Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
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
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
