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Client-Side Performance Testing

DZone

Find out more about client-side performance! Client-Side Performance Testing Importance and Introduction. If you're worried about the performance of your web application, you need to test and analyze not only with what happens on the server but also with what happens in the browser.

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An approach to index tuning – Part 2

SQL Performance

In my last post , I started to outline the process I go through when tuning queries – specifically when I discover that I need to add a new index, or modify an existing one. This is where index tuning becomes an art. To begin with, I often have at least two variations of an index that I want to test, sometimes more.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Architectures

Alex Podelko

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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How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

Dynatrace

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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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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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 1 – Pros & Cons

Scalegrid

Using a connection pool in each module is hardly efficient: Even with a relatively small number of modules, and a small pool size in each, you end up with a lot of server processes. You either need an extra server (or 3), or your database server(s) must have enough resources to support a connection pooler, in addition to PostgreSQL.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

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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