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APM is Broken
…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...Application Performance Engineering Drives Site Traffic Up
1. April 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.
Continue reading...Mobile performance engineering rules for the iPhone
21. March 2011
The following post was written by Israel Nir, Shunra’s head of research and analysis and Dror Vinkler, a lead developer on his team. It was developed as part of Shunra’s recent innovation around mobile performance engineering. The findings in this post became the basis for the new mobile performance engineering capabilities to be released in [...]
Continue reading...Being slow is not hip!
21. March 2011
The following post was written by Israel Nir, Shunra’s head of research and analysis. It was developed as part of Shunra’s recent innovation around mobile performance engineering, which is being released soon as part of Shunra PerformanceSuite 7.0 and other related products and services. This new innovation provides capabilities for testing the performance of mobile [...]
Continue reading...Application Performance Engineering and SLAs
1. February 2011
The following article by Jim Metzler covers the value in setting SLAs between IT and the business units that it serves. It does a nice job at mapping the role of SLAs to the application performance engineering process. What resonated well with me was a quote from Jim taken from “Alice in Wonderland” – “If [...]
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...Tuning applications and web sites for mobile users
23. July 2010
More and more of my clients recently asked me about performance engineering best practices for mobile applications. This came as no surprise as we observe the paradigm shift represented by more and more consumers performing more and more of their daily tasks via a mobile device. Here at Shunra we have been working with a [...]
Continue reading...Load Testing for Special Events and Holidays
9. July 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."
Continue reading...Shunra and the Cloud – It’s here!!
23. June 2010
For those of you following my recent posts, this shouldn’t come as much of a shock. Shunra now has an exclusive offer for beta tester of HP’s LoadRunner in the Cloud that lets them use Shunra for HP Software FOR FREE!
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23. May 2011