Tag Archive | "Web 2.0"
Application Performance Engineering and SLAs
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...HP tackles the challenges of load testing
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Video: Mark Tomlinson and Steve Feloney from HP address the risk of load testing Web 2.0 applications without considering WAN latency
Continue reading...Hosted Load Testing II
Friday, October 30, 2009
My friend Mark Tomlinson from HP recently wrote an informative blog about “Understanding the language of hosted load testing.” The blog touched on two competing approaches to application performance testing that were referenced as “behind the firewall” and “outside the firewall”. Behind the firewall testing usually means testing in a lab environment such as a [...]
Continue reading...Building Applications for a Remote Datacenter Part 1. The network impact
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
This series of posts is about the day after a data center move. Now that the data center is remote, how does this paradigm shift impact the way we should develop, test, deploy, monitor and troubleshoot applications. I will try to cover as many topics as possible, but the main focus is still going to be around the role application performance management plays in this new paradigm.
Continue reading...Predicting Cloud Computing Application Performance
Monday, February 23, 2009
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) – during the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” the promise of reduced OPEX, along with more reliable, flexible and scalable application services made Cloud Computing THE hot technology. Here’s a nice chart that lays out some of the major players and where they play. Cloud services, such as Amazon’s Web [...]
Continue reading...Will Businesses Be Able to Support a Paradigm Shift With Enterprise Software?
Monday, February 23, 2009
Many organizations are quickly realizing that the days of purchasing bundles of large scale software suites, such as an ERP, are coming to an end – maybe even faster than they could have anticipated. This trend has emerged due to the global recession, which many economists are saying will only get worse before it gets [...]
Continue reading...IT Investments During a Downturn
Monday, February 16, 2009
I am taking a class in “IT and corporate strategy” as part of my MBA program at the Stern School of Business at NYU. My professors Vasant Dhar and Arun Sundararajan recently published an interesting article in the Financial Times on IT investment strategy during a downturn (here). One key point that stood out for [...]
Continue reading...Testing Mobile Applications for Capacity and Scale
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Only by testing your mobile applications to scale, in a realistic environment can you understand how your application will perform once deployed. Understanding actual or potential problems can help you to know if the application needs to be changed, where the best locations are for your media servers, and how many subscribers you can support at any given time. This data is critical to the competitiveness and success of any mobile application business.
Continue reading...Web 2.0 impact on Managing Enterprise Applications
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Application development and delivery faces many new challenges for performance testing in a world of Web Services and Web 2.0 technologies such as mash ups. For successful APM, IT executives now need to manage a bigger picture in terms of defined through practices such as ITIL and COBIT. I was reading an article about how a single user, on [...]
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Tuesday, February 1, 2011
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