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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. Another major trend is using multiple third-party components and services, which may be not easy to properly incorporate into testing.

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PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 1 – Pros & Cons

Scalegrid

These sit between the database and the clients, sometimes on a seperate server (physical or virtual) and sometimes on the same box, and create a pool that clients can connect to. It creates yet another component that must be maintained, fine tuned for your workload, security patched often, and upgraded as required.

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A guide to Autonomous Performance Optimization

Dynatrace

If you want to see a more hands-on approach, I encourage you to watch the recording as Stefano did a live demo of Akamas’s integration with Dynatrace, showing how to minimize the footprint of a Java application with automated JVM tuning. Akamas is an on-premises product and simply needs one virtual machine to get started.

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Percona Database Performance Blog 2018 Year in Review: Top Blog Posts

Percona

Linux OS Tuning for MySQL Database Performance. 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. AMD EPYC Performance Testing… or Don’t get on the wrong side of SystemD.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I was mostly coding in C, tuning FORTRAN, and when I needed to do a lot of data analysis of benchmark results used the S-PLUS statistics language, that is the predecessor to R. The SE toolkit was fast, had no memory leaks (monitoring scripts could run for years) and let me implement lots of cool performance monitoring ideas.

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How to Make the Switch to Apica Synthetic for Application Monitoring

Apica

Our team has seen virtually every kind of situation, and our experts will be able to provide you with the best guidance. The account manager will talk you through the deployment options and be with you every step of the process, including monitoring and performance testing.

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Have You Tested Your App Performance & Capacity Recently?

Apica

The Apica LoadTest solution uses innovative technologies like monitoring nodes and load clusters to reliably deliver and sustain a large-scale load of virtual users (VUs) to Hollywood for different, realistic user scenarios all at the same time.

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