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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. How did you get into performance engineering? Most jobs I was offered were related to older technologies like Prolog/Cobol. While Federico definitely has good points there, there is some truth in these myths too.

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Performance Testing – Testing for Speed, Stability, and Scalability

Testlodge

These are performance issues, and today, we’re going to talk about how these issues can be identified early on with performance testing. What Is Performance testing? In software, performance testing is the process of determining how a system responds under a particular workload or task.

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How Dynatrace empowers performance engineering teams to test at scale

Dynatrace

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). Current challenges with performance testing. Dynatrace news.

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Switch to New Application Performance Testing

Apica

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in performance testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up?

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What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

Synthetic tests attempt to mimic both common and uncommon user behaviors, but even the best simulations are no substitute for the real thing. Users often interact with technologies in unpredictable ways that could reveal previously unknown issues. While this makes RUM more limited in scope, it doesn’t negate its value.

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How to boost SRE productivity with observability-driven DevOps

Dynatrace

Observability aims to understand what’s happening across all an organization’s environments and technologies, helping teams detect and resolve issues to keep systems efficient and reliable, and end users happy. Dynatrace adds an automated call to perform the SLO health score with continuous delivery pipelines.

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Switch from LoadRunner to a New Performance Testing Software

Apica

Understanding the market and this massive growth in applications, having a modern performance testing platform will ensure you can test streaming, API-based, and XML-based applications including set-top boxes and game stations among other application types in DevOps friendly way. The short answer is that they aren’t.