Alex Podelko

APRIL 18, 2021

MongoDB has the most advanced continuous performance testing I know about. MongoDB shared a lot of information on how we do performance testing and even open sourced some parts of it. Continuous performance testing is built on the top of Evergreen. If I missed something interesting, please let me know.]

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DZone

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

So, you want to learn about performance testing and progress towards performance engineering or DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering. Jumping directly into performance testing might be overwhelming. I was directed to learn the tool, then the performance concepts. There is no end to learning stuff.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 1, 2019

More specifically, I’ll demonstrate how in just a few steps, you can add Dynatrace information events to your Azure DevOps release pipelines for things like deployments, performance tests, or configuration changes. Microsoft DevOps Azure is one of the best CI/CD systems and a strategic technical Dynatrace partner.

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Alex Podelko

JUNE 12, 2019

If we talk about commercial vendors targeting the corporate market, I guess only Neotys remains independent and active (I mean contributing into the performance testing ecosystem – innovation, publishing content, participating in events, etc). Microfocus acquired both LoadRunner from HP and Silk Performer (as a part of Borland).

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Alex Podelko

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

From load testing to DevOps. It appears that Apache JMeter became the most popular load testing tool. In 2014, I was preparing a presentation about load testing tools and criteria for their selection. A stereotypical, last-moment performance check is not enough anymore.

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Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 18, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. In agile development / DevOps environments it should be interwoven with the whole development process. – Cloud. – Agile.

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Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

This innovative model supports continuous delivery in a consistent and reliable way and stays true to the DevOps goal of code moving across the pipeline with more automation and less, or minimal, human intervention. . Read more details about PayPal in this blog who is an early practitioner for performance as a self-service. #2

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Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

The Dynatrace Software Intelligence Platform already comes with release analysis, version awareness , and Service Level Objective (SLO) support as part of the Dynatrace Cloud Automation solution , helping DevOps and SRE teams automate the delivery and operational decisions. Performance as a Self-Service (JMeter, Neotys, Locust,).

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Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment. These examples can help you define your starting point for establishing DevOps and SRE best practices in your organization.

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DZone

JUNE 20, 2019

Growing up in performance engineering in the last decade, it was almost impossible to think of simulating load using a real browser because a performance engineer would need a lot of machines to simulate load using a real browser.

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Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

This approach supports innovation, ambitious SLOs, DevOps scalability, and competitiveness. Quality gates after load/performance testing Teams can use quality gates to evaluate performance metrics. Several tools can be used to collect metrics in load/performance testing. Adjustments must be made accordingly.

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Speed Software Software Latency 264

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 28, 2016

I am looking forward to share my thoughts on ‘Reinventing Performance Testing’ at the imPACt performance and capacity conference by CMG held on November 7-10, 2016 in La Jolla, CA. Quite often the whole area of load testing is reduced to pre-production testing using protocol-level recording/playback. – Cloud.

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Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Dynatrace information events provide context about what’s happening to an application by providing additional details for Dynatrace for deployments, configuration changes, or testing activity. This information speeds up triage by adding context to what is happening with the application by DevOps Teams. Performance test is run.

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Dynatrace

APRIL 30, 2021

As organizations develop more applications and microservices, they are discovering they also need to run more performance tests in the same amount of time or less to meet service-level objectives (SLOs) that fulfill service-level agreements (SLAs). Current challenges with performance testing. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

JULY 9, 2020

Gone are the days for Christian manually looking at dashboards and metrics after a new build got deployed into a testing or acceptance environment: Integrating Keptn into your existing DevOps tools such as GitLab is just a matter of an API call.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Organizations we see changing are increasing investment in their service offerings, adopting Scaled Agile Frameworks (SAFe) to deliver incremental value and increase productivity, and putting DevOps principles and culture at their cornerstone. Rethinking the process means digital transformation.

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Dynatrace

AUGUST 29, 2019

It feels like just yesterday DevOps was all the rage, and everything had to be “Cloud” in order to be modern. These days, most organizations have embraced the benefits of DevOps and are running one or more of their applications on somebody else’s computer. Dynatrace news.

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Dynatrace

MAY 27, 2021

In my previous article about continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) , I defined CI/CD and explained how these practices work together to help DevOps teams deliver quality software faster. Dynatrace news. To shorten MTTR, developers need data to troubleshoot problems. Defect resolution time.

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Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Testing includes integration tests, which assess whether the code functions as intended when interacting with other services and application functionalities. It can also include performance testing to determine if the application can effectively handle the demands of the production environment.

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Dynatrace

JANUARY 5, 2022

This guest blog is authored by Raphael Pionke , DevOps Engineer at T-Systems MMS. Credits on content go to him and the work he has been doing around performance & resiliency testing automation. The white box load testing project setup. Dynatrace news. I, Andreas Grabner, helped to bring the blog to life!

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DZone

JANUARY 24, 2020

Application performance engineering is an essential practice for any DevOps team, allowing developers across departments to stay agile and efficient. You may also like: A Short History of Performance Engineering.

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Alex Podelko

JULY 13, 2018

I believe that the main trend for the next several years will be incorporating performance engineering into the modern development approaches centered around quick delivery of changes (whatever specific term would be – iterative, agile, continuous, DevOps, etc). That, of course, should involve more automation to performance checks.

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Alex Podelko

AUGUST 24, 2017

The article doesn’t concentrate on automated regression testing (which would be discussed here later) and perhaps quite a lot of other topics – but it is not supposed to be a comprehensive textbook on the topic. We, of course, have a lot of consultants who specialize on setting agile / DevOps / Continuous Integration / etc.

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Dynatrace

JUNE 18, 2019

Read more about monspec in our AWS DevOps Tutorial here. A more robust pipeline example containing usage of the Dynatrace resource as well as performance tests can be found here. This will determine which entities need to receive the event. Integrating the Dynatrace resource into a pipeline is simple.

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TechBeacon Testing

MARCH 26, 2019

If your company has adopted DevOps, you'll want to do performance testing as a part of your continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) release train.

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DZone

MAY 12, 2019

When I ask them why don't you write unit tests, they come up with many excuses like they don't have time for writing unit tests, there is always deadline pressure, and some of the honest guys will tell you that they tried writing but give-up after 10-15 minutes due to difficulty in testing their code.

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Java Testing DevOps Code 189

Testsigma

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

George Ukkuru is a seasoned technocrat and AVP of quality engineering, DevOps, and SRE @Marlabs Inc. Over the course of two decades, he has helped Fortune 500 companies implement Agile testing practices. He has also authored a number of books on quality engineering and test automation. This changes how teams test for quality.

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Engineering Social Media DevOps Azure 104

Dynatrace

JULY 31, 2023

Observability and security continue to converge “Development teams are increasingly expected to incorporate observability and security capabilities into their solutions (shift-left) as well as perform testing, quality, and performance evaluation in production environments ( shift right ),” said Bernd Greifeneder, CTO at Dynatrace. “We

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Code Artificial Intelligence Government Performance Testing 246

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

Conducting performance testing and having contingency plans for peak times can help ensure systems remain operational during spikes in usage. An online streaming service experiences downtime during the premiere of a highly anticipated show, as too many users try to access it simultaneously.

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Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Robert allowed me to take a couple of screenshots from their Dynatrace environment and with that, in this blog I try to explain how Dynatrace gives them MaaSS for Developers, Operators, DevOps as well as Business. 2: Automate Quality aka “Performance as a Self-Service”. MaaSS for Business: Data per SaaS-Tenant.

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Abstracta

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Performance testing tools are becoming more and more critical for accurately predicting system capacity and building quality software. Keep reading and find out our TOP 10 best Performance Testing Tools, including open-source platforms and proprietary testing tools.

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Alex Podelko

DECEMBER 19, 2019

System Performance Estimation, Evaluation, and Decision (SPEED) by Kingsum Chow, Yingying Wen, Alibaba. – Performance engineering as it done at Alibaba – which emerging as a major cloud provider. How is DevOps changing the Modern Software Development Landscape? , a Panel Discussion.

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Apica

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Understanding the market and this massive growth in applications, having a modern performance testing platform will ensure you can test streaming, API-based, and XML-based applications including set-top boxes and game stations among other application types in DevOps friendly way.

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DZone

JUNE 3, 2020

What It’s Like to Build a Company Around Developer-Driven Performance Testing. In this episode of the Quality Sense podcast , Abstracta COO, Federico Toledo, interviews Paul-Henri Pillet, a Frenchman and the CEO of one of our favorite open-source load testing tools, Gatling , with 5,000,000 downloads in +100 countries to date.

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Apica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

With this shift in applications everywhere enterprises need to do their due diligence in performance testing complex modern applications at scale, often and at a lower cost to stay competitive. With this growth and added complexity, how are your legacy performance testing solutions keeping up?

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Dynatrace

JUNE 11, 2019

Ideally, QA teams use production data for better test definitions (based on real use cases) and better workload modeling for load testing (based on real-world load behavior). Organizations that don’t look at production data may test the wrong things and simulate the wrong performance tests.

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Innovation Monitoring Metrics Mobile 245

Dynatrace

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

performance test) when the application reaches a stable throughput without violating response time constraints. Akamas also enables you to automate the analysis of the experiment metrics in powerful ways. For example, our smart windowing feature can automatically identify the time window during the experiment (e.g.

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