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Can Mobile Performance Engineering Help Conserve Battery Life?
Can Mobile Performance Engineering Help Conserve Battery Life? The following article builds a case for how performance engineering can help build more energy efficient mobile applications. Very interesting read, with strong reasons for why mobile performance engineering should be a critical part of mobile application development. http://www.research.att.com/articles/featured_stories/2011_03/201102_Energy_efficient?fbid=dekBGE2Kx9k I can picture how energy conservation will soon [...]
Continue reading...Application Performance Engineering and SLAs
Tuesday, February 1, 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
Tuesday, December 21, 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...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...
Continue reading...Tuning applications and web sites for mobile users
Friday, July 23, 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
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."
Continue reading...Shunra and the Cloud – It’s here!!
Wednesday, June 23, 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!
Continue reading...NEW! Application Performance Testing in a Virtual Environment
Monday, June 7, 2010
My previous post about LoadRunner in the Cloud spoke about how Shunra™ for HP Software not only works well in clouds, but actually “completes the picture” for anyone conducting performance testing of applications that will be accessed remotely. I am not alone with these statements. SAP Labs, HP and Shunra are pleased to announce the availability of a new whitepaper, released today, June 7, titled, “Application Performance Testing in a Virtual Environment.”
Continue reading...Using Shunra VE Technology in a VDI Implementation
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
The latest buzzword in IT is “Virtualization”. Of course, the acronym can be apply to many cases, but the most commonly used case refers to the PC replacement with new generation of “terminals” that are commonly referred to as “DV”, Desktop Virtual Infrastructure. No, we are not talking about the reincarnation of V-100 green screen [...]
Continue reading...The FCC Invites You to Check How Slow Your Internet Access Is
Friday, March 12, 2010
The FCC just released a set of tools designed to test a user connection to the Internet,both for PC platforms (works on IE and Firefox) and applets for Iphone and other smart phones. Just access www.broadband.gov and you will be prompted to review the national plan to deploy broadband and invited to test your own [...]
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Friday, August 26, 2011
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