Application Performance Engineering Hub

It’s already February and we’re watching some interesting developments in the social Web (Facebook IPO filing) and also in more traditional IT businesses (like Dell hiring a new head of software away from CA). But what’s that mean for application performance engineers? Maybe nothing, but it’s always smarter to be informed about the world around [...]

  While at the Web Performance meetup in Boston last week, I had the pleasure of speaking with William Toll about application performance engineering. We spoke about the importance of prioritizing your goals and paying attention to how well all your systems work together – apps, infrastructure and more. Above is William on camera with [...]

If someone approaches you and talks about consumer electronics not actually being the category within which applications fall, ask them to support their statement. Because as much as we like to think our applications are self-enclosed products that help the enterprise succeed, more frequently these days applications are finding their way into the pockets of [...]

When preparing applications and subsequently evaluating and tweaking application performance, a tool that’s been ubiquitous is virtualization. Without the ability to simulate environments, there’s a challenge in actually seeing how your applications perform. Further, you’re likely to be at a disadvantage when trying to measure or monitor the activity if you don’t have a walled [...]

I Just read a recent blog post  by Stephen Thair, which asserted that the current model of load/performance testing is broken. Stephen didn’t explicitly define what the current model of load/performance testing is,  but even if he refers to the record/playback approach, I wouldn’t say that it is broken. It has its limitations, as it [...]

The most wide-spread metric related to computer resources, especially in capacity management and production monitoring, is resource utilization. When you start designing a system, the available hardware resources are usually a variable. It is one of the goals of the design process to specify hardware needed for the system from the business requirements and other [...]

One of the interesting things application performance professionals do is look around the Web for successes and failures. When they find a site that bogs down horribly, they try to decipher what went wrong. Conversely, when they come upon a site that just screams, they want to know how the coder got the site to [...]

Tuesday, November 29, we packed up the gear and went into Cambridge, MA to talk to some smart people about application performance engineering. One of the folks we ran into was Greg Raiz (founder and organizer of Drinks on Tap), the owner of Raiz Labs and an accomplished app developer himself. We discussed briefly what [...]

My interest to performance requirement was started from a few practical questions about five years ago, and since that time I return to performance requirements again and again, trying to package the topic in a meaningful way. Now I am working on the second part of the Performance Requirements: An Attempt at a Systematic View [...]

Here at Application Performance Engineering Hub, we want to wish you and your loved ones a happy and healthy Thanksgiving. Of the things we’re thankful here at the Hub, we value our audience the most. So, please contact us with your thoughts on topics we should cover or specialists in the A.P.E. profession you think [...]