I recently got engaged with a client who ran an increasing load test against their load-balanced application. I got engaged because they had a phenomenon they couldn't explain - here is an excerpt of
In this post I discuss the seven most important steps to improve your application performance practices. These simple-to-follow practices will help you to improve the way you deal with applicatio
Over the last couple of years performance of web applications became more important to businesses as search engines (such as Google) factor in performance into their ranking. This ultimately leads to&
Time to First ImpressionThis is the time from when the URL is entered into the browser until the user has the first visual indication of the page that gets loaded. The first visual indication is the f
by Alois Reitbauer, Jun 08, 11 Response times are in many – if not in most – cases the basis for performance analysis. When they are within expected boundaries everything is ok. When they get to hig
1) Use the most recent version of JDK /JRE For each major Java™ release "train" (e.g.J2SE 1.4.2, J2SE 5.0, J2SE 6.0) Sun/Oracle publishes update releases on a regular basis. For example the