Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
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
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
