Application Performance Engineering Hub

As I like to do from time to time, I’m sharing some details on a Webinar that you might find useful. Here are the details on the event….and feel free to click on over to the site to sign up for the Webinar. That link is HERE. Software performance engineering is becoming increasingly important to [...]

Looking for intelligent talk about IT Capacity Management? Then join this Webinar next Wednesday, January 18, 2012. Here’s the sign-up link. And here’s the description from the write-up on the site… The increase in virtualization and cloud computing has significantly changed the scope and complexity of capacity management. Forecasting hardware needs is no longer enough. [...]

A key area of focus for application performane engineering is the user experience.  You need to define the transaction response time goals, these will be confirmed with performance testing, and proactively monitored in production. This is a process that involves meeting with the business to get their expectations, negotiations for the response time goals, and providing [...]

The performance engineering discipline covers many different aspects for making sure your application is ready to be released into the wind and will provide an outstanding experience for your visitor.  These include performance testing and production monitoring, including the user experience. The results of a performance test must be a true indicator of the production [...]

Coming up November 30, Correlsense is hosting a free Webinar on DevOps. Speaker Amir Gabrieli, Senior Solution Architect at Correlsense, will be focused on leading a discussion around *Factors driving the emergence of DevOps *The challenges of DevOps Integration: management problems, deployment coordination and deployment automation *Use cases which illustrate the need for monitoring DevOps integration. Here’s [...]

One of the roles I play here at A.P.E. Hub is as the curator of content on the Web. No, I don’t manage the entire Internet or even a tiny slice – actually just this blog. But in that role I have to keep an eye out for folks who are adding value to the [...]

Whether you get industry publications tossed on your doorstep or receive email newsletters from application performance engineering groups, your goal (I assume) is always the same. You’re looking to further your knowledge base in the field and make connections with other professionals. That made me realize the other day that there are plenty of underused [...]

Similar to a post I wrote yesterday, this article on how Target is poised to prepare for the holiday makes you wonder how large retailers are going to protect themselves from outages. Here’s an excerpt… Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) — Target Corp. spent two years preparing to take control of its website from Amazon.com Inc. and [...]

In Read Write Web the other day, there was a post that detailed how RIM and others had been smashed with outages that affected user sentiment, productivity and the very concept of continuity. RIM was down for three days, Bank of America was down in March and lots of other big names (Amazon, Verizon LET, [...]

Next week, on November 8, there’s a Webinar being lead by Dan Juengst – a friend of the blog and a skilled IT professional over at Correlsense. During the free Webinar, Dan will talk about how more mobile users means that the lines of communication to your enterprise have changed. People are trying to connect [...]