Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
A Better Continuous Integration (CI) Experience: 5 Tips to Avoid Integration Hell
Inevitably, developers are forced to delay pushing fixes and features because other parts of the code aren’t ready. “Integration Hell” earned its name because clients are missing out on the latest version of the application–and because it negatively impacts team morale. Continuous Integration is a software development practice involving “integrating” updates multiple times a day. … Read more
Enhanced Integration with AppDynamics and New Relic
LoadTest Now Includes Enhanced Integration with AppDynamics and New Relic While at Velocity 2016 this week, we are excited to announce that our LoadTest Portal now has enhanced integration with AppDynamics and New Relic delivering greater actionable insights. Ensuring website and application updates and enhancements function as expected can be challenging. Despite the best deployments, web properties … Read more
The Benefits of Distributed Load Test Centers
The benefits of distributed load test centers can be seen as an invaluable tool for e-businesses that serve local, regional, national, and global audiences. The testing network helps ensure application and website users have a smooth browsing and purchasing experience. It’s a well-established principle that load times have a direct correlation with conversion rates: faster … Read more
The Continuous Delivery Pipeline: Top 9 Bottlenecks
Continuous Delivery is an appealing approach, allowing rapid application updates, so end users get features and fixes as soon as they’re ready. Developers, for their part, can fix and push updates to address bug reports almost as quickly as they come in. However, the process is not foolproof. A recent Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) survey … Read more
Configuring & Adjusting Google Protocol Buffer Load Tests
Web and cloud applications need more than just good programming to run: The server infrastructure needs to have enough resources to handle the requests of every concurrent user. Inadequate infrastructure can lead to sluggish performance–or even total failure, if too many users push data at the same time. Load testing is a process that involves … Read more
Load Testing with Google Protocol Buffer
The ZebraTester program is filled with useful load test management tools for Google Protocol Buffer, or protobuf, messages. The mechanism not only helps streamline the load testing process, but also provides insight into the results that can be used to help improve the platform, troubleshoot errors, and identify inefficiencies. About Protocol Buffers Protobuf is a method … Read more
Benefits of Agile Performance Testing
It’s easy for a business to fall into the trap of focusing so intensely on content and capabilities for their applications that they neglect one of the areas that’s most important to the audience: performance. Apica and Gigaom’s white paper “Performance Testing: Balancing Agility and Quality” stresses how businesses need to make application performance a … Read more
Succeeding in the “API Economy”
The API Economy not only offers incredible opportunities to explore new ways to interact with devices and services, but also allows innovators to put a new spin on solving old problems. According to IBM, the API Economy is “the commercial exchange of business functions, capabilities, or competencies as services using web application programming interfaces.” The Internet … Read more
How Have Websites Changed in the Last 5 Years?
Web pages built to capitalize on the technology and traffic trends from five years ago are structurally and fundamentally unequipped to operate on the modern web. The exploding mobile adoption rate, particularly of smartphones, has dramatically changed how web pages are built and operate. The introduction and proliferation of tablet devices and Wi-Fi networks have also played … Read more
4 Ways Online Retailers Can Shine This Holiday Season
Online retailers depend heavily on the holiday season for a healthy bottom line. It’s the busiest time of the year in many retail industries, and there’s a substantial uptick in customers looking to spend money. The objective is to seize that spike in potential customers while it’s there. The National Retail Federation notes that online … Read more
SOAP or REST: Security, Dependability, and Advantages
Choosing between SOAP and REST can be difficult without knowing the advantages and disadvantages of each API standard. The differences between REST and SOAP are outlined in this article to help you make the best decision. Overview of APIs Application Programming Interfaces are a vital part of what makes business communication operate efficiently and securely … Read more
5 Ways to Identify and Eliminate Failure Points
App failure points–places in an application’s infrastructure, network, or API where errors typically occur–can be the downfall of good code. Whether your team is plagued by common failure points or you’re working out complicated bugs, these points can be frustrating, time-consuming, and even expensive if extensive downtime is incurred. Here are five ways to identify … Read more
