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davidberg - who has written 18 posts on Application Performance Engineering Blog – Shunra Software.
Senior Product Manager
Testing Mobile Applications for Capacity and Scale
Only by testing your mobile applications to scale, in a realistic environment can you understand how your application will perform once deployed. Understanding actual or potential problems can help you to know if the application needs to be changed, where the best locations are for your media servers, and how many subscribers you can support at any given time. This data is critical to the competitiveness and success of any mobile application business.
Continue reading...Calling all Application Delivery Engineers
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Whether you’re developing applications or delivering applications, understanding how they will perform over the real world WAN is critical to your success.
Continue reading...Microsoft Visual RoundTrip Analyzer (VRTA)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
In a prior post, I mentioned a new tool – Microsoft’s Visual Round Trip Analyzer ( VRTA). The Microsoft Global Performance team has developed this innovative tool for visualizing application performance. Check it out at VRTA. I have tested it out with a few customer transaction traces and am quite pleased with the concise way it [...]
Continue reading...Slow website – What can you do?
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
For years, Shunra has been a mainstay for companies wanting to understand how their websites will perform around the world. Our suite of products offer companies many ways to understand what is happening, what will happen, and why. A common question we hear a lot is, “Now that I know there will be a problem, [...]
Continue reading...Latency and Web Performance
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The performance of web pages is an important topic for many IT managers. Speed, security, appearance, and reliability are common metrics for measuring performance. What is a mystery to many is what affects those metrics. The article, Web Performance Matters, Slowness Considered Harmful does a good job explaining key network influences on websites, common misconceptions [...]
Continue reading...Replacing Remote Load Generators
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Have you ever tried to run a test, only to find that your Load Generators half-way around the world are not responding? If any of that sounds familiar, then you might want to consider using network emulation instead of deploying Load Generators around the globe. By using an emulation solution, you can bring your testing [...]
Continue reading...Web page performance testing using WAN simulation
Friday, November 14, 2008
Everyone knows that performance of Web sites is critical to their success. In order to build a well performing Web page, everyone also knows that testing needs to be done early and often. What most people do not seem to know is what or how to test. This recent Microsoft Developer Zone Magazine article does [...]
Continue reading...Using WAN Emulation to get the most out of your OPNET investment
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Time and time again, I hear people telling me how vital OPNET analysis is for their applications. Whether you’re moving or consolidating a data center, deploying a new product, or simply debugging an issue with an existing problem, the detailed information that OPNET products can provide can be critical to your success.
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Tuesday, February 3, 2009