DZone

JUNE 20, 2019

Growing up in performance engineering in the last decade, it was almost impossible to think of simulating load using a real browser because a performance engineer would need a lot of machines to simulate load using a real browser.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Quite often the whole area of load testing is reduced to pre-production testing using protocol-level recording/playback. – Cloud.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. – Cloud. – Agile. – Continuous Integration.

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Abstracta

AUGUST 7, 2020

What do restaurants and performance testing have in common? We’ll spoil the punchline… It’s servers that get stressed! In this episode of our software testing podcast, Federico interviews.

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KeyCDN

AUGUST 15, 2019

Web performance is a broad subject, and you’ll find no shortage of performance testing tips and tutorials all over the web. What is Performance Testing? In the context of web development, performance testing entails using software tools to simulate how an application runs under specific circumstances.

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. While this team uses Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) to run their chaos testing experiments, the Site Reliability Guardian is not limited to this testing practice.

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SQL Shack

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In this article, we will learn how to use Apache JMeter to perform a load test on SQL Server. This test type enables us to measure the application behaviors under specific conditions so that it enables us to observe a variety of resource consumptions (CPU, memory, latency, response times, etc) and it also helps to […].

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SQL Shack

JULY 28, 2020

In this article, we will learn how to test our storage subsystems performance using Diskspd. The storage subsystem is one of the key performance factors for SQL Server because SQL Server storage engine stores database objects, tables, and indexes on the physical files.

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Dotcom-Montior

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

LoadView, our on-demand, cloud-based load and stress testing platform , takes an outside-in approach to performance testing. Executing an internal test can tell you how well your application or site handles an increase in traffic, but it will never reflect real-world conditions. Identifying performance bottlenecks.

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SQL Shack

MAY 13, 2020

In this article, we will learn latch contention issues that we might experience in the SQL Server TempDB database. Especially, we will mention the Memory-Optimized TempDB Metadata feature that was introduced with the SQL Server 2019. We will also discuss reasons and the solution method of these latch contention issues.

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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. A series of GET requests from an in-house server can't possibly replicate what actually happens when a website sees a sudden increase in users from all over the world.

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SQL Shack

MAY 27, 2020

In this article, we will explain batch mode on rowstore feature, which was announced with SQL Server 2019. The main benefit of this feature is that it improves the performance of analytical queries, and it also reduces the CPU utilization of these types of queries.

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Scalegrid

APRIL 28, 2020

Meltdown Performance Impact on MongoDB: AWS, Azure & DigitalOcean. See performance tests to determine the impact of the Meltdown CPU kernel patch on your MongoDB servers. Comparing MongoDB Performance on AWS, Azure & DigitalOcean. Learn more.

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Percona

MAY 9, 2023

Background story I recently worked with a company running a large four-shard MongoDB Enterprise Server database cluster on VMs on premises that decided to migrate to the Google Cloud Platform. This can be MongoDB Enterprise Server, MongoDB Community Edition, or Percona Server for MongoDB. Don’t start the server yet!

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This time I would like to show my experience creating an End2End test for a Camel integration application that connects these layers: Apache Kafka. KIE server ( rules engine ). Apache ActiveMQ Artemis. PostgreSQL. Localstack ( AWS similar ). Red Hat Ingress upload service. Minio ( AWS similar ).

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Dynatrace

MARCH 9, 2022

Perform an audit on default settings of the application server. One suggestion I want to give them on their way is to look into the practices of Performance Testing and Chaos Engineering. You can test for them before releasing to production and can even simulate chaotic situations, e.g:

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Testsigma

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The type of applications that are being tested has changed as well, from (now) legacy client server-based applications to microservice-based or cloud-based architectures. This changes how teams test for quality. As technology advancement continues, we’ll see newer, more nuanced types of testing.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2022

T1 ADD CONSTRAINT PK_T1 PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ( grp , ord ) ; In my performance tests, I populated the table with 1,000 groups, between 1,000 and 10,000 rows per group (so 1M to 10M rows), and 5 distinct values. My test machine has four logical CPUs, running SQL Server ® 2019 Enterprise. Performance comparison.

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Smashing Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

The number of included performance tests and checks is outstanding! Yellow Lab Tools runs a number of audits, from CSS to JavaScript to performance and provides a detailed overview of issues and how to fix them. It also points out a too complex HTML structure, and it also checks your server and cache header configuration.

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

What’s that VM/Server Doing? – Industry experts share their unique experience on how to justify performance engineering. Performance Engineering as a Service: Enabling Performance Testing at Scale in a DevOps World Using Infrastructure Automation by Jaishankar Padmanabhan, Wayfair.

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

and are deployed using a web server. It is widely used for regression testing on mobile web applications that are updated frequently with new features. It is an HTTP server written using NodeJs and drives Android and iOS sessions using WebDriver protocol. No need for additional test environment setup and maintenance.

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Testlodge

JULY 3, 2019

In SOA, the application sends a request through the service provider’s server via an API gateway, which in turn returns a response. We have mentioned that the application talks to different services through different API gateways, so the first thing is to test the APIs or web services involved. Performance Testing.

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Testsigma

MAY 14, 2021

The traditional testing that was done on the software installed on local servers is now slowly fading away. With cloud-based testing, everything resides on the cloud and therefore the testing approach also changes where all testing related activities are done on the cloud and IT is delivered as a service.

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SQL Shack

JUNE 21, 2019

This article is a dive into SQL Server internals, performance testing, […]. Summary There are few topics so widely misunderstood and that generates such frequent bad advice as that of the decision of how to index a table.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Testing different base table cardinalities is just one dimension to try. I’ll present the performance tests that I’ve done with my solution. Let’s proceed to performance testing. I tested my solutions in SQL Server 2019 Enterprise edition. There could be many others. The challenge is on!

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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.

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DZone

AUGUST 26, 2019

So we need the testing tool to read the email message, parse it and navigate the link. The first challenge is to connect the testing tool with the mail server. It’s not a big deal if your mail server exposes a REST API. Mail Server API. To say the truth, it can be also achieved with Restmail.net.

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SQL Performance

JANUARY 12, 2022

You can enable its consideration without the requirements of batch mode on rowstore , e.g., using SQL Server 2019 Enterprise or later, by creating the following dummy columnstore index: CREATE NONCLUSTERED COLUMNSTORE INDEX idx_cs ON dbo. Curiously, SQL Server chose to use row-mode operators to handle this part.

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Testsigma

APRIL 23, 2021

Before moving on, we recommend checking out our post on when you should implement automation testing. . At Testsigma, we’ve got an automation testing tool that has over 2,000 devices for you to perform tests on real devices. Best Mobile App Automation Testing Tools.

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DZone

MAY 30, 2019

With the last blog , we set up scalable XCUITest and run them on a Continuous Integration server. The test executed in the CI server used headless simulators, however, we also need to set our tests to be executed on real devices. This is the last post in our XCUITest101 series.

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Scalegrid

JANUARY 20, 2020

Here are the two options we typically suggest: If the analytics job is running on the primary/master server, move it to a secondary/replica server. If the analytics job is already running on a secondary node, and the performance degradation is unacceptable, we recommend moving the jobs to a dedicated analytics cluster.

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Testsigma

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Web app testing : Optimized for mobile browsing and server-driven, the web apps should be tested for UI to ensure that all the elements of the app are aligned for different screens and resolutions. Since the mobile apps have limited storage space and power supply, test for memory utilization as well as battery usage.

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Testsigma

MARCH 23, 2021

We’ve written a detailed blog post on the strategy and tools required for testing a mobile application. We recommend you take a look at it before you perform Android device testing as it covers most bases. . When we perform tests at 15-20 % of battery power, we’ll know if our apps crash or slow down. Signup Now.

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SQL Performance

APRIL 13, 2020

To begin with, I often have at least two variations of an index that I want to test, sometimes more. I start with my baseline, then I create all the index variations, clear the plan cache, and see what SQL Server chooses. It's a function of frequency of execution, query importance/relevance, and the time I have available/allocated.

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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. This was followed by a greatly expanded second edition with some additional chapters by Rich Pettit.

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Percona

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In this post we will review the most important Linux settings to adjust for performance tuning and optimization of a MySQL database server. A Look at MyRocks Performance. Why MySQL Stored Procedures, Functions and Triggers Are Bad For Performance. AMD EPYC Performance Testing… or Don’t get on the wrong side of SystemD.

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SQL Performance

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Testing different base table cardinalities is just one dimension to try. I’ll present the performance tests that I’ve done with my solution. Let’s proceed to performance testing. I tested my solutions in SQL Server 2019 Enterprise edition. There could be many others. The challenge is on!

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