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Unleashed Technologies uses Shunra’s Applications to Optimize Mobile Site Performance
What happens when a web development company wants to build a website that is also mobile friendly? Unleashed Technologies is a web design, development and information technology services firm dedicated to bringing “best of breed” marketing technology solutions and IT infrastructure to businesses looking for sustainable growth. Although Unleashed Technologies has created many high-quality websites [...]
Continue reading...10 Top Predictions for 2012
4. January 2012
What is the IT crystal ball telling you about what’s hot in 2012? Shunra’s CEO Gary Jackson shares his 10 – no make those 11 – top projections in the IT world for this new year. It’s a tough market out there with the economy still muddling, but nonetheless, users expect faster responses and greater [...]
Continue reading...Just a Second
19. December 2011
1001, 1002, 1003, 1004…. That didn’t take much time, what could have happened? Actually when it comes to mobile websites, those few seconds can have a major impact on your revenue. Look what happens to mobile users when a minimal delay in response time is introduced. How many users will leave a mobile site with [...]
Continue reading...Etsy’s Mobile App – Attack of the Clones
23. November 2011
With the pre-holiday “how am I going to buy all those presents” panic in full swing, it was a relief to see that Etsy now has a mobile app for iOS. Considering how successful the Etsy website has been in marketing vintage and handicraft items, the accessibility of the mobile app should make finding gifts [...]
Continue reading...42% of organizations are moving apps to the Cloud. How many will fail?
29. July 2011
According to the World Quality Report, Performance is the second greatest risk in moving to the Cloud, and I think it should be #1 There are several nebulous concepts thrown around when Cloud as a topic is discussed. However, there is one thing for sure: for as many concepts there are discussed, many more risks, [...]
Continue reading...APM is Broken
23. May 2011
…or at least it’s not delivering on its promise of improving performance The value of Application Performance Management (APM) is perceived as “less than fair.” Over 80% of large and mid-sized organizations worldwide have made multi-million dollar investments in APM solutions with the expectation that these capabilities would reduce their production outages, quickly pinpoint the [...]
Continue reading...Performance Engineering – Why so many companies don’t get it – Part 3
21. December 2010
In the previous 2 posts we described several ways in which sub optimal performance engineering practices manifest themselves, as well as identified the lack of goal commonality between developers and performance engineers as one of the key reasons behind these sub optimal practices. In this post I want to look at the problem from a [...]
Continue reading...The time is right for Application Performance Engineering
20. December 2010
The time is right for Application Performance Engineering. It’s a simple statement, but a powerful one that will change the existing application lifecycle management paradigm. At Shunra, we have been working hard, together with our partners, at developing and defining a new performance management model that completes the existing APM frameworks. This post is a [...]
Continue reading...Getting Accurate Results from Scalability Testing
21. October 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 [...]
Continue reading...3rd Party System Scalability? – “How Slow Can They Go”
20. October 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...
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30. January 2012