Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
Safe & Sound: How Performance Testing Promotes Security
Around the world, more and more companies and government organizations are reporting massive data breaches. These breaches don’t just cost them a significant amount of money–they can also jeopardize the hard-earned trust of their customers and employees. With this in mind, businesses of all sizes are tuned into the importance of data security. When traditional … Read more
Launch Mobile Games Fast & Easily with Agile Development
Achieving Speed and Quality with Mobile Game Development When it comes to mobile game development, speed is everything. From the business owner to the consumer, everyone wants developers to build and deploy their apps overnight–without the errors common to time-sensitive projects. But is it possible to meet the need for speed without losing your audience … Read more
The E-Commerce Downtime Guide: What to Do if Things Go Wrong
With Mother’s Day just a few days away, many online retailers are facing a huge spike in traffic and demand. The best of these retailers prep for holidays like Mother’s Day, Valentine’s Day, and Black Friday many months in advance, testing and optimizing web performance to be sure their site can handle each seasonal load. … Read more
5 Trends for Testing in the Era of Big Data Applications
In the last decade, data has virtually exploded (pardon the pun), sending shock waves through the entire tech industry. Big Data applications have arrived at the scene on a kind of rescue mission–a way to capture, store, search, and analyze the data blowup many e-businesses are experiencing. According to Gartner, Big Data’s defining characteristics are Volume, Velocity, and … Read more
Why SLA Performance and Service Level Monitoring Matter
The 5 Most Common PC Bottlenecks Let’s Talk What is an SLA? SLAs (service-level agreements) are the most critical component of any vendor contract. An SLA describes all the expectations and responsibilities, including the scope and quality of the work, that must be met by the vendor. It also clearly defines the penalties–or any acceptable … Read more
Performance Testing & Load Testing Cloud-Based Applications
Cloud Applications Require Cloud-Based Performance Testing Cloud computing provides “computing” as a utility, transforming IT services. Both the software and hardware landscape have changed in a big way — and will continue to change — based on the requirements of Cloud infrastructure and its increasing popularity. Cloud computing can offer more agility for both software … Read more
A Better Web Performance Solution with New Integrations
Web Performance and Application Performance Monitoring: Two Solutions, One Common Goal In the simplest terms, Web Performance Monitoring (WPM) is an external process for monitoring web applications, while Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is an internal one. The two services can be used independently to monitor the performance of external or internal application components, but integrating … Read more
Monitor Website Uptime and Daily Performance with a Synthetic Monitoring Service
If You’re Not Monitoring, You Probably Should Be On most well-built websites — yours, hopefully, included — traffic will increase over time. It would logically follow, then, that monitoring your website’s performance is paramount — and only grows in importance the longer you’re in business. When you factor in the matter of customer experience, which … Read more
Video Streaming Testing Tools – Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics
In an era characterized by the explosion of data in countless forms, real-time traffic on the internet is growing rapidly. Application streaming is one of the primary areas in which real-time data must be captured and delivered instantaneously. Streaming data is not only used in entertainment, but also essential for business operations of many kinds. … Read more
The Process and Importance of CDN Testing & Monitoring
The Content Delivery Network (CDN) is a concept involving a group of servers used at multiple locations across the globe, each hosting the same content for delivery. The content from the nearest server (CDN node) is delivered to the end user. This system supports fast, secure, and reliable delivery of the content and reduces the … Read more
Synthetic Monitoring vs. Real User Monitoring (RUM) – How Should You Monitor?
If you’re feeling confused about Synthetic Monitoring, Real User Monitoring (known as RUM), and the whole performance monitoring space in general, don’t fret! You’re not alone. Performance monitoring of web applications is a challenging but critical task. Monitoring, on the whole, is an ongoing process and judged from the end-user’s perspective. Its purpose is ultimately … Read more
How to Optimize Your Web Performance for Google’s Penguin 3.0
Ever since it launched in 2012, Google’s Penguin algorithm has aimed to penalize websites in their search index that use black-hat SEO techniques involving link schemes — a practice that violates Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. The most recent Penguin update, 2.1, was released on October 4th, 2013 and impacted around 1% of sites listed on Google. Many sites in … Read more
