Our technology landscape is changing all the time and impacts our daily lives. Twenty years ago, almost no mobile device existed, but...

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...

I assume many of you faced outages or slowdowns of your favorite services in the last few weeks. Our digitized world won't work without...

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

When applications slow down and crash, we know the root cause is often coding-related issues. Let's imagine your application has a search...

In today's fast-paced business world, companies are constantly seeking ways to optimize their operations and improve their bottom line. One key area that can greatly impact business outcomes is the identification and remediation of issues and inefficiencies in processes. However, finding these issues can often be like searching for a needle in a haystack, taking up valuable time and resources. This is where Gobenchmark's Remediation Plan comes in. Powered by cutting-edge AI t

Kafka is a successful messaging system; any company can use it in many powerful ways. A crucial part of Kafka is the capability to...

Converting unmeasurable metrics such as quality, effectiveness, scalability, and more into numbers seems complex. Let’s imagine a system or standard of measurement that can translate such metrics into intelligible form to simplify engineering practices and allow you to measure your maturity level in different areas. Gobenchmark translates intangible metrics into scores as maturity levels to represent how your systems work and how you can make them better. In this blog, we le

Every company must become proactive in terms of detecting and mitigating reliability risks. But do you still hope a one-time execution of...

Memory is still a critical resource in the 21st century. According to Moore's Law , the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles every two years but is the same also true for memory? History shows that improvements in memory are on a much lower scale compared to central processing units.

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

In recent weeks a new hype called ChatGPT became extremely popular. Millions of users were using this new AI-powered brain for writing...

Artificial Intelligence is bringing ground-breaking improvements across industries. One of the most recent developments is to make AI accessible to everyone. OpenAI implemented a so-called ChatGPT, a large language model chatbot that can also answer complex questions. I was curious and asked this ChatGPT six performance engineering related questions. Its answers were impressive, but there are also several tradeoffs everyone should consider. Preparation Register yourself at...

The Gobenchmark is a cloud-based application to simplify engineering practices. It helps businesses understand their blind spots, and the...

The holiday season brings us joyful moments when we can spend time with our loved ones, reflect on the year that is passing and reflect...

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

Do you want to know about an open-source performance toolbox that can help you plan your performance efforts? In this Podcast, Josef, the...

We at Performetriks believe that for Performance Engineering to work, it must put you on a journey where you learn concepts as you are doing things. The research agency Gartner put it very well: "There is an urgent need to fulfill heightened user expectations about the performance and availability of business-critical applications. To succeed, software engineering leaders need to develop their teams' competency in performance engineering to mitigate application performance ri

We upgrade our devices, such as phones or computers, weekly or as soon as a new version is available. Keeping our data secure and having the latest features available are among the top reasons for these frequent upgrades. These new features come with a price and require the full attention of product companies. They must support older device generations but also not introduce slowdowns or crashes. Still, you might experience massive performance issues after upgrading because t