To do so we have successfully established AI-based White box load and resiliency testing with JMeter and Dynatrace, helping identify and resolve major performance and scalability problems in recent projects before deploying to production. Our solution to modernize this legacy approach is an approach we call white box testing.

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