You can't hope for a rich harvest if your plants are in lousy soil. Farmers have known the secrets of a rich harvest for thousands of years. They plant their seeds on the best soil and provide water and care until everything is ready for the harvest. If farmers stopped removing weeds, providing water, or feeding their animals, their entire crop would be lost. Our IT industry finally adopted the secrets for a rich harvest in the last decade. We no longer release business appli

If you want to waste money, use the classic performance testing approach. What is the Classic Performance Testing approach? Tools first...

Time is the most precious resource that should be used wisely. So how do you manage your time? Like a slow website, we naturally feel...

Performance and Security are tightly interconnected. During one of our regular performance checks, we reviewed the four golden signals,...

Locking is a mechanism used in computer programming to prevent multiple threads from accessing a shared resource simultaneously to...

Nobody enjoys slow loading or erroneous applications, and bad user experience already significantly impacts commercial revenue. I’m still wondering why the average response time of mobile sites is 19 seconds. Personally speaking, I won’t wait more than 5 seconds for a page to load. Whether you follow a waterfall or agile-based development approach, there are three critical touchpoints you need to consider if you want to reach a satisfying user experience. I call these touchpo

With the rise of technology, the complexity of our business applications has dramatically increased. As a result, virtualization,...

Lessons learned in a 25 K user load testing project powered by open source.

Performance is your most important feature. If you’ve ever experienced performance issues in your customer-facing applications, I’m sure...

Troubleshooting performance issues can sometimes be a tough nut to crack! Customers are complaining about slow response times, and...

Shifting performance testing to the left is certainly a hot topic these days. All major companies have either implemented this practice...

We often find ourselves busy with too many things at the same time. Living in this kind of multitasking mode not only affects our health,...

Your project is running crazy when—in a last minute call—you’re asked to validate the response time and throughput of the new application...

A worrying number of defects have cropped up late in your project. Although your teams are in their best fighting mode, the test...

As the complexity of our IT landscape increases, our customers have higher performance expectations than ever before. Watching how my two...

What is the real value of rich applications developed with performance and security in mind ,and why do we often realize far too late...

Recently, I have been asked for a brief description on how to achieve outstanding responsive and lightning speed loading applications. A...

Gone are those times of static websites and thanks to AJAX and other new concepts the interaction with web-based services are very...

Many companies are cutting their IT costs. Outsourcing, out-tasking, and elimination of redundancies are some of those measures how...

New technology is popping up almost overnight, and the complexity of our applications is increasing. Virtualization, artificial...