Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
How to Prepare to Minimize the Effect of DDoS Attacks
Reports of aggressive DDoS attacks, also known as cyberattacks or overload attacks, are recurring topics in the news. These attacks shake up businesses and organizations — and their customers who are impacted in the end. Some people say that you can avoid DDoS attacks. That is not true. But, you can be prepared for them … Read more
6 Reasons Why Organizations are Failing to LoadTest
Load testing is an essential practice for any organization looking to keep its online platforms running as smoothly as possible. Load testing creates virtual users and runs them against an actual website or application to determine how well it performs under various traffic levels. This information can be used to identify efficiency problems within the … Read more
Tools & Steps to Stress Test Rest API
API TESTING SERIES Stress testing REST APIs is essential for your company to get a handle on how well your APIs are performing under demanding traffic situations. Unlike other load tests, a stress test eliminates the need for configuring complex tools. Load tests are still an essential part of understanding how your company’s website and … Read more
Integration Testing Process for Big Applications
Are Mocks/In-Memory Tests a Good Idea? Integration testing examines if the parts of an application can communicate and function together–and if so, how well. There are many approaches to a successful integration test, but the commonly used “mocks/in-memory” testing method may not provide the same quality results that it does when working on the unit … Read more
Google Analytics RealTime Integration
In Apica Synthetic Monitoring we can show you how your site has been performing at any given time. We can show you a plethora of metrics including Response time and DOM complete. With this data you know if your site is performing to your standards or if it is failing. A failing site means that the … Read more
AWS Load Testing Project Questions
This is blog post #4 in a 5 post series Blog post 1: Rising to the Occasion: Using Load Testing to Optimize Cloud Server Scaling Blog post 2: Developing a Server Asset Scaling Strategy Blog post 3: Planning Ahead: Load Testing-Assisted Capacity Planning In addition to establishing component scaling guidelines, the Apica AWS load test … Read more
Planning Ahead: Load Test-Assisted Capacity Planning
This is blog post 3 in a 5 post series Blog post 1: Rising to the Occasion: Using Load Testing to Optimize Cloud Server Scaling Blog post 2: Developing a Server Asset Scaling Strategy Application teams need to establish how much power each specific part of the system requires to expand capacity without wasting resources to address … Read more
Best Practices: Continuous Development, Continuous Integration
Continuous Development, Continuous Integration (CI/CD) is the new paradigm for creating and improving web applications. Ongoing development and use of incremental changes that can be rolled back easily in case of problems have proven to be an effective way of advancing the attractiveness and usability of websites. The only way for this method to work … Read more
How to Test and Monitor HLS Streaming
Widely used and adaptable, HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) is a video streaming protocol that adds value to your website. Find out how to conduct HLS monitoring to guarantee top-quality video streaming on your website. What is HLS? Whether delivering movies, covering your favorite sporting event or blasting out internet radio, one of the big consumers … Read more
New Release: Apica Load Testing Tool ProxySniffer V5.1-C
Apica ProxySniffer V5.1-C is now ready with major updates and new features. The new version has support for multiple IP-addresses, housekeeping for Exec Agents and Job Controller and Automatic Detection of Insufficient Java Memory for Load Test Jobs added and more. Support for “Reverse Proxy” Web Traffic Recording The recording Proxy Server program is normally … Read more
Application Performance as a KPI for e-business
Web application load times can make the difference between your e-business thriving or dying. Speedy load times are so essential to a web application’s success that they should be considered a key performance indicator. Comparing sales data with performance data establishes a direct relationship between the two: A platform that performs faster will lead to higher … Read more
5 Important Alerts to Set Up for Website Monitoring
Website monitoring alerts are an incredibly helpful tool for keeping your business’s site up and running. There’s more to site tracking than just looking at “is it on” and “how many people visited the site”–other metrics like how quickly the site loads are just as important. The following five alerts are the most important ones … Read more
