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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,
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,
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,
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
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
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
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,
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
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
What’s next for cloud application optimization?
You’ve depended on load testing and web monitoring to optimize cloud applications for years. But what if a technology came along that rivaled everything you thought you knew? Let us tell you what’s next for
Apica Raises $5M in Series C Funding by SEB Venture Capital
PALO ALTO, Calif.–July 2, 2012—Apica, a leading load testing and performance monitoring provider for cloud and mobile applications, has closed a $5 million Series C financing led by SEB Venture Capital. Existing Swedish investors Industrifonden,
Apica & AppDynamics Partner to Enhance Performance Testing
Integrated solution will provide deeper insight on application performance to improve business results. Apica is exhibiting at the O’Reilly Velocity 2012 Conference in booth #312, June 25 – 27, 2012 at the Santa Clara Convention