Performance vs. Scalability
After attending Sergey Chernyshev’s (@sergeyche) Scalability vs. Performance presentation at NY Web Performance Meetup and reading Scalability: it’s the question that drives …
Performance Testing Issues and Trends
And now, after my posts about agile performance testing and performance requirements in agile projects, we are getting to another fundamental issue …
Performance Testing and Agile Projects: Recollections and Resources
It looks like testingreflections.com, where I had blogged for a while, doesn’t exist anymore. One more confirmation that you can’t rely on …
My Recent Articles/Talks/Plans
Updated the list of my publications. Suddenly a lot happened in December. At the CMG Conference I presented the latest version of …
Why do I believe that everybody interested in performance should come to CMG’12?
CMG’12 is an annual conference organized by Computer Management Group – a volunteer organization of professionals specialized in performance, capacity, and IT …
Load Testing: What Tool to Choose?
Classifying and evaluating load testing tools is not easy as they include different sets of functionality often crossing borders of whatever criteria …
Load Testing: Its Present and Future
Recent trends of agile development, DevOps, Web and Social Media sites somewhat question importance of load testing. Some (not many) openly saying …
Performance Dimension of Information Technology
There are no standards on titles and skill sets related to performance dimension of IT. I decided to put together how I …
Performance Testing and Optimization for the Cloud
While many companies promote performance testing in the cloud (or from the cloud), it makes sense only for certain types of performance …
Increasing Transaction Rate: a Valid Performance Testing Technique
Just read a very good post Concurrency of Users Vs Increasing Transaction Rate by Jason Buksh about a pretty old question in …