Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
Apica & op5 Partner to Help Monitor Internal IT Performance
PALO ALTO, Calif.–March. 19, 2013—Apica, a leading performance testing and monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, has partnered with open source management company, op5 to enhance the monitoring and testing of internal IT network systems. Through this partnership, enterprise developers, testers, and application owners will be able to test both the internal and external performance of their … Read more
Manchester United wins Premier League – on the web
Manchester United has the fastest responding web site in the Premier League, according to extensive tests performed by Apica, an IT company specialised in web performance and testing. Everton has the slowest web site. Surprisingly, only nine of the 20 EPL clubs have web sited that load fully within an acceptable three-second time period. The … Read more
Apica supports your Mobile Application Management
In 2013, mobile devices will pass PCs to be the most common Web access tools. By 2015 media tablet shipments will reach around 50 percent of laptop shipments and over 80 percent of the handsets sold in mature markets will be smartphones. These trends were highlighted by Gartner research in their “Top 10 Strategic Technology … Read more
Online Black Friday Spending: Best & Worst Web Performance
Thanksgiving weekend: the truest test of website preparation and performance an online retailer can expect to encounter. It is the culmination of months of strategizing and testing, of not only determining the most jaw-dropping deals, but of ensuring one’s web infrastructure is strong enough to withstand the barrage of shoppers lined up behind their monitors, … Read more
Online Black Friday Spending: Best & Worst Web Performance
Thanksgiving weekend: the truest test of website preparation and performance an online retailer can expect to encounter. It is the culmination of months of strategizing and testing, of not only determining the most jaw-dropping deals, but of ensuring one’s web infrastructure is strong enough to withstand the barrage of shoppers lined up behind their monitors, … Read more
Online Black Friday Spending: Best & Worst Web Performance
Thanksgiving weekend: the truest test of website preparation and performance an online retailer can expect to encounter. It is the culmination of months of strategizing and testing, of not only determining the most jaw-dropping deals, but of ensuring one’s web infrastructure is strong enough to withstand the barrage of shoppers lined up behind their monitors, … Read more
5 Reasons Why Your Web Performance May be Slow
The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that this year’s holiday sales will increase 4.1 percent to $586.1 billion. But here’s a wrinkle in the data that nobody really records: The companies that are making money are those that have fast, responsive websites. Companies with slow websites won’t be cashing in this season. In fact, a Kissmetrics … Read more
Lessons learned from the AWS Outage
On Monday, Amazon Web Services — the leading provider of cloud services — suffered an outage, and as a result, a long list of well-known and popular websites went dark. According to Amazon’s Service Health Dashboard, the outage started out as degraded performance of a small number of Elastic Bloc Store (EBS) storage units in the US-EAST-1 Region, then … Read more
2013 web app predictions from Akamai Edge
Last week a few of my colleagues and I flew out to Las Vegas to attend Akamai Edge 2012, Akamai’s annual customer conference. The event is a great opportunity to see the latest advancements in Akamai technology as well as network with Akamai partners, customers, and other Internet visionaries and find out how they are leveraging … Read more
Load testing to detect Advanced Persistent Threats
I’ve written before about how Apica’s capacity planning and load testing tools can help companies prepare for a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, but we’ve begun to see a new class of attacks emerge, called Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), whose aim is much more sinister than a slow response time or “page not found” error. What is an Advanced … Read more
Web performance of music streaming sites
For our latest web performance benchmark we decided to take a look at some popular music streaming sites. There are obviously dozens of websites and applications that allow you to listen to your favorite tunes at anytime and from anywhere so we decided to hone in specifically on those sites that are browser-based. This qualification … Read more
Test scalability now to ensure a successful holiday season
With just under four months to go until the holiday season, it’s time for IT development departments to get ahead and ensure a successful and scalable season come November and December. Why prepare now? More than likely, it’s quiet in the office. So while everyone else is on the beach, take a fresh look at … Read more
