Alex Podelko

Load Testing at Netflix: Virtual Interview with Coburn Watson

I exchanged several e-mails with Coburn Watson (@coburnw), Cloud Performance Engineering Manager at Netflix, and he was very kind to share very …

Load Testing: Which Tool to Choose?, an updated version of my original blog post, was published in the September 2013 issue of …

The Performance and Capacity 2013 Conference by CMG will be held November 4th through 8th in La Jolla, CA. The program is …

An interesting article Performance Testing Market Under Attack by Startups was posted in the WSJ blog. The author clearly don’t know much …

Performance testing is a very interesting area. From one side, it is rather an established discipline with thousands of people involved. From …

My post Breaking Performance Silos was published by Speed Awareness Month.

Here is my updated list of performance-related books. Books are grouped into a few categories just for convenience – some books fit …

My post What We Did All These Years – ITOA Yesterday and Today was published by APMdigest.

I needed to check if setting processor affinity would be able to minimize mutual performance impact of server programs running inside a …

A lot of discussions are going on around and how they would revolutionize college education. Of course, it would be interesting to …