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Tim Grant has worked in Web Performance since the late 1990s, ranging from web site load testing to Web site performance monitoring and consulting. During the 1990s, he worked in Instrumentation and Controls in manufacturing and Nuclear Engineering for the US Navy as well as the public sector. Tim enjoys RTS video games, running, and hanging out with his kids. Tim has an MBA from Virginia Commonwealth University and BS in Nuclear Engineering Technology from Thomas Edison State College.

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Application Performance Engineering Drives Site Traffic Up

Friday, April 1, 2011

If you are still wondering if Application Performance Engineering is worth the budget dollars, then perhaps you should be asking yourself how you will drive traffic to your site without Google.

Getting Accurate Results from Scalability Testing

Thursday, October 21, 2010

None of us want our sites to crash like the Chase site outage in mid September. I’m not privy to the details of that site crash, but I can tell you that many sites degrade under peak user traffic unexpectedly and eventually crash. Why? It’s often incorrectly performed scalability tests. Over the years, I’ve met [...]

3rd Party System Scalability? – “How Slow Can They Go”

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

“How Slow Can They Go?” ...You definitely need to identify how slow your 3rd party providers can go before it starts to affect the performance of your sites. ... don’t try to replicate that traffic, just impair the actual traffic...

Load Testing for Special Events and Holidays

Friday, July 9, 2010

The holidays are not typically on our minds this early in the year given that it is currently early July and over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in portions of the Eastern USA. On the other hand, if you have an ecommerce site that has changed since the Holidays last year, then perhaps you should be thinking about gauging your traffic and applying a peak load to the site. Let’s not forget that even the biggest logos have had issues during peak traffic. Many large sites including HP’s outage in 2009, Wal-Mart’s outage in 2006, in 2008 Bloomingdale’s and J. Crew went down, and many others have made the news in recent years because their sites were note ready for the traffic. "...Load testing without taking latency into account gives the site an unfair advantage during load tests, which does not exist in the real world."