Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
How E-Commerce Sites Were Affected by the Amazon S3 Outage
Update March 8th, 2017 We’ve been contacted by representatives from Express.com who stated that their S3 instance was effected by the outage but did not impact our website or our ability to transact commerce because of our failover and disaster recovery plans. After further investigation, their checks were failing because of third-party services on their … Read more
Top 6 API Testing Issues and How to Resolve Them
API TESTING SERIES Testing teams face several unique challenges when testing Application Programming Interface (API) implementations. API testing is part of the integrations testing process and concerns the communication between two systems–one of which your staff likely has no control over. Thorough testing practices help QA and development teams not only create code that works, … Read more
What Types of Bugs Does API Testing Find?
API TESTING SERIES nterface (API) testing, part of the integration testing process, aims to ensure APIs work optimally by identifying bugs in the programming that developers can fix. The process differs from other types of testing by functioning entirely on the data level of the application, ignoring issues like the GUI and ease of use. … Read more
API Testing: What Should You Really Test?
API TESTING SERIES Application Programming Interface (API) testing aims to secure and optimize communication between different platforms. This process examines many elements including debugging, identifying inconsistencies, pinpointing weaknesses, locking down security, and gauging performance. These different aspects of the API testing process often require separate tests but with some overlap. Any business utilizing APIs can benefit from … Read more
Cyber Monday Web Performance Index Top 100
The end of shopping for 2016 is coming to a close and boy has this year been a big one. According to Fortune.com “U.S. online sales gained momentum on Cyber Monday and are set to surpass initial expectations by hitting a record $3.39 billion as consumers snapped up deals on the busiest day of the … Read more
Why Load Testing Video Games Is Important
In the business world, a strong first impression can make the difference between closing a deal and walking away empty-handed. This also applies to video game launches. Unlike many other forms of media entertainment, a product of excellent design can fail due to the poor implementation of infrastructure or delivery. A company’s best defenses against … Read more
Third-Party Impacts on Load Testing
You have a pretty good handle on how your application works. You’ve talked the design through with your development team and maybe even sat in on some standalone tests or watched a demo performed under lab conditions. Everything looked good until it came time to test your application with all of the third party calls … Read more
The 5 Most Common PC Bottlenecks
Performance bottlenecks can lead an otherwise functional computer or server to slow down to a crawl. The term “bottleneck” refers to both an overloaded network and the state of a computing device in which one component is unable to keep pace with the rest of the system, thus slowing overall performance. Addressing bottleneck issues usually … Read more
8 Factors to Consider Before Choosing a Performance Tool
Selecting the ideal testing tool is an important step in the performance testing process that begins long before your business starts collecting data. There are many factors to consider in matching a testing tool to your web platforms–so many, in fact, that it can feel like navigating in the dark. Here are 8 of the … Read more
What is Performance Testing
The rapid advancement of the internet has brought about remarkable changes in the way we access and share information. With ever-increasing user numbers, faster speeds, and massive data transfers, it’s crucial to ensure your website’s applications can handle the load and cater to your users’ needs. Performance testing plays a vital role in this process, … Read more
Digital Experience: Monitoring You Need With Synthetic
By Sven Hammar, CPO of Apica Digital experience monitoring isn’t new, and there are many ways for enterprise companies to slice that pie depending on IT and business needs. The one unifying challenge, in all cases, is finding the right combination of technologies that will not only meet customers’ expectations, but also help transform the … Read more
How Does the Performance Testing Process Work?
Performance testing is an invaluable tool for businesses to ensure their websites and applications are functioning quickly enough to maximize user engagement. According to an Amazon.com study, a 100ms delay in page load time can result in a 1 percent loss in sales. Unlike other tests, the goal of performance testing isn’t to find bugs, … Read more
