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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
