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Comments on the SEC Roundtable on technology
In October this year the SEC sponsored a technology roundtable to discuss how to promote stability in today’s markets. This is after a year with headline grabbing stock market failures; Disrupted...
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Mobile performance engineering
Mobile speed – for the performance engineer, you must account for the network. Web-user experience The end-user experience is greatly impacted by the network. No kidding right? This is occurring...
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What type of application are you building? The performance goals must be negotiated between the business stakeholders and the application Architect. To have a productive and two-way negotiation, you...
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Transaction performance and Ski Trails
While sitting on a slow triple chair lift, what do you think about? Well, a ski resort is a great way to demonstrate software performance and capacity concepts. You need a transaction rating scheme...
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Machine Data and Big Data
System log data is Big Data. Over the years I have been involved in a number of production rescue projects, where the system is either unavailable or in a degraded state. These are complex systems,...
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Performance Engineering and Agile Methods
Your are not Agile Integrating Software performance engineering with Agile software development methods. This should be easy, right? These two methods are not naturally suited for each other;...
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Performance Engineering Organizational Alignment
Where does a Software Performance Engineering team fit into the Enterprise? Shared services and business units Many Performance engineering teams end up somewhere, rather than placed somewhere. There...
View ArticleSoftware Performance Requirements
How fast, how many users, how many transactions (zoom, zoom) This post is about Project risk profile: Software performance requirements is about setting the performance and scalability context for...
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Software performance requirements – Business Workflow
Business Workflow Business workflow, business process The System response time must not impact the workflow. The transition from transaction to transaction must be seamless and the user must not notice...
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A Top Ten List of Software Performance problems
Some of the top reasons that your application/web site/mobile app is slow; 10) I thought you turned off the diagnostic logging 9) Do you really have to index a table with five years of history and...
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Software performance validation in development
Performance artifacts in development Where are your requirements and development performance artifacts? Over the years of being a performance engineer, I have been involved in a number of projects...
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Capture development artifacts with JMeter
Capture development artifacts with JMeter While JMeter is a great tool for performance and or regression testing, not every development environment is slated for performance testing. A prior post...
View ArticleIs your application ready for the cloud?
Server virtualization continues to grow. Gartner estimates that virtual OS instances will contribute 70.2% of total new OS instances for 2012 and reach 82.4% by 2016. While this trend is certainly...
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Getting Started with Responsive Web Design
With respect to building web applications today, an important trend is an approach called Responsive Web Design. Responsive Web Design is an implementation strategy that allows you to deliver content...
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Straw, sticks and bricks…layering for change
Everyone knows the story of the three little pigs. In this story each of the three little pigs made different choices about how to build their respective houses. One chose straw because it was the...
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The Mobile Toolbox: A Responsive World
As companies continue to embrace their mobile market, they are faced with both business and technical design challenges of how best to meet the needs of their users now and in the future. One...
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Apps Are About Focus and Value
So, you use Microsoft Word a lot. You might even be a power user. Did you know that you could enter a numeric dollar amount into Word and it could spell out the dollar amount? What about showing the...
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How Many Apps Do You Use Today?
Take a minute and count the number of devices you personally use to run Apps. What about within your household? Are you an Apple-only house or do you have a mix of different App platforms? Does your...
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Electricity, Wheat and a Password API
PHP 5.5 was released at the end of June, and a number of new features and extensions to the language were included. One feature that got me thinking is the simple to use password API based on the...
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Who Is The Next Generation of Cool in Mobile?
On October 23, 2001, Apple released the first iPod and forever changed the music industry. On June 29, 2007 the first iPhone was released and the smartphone market sprang to life. On April 3, 2010...
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