Application Performance Engineering Blog – Shunra Software

Performance Engineering Why so many companies don’t get it – Part 3

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 [...]

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Adding Network Performance Analysis to a Quick Test Pro Script

This is the second post in the series that covers the use of QTP with VE Desktop. In the previous post I showed you how to add network conditions to a QTP script. In this post I will expand the sample to automatically analyze the performance of transactions under network conditions. This leverages the built [...]

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Maybe IT Doesn’t Matter – but performance does

I recently read an article that is probably one of the most thought provocative pieces written about IT in recent years. It is titled is “IT Doesn’t Matter” written by Nicolas Carr and can be found here. As you can guess from the title it lays out a strong argument that as IT becomes more [...]

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Slow website – What can you do?

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, [...]

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