Software performance engineering is becoming increasingly important to businesses as they look to improve the non-functional performance of applications and get more out of IT investments. By leveraging performance engineering techniques, IT professionals can be indispensable in building and optimizing scalable systems. Read more
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Tailoring Performance for Your Customers
Last week, my wife started giving me a hard time about my clothes. I had a trip to Europe coming up, and the official verdict from her was that my suits were simply “not enough”. Figuring I’d better do as I was told, I decided it was time to shop around for a new suit. Hoping to impress my wife, I wound up buying the best of the best. Read more
Five Important IT Capacity Management Trends for 2012
The increase in virtualization and cloud computing has significantly changed the scope and complexity of capacity management. Forecasting hardware needs is no longer enough. You must understand and optimize your business services, applications, and infrastructure through these new platforms. Read more
New Approaches to Real-Time Application Testing and Performance Monitoring: A Holiday Guide for the Retail Industry
According to a leading online retail research firm, this year’s Cyber Monday sales surpassed the $1.25 billion mark, setting the pace for the busiest online retail season in history. The key to this year’s success was deep insight into how web systems would handle realistic user traffic and where issues would occur. Firms must adopt the correct application testing and performance monitoring methodologies to ensure revenues and avoid disaster. Join SOASTA and Correlsense for this engaging webinar, which will give you an executable plan for your IT operations team. You will learn: Read more
IT Performance Metrics and Airplanes
I am writing this post on an airplane, traveling home from a great visit with a customer of ours. Well, more like a partner. It was the kind of meeting that makes me really love my job: working with smart people who run huge, complex systems in constantly-changing environments Read more
Monitoring Vs HR
In my many years of managing data centers and IT, I’ve had (and still have) the distinct honor to work with a diverse group of people – developers, SYS admins, DBA’s, first, second, and third level support. What I have … Read more
Is BSM Dead?
An event occurred recently which marked the end of an era. BSMdigest, an online publication covering our space, relaunced as APM digest. What exactly does this mean? This proves that the term BSM was never well equipped for describing our industry. The term should have never been applied in the first place. In my view, BSM is dead for a multitude of reasons.
Sometimes a Performance Problem Can’t Be Reproduced In a Test Bed
I attended the Greater Boston Computer Measurement Group’s fall conference a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised by the variety of topics discussed. However, among the plethora of bullet points described, one value proposition sticks out in my mind. Read more
What Can Pizza Deliveries and Hurricanes Teach Us About The End-User Experience?
Last night I ordered a pizza from one of the major chains. They have a fantastic, intuitive website that lets you order a pizza for delivery without ever picking up the phone. The site is full of useful features: a detailed menu, easy ordering etc. But the best feature by far is what wraps up the process. Once you’ve placed an order, you can check its progress from start to finish with a neat bar that pops up. The status bar tells you when your pie is being put together, when it comes out of the oven, when it’s in the driver’s car; the whole nine yards.
iPhones, Televisions, and Angry Birds, Oh My!
As I reflect today on Apple’s launch of iPhone 4S, I realize the concept of an “app store” has become part of our lives. More and more devices are supporting apps, and the ubiqitious app store is the method by which they are disseminated. When I’m downloading something for my phone, it isn’t supposed to be a long “sell cycle”. Sales guys don’t come to my apartment to show off the features. Nobody takes me to lunch. There is no golf involved. I just research the app, maybe by reading some blogs, and then I buy it.
