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Heap Memory In Java Applications Performance Testing

DZone

JUNE 17, 2020

Java memory management is a significant challenge for every performance engineer and Java developer, and a skill that needs to be acquired to have Java applications properly tuned. It is the process of allocating new objects and removing unused objects (Garbage Collections) properly.

Java

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The Future of Performance Testing

Alex Podelko

AUGUST 18, 2019

While there are still quite a lot of cases where it is still applicable, it needs to evolve into more sophisticated processes tightly integrated with development and other parts of performance engineering. That dictates changes needed in performance testing (and, eventually, performance testing tools).

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Mobile App Performance Testing Checklist

DZone

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

That's why mobile app testing is so important — because it allows us to predict failures and avoid losses. What Is Mobile App Performance Testing? Mobile app testing is a process of testing that is conducting in a simulated test environment to ensure its functionality, convenience, usability, and quality requirements.

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JMeter + Pepper-Box Plugin for Kafka Performance Testing to Choose or Not to Choose?

DZone

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

How to start Kafka performance testing with JMeter + Pepper-Box plugin ? Is it possible to write samplers for JMeter on your own to provide Kafka performance testing? Apache Kafka is a distributed data store optimized for ingesting and processing streaming data in real-time. Agenda for This Article. Pros and cons.

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The Three Types of Performance Testing

CSS Wizardry

OCTOBER 27, 2018

A lot of companies—even if they are aware that performance is key to their business—are often unsure of how, when, or where performance testing sits within their development lifecycle. To make things worse, they’re also usually unsure whose responsibility performance measuring and monitoring is.

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Modes and Modality in Performance Testing

DZone

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

When reporting summary statistics for performance test results, there's a common assumption that the data follows a central tendency. This article explores why it's crucial to check for modality of performance test results, how to detect multimodal distributions, and how to handle them. But is this always true?

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MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

The Netflix TechBlog

MARCH 6, 2019

—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform By Barak Alon (on behalf of Netflix’s Media Cloud Engineering team) MezzFS (short for “Mezzanine File System”) is a tool we’ve developed at Netflix that mounts cloud objects as local files via FUSE. Encoding is not a one-time process?—?large We have one file?—?the

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Media Storage Processing Cache

In-house Tool for Performance Testing

DZone

DECEMBER 14, 2020

There are many tools available in this space for testing such as Junit, Jmeter, manual, automation, and many performance testing tools. We analyze a tool to make the process easier and more cost effective. Some of these tools are third-party tools and have a cost-heavy license for the company to manage. About the Tool.

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Common Mistakes In Performance Testing

DZone

JULY 30, 2019

Performance Test Execution and Monitoring. In this article, we are highlighting a few points on what can be avoided for better performance when we test and monitor a load test. In this phase, virtual user scripts are run based on the number of concurrent users and workload specified in the non-functional test plan.

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How To Test for Your Software’s Scalability

DZone

AUGUST 8, 2021

Software scalability tests are imperative for any company operating in the digital market. Scalability testing and performance testing are ways to assess software capabilities. Performance testing focuses on response times and software quality.

Scalability

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Salesforce Performance Testing: A Comprehensive Guide

DZone

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

One of the most important aspects of optimizing Salesforce is performance testing. Performance testing is the process of testing a software application under load to identify any performance bottlenecks or issues.

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The Biggest Performance Testing Obstacles

DZone

AUGUST 13, 2019

Performance testing is a crucial part of the development process, but it is also one of the most overlooked steps in a development cycle. Not many developers are interested in doing rigorous testing on their codes to see how they perform under heavy load.

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How Dynatrace empowers performance engineering teams to test at scale

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). How can organizations address this process bottleneck and run more tests in less time?

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How to Establish a Successful Testing Process for Your Product

DZone

JULY 8, 2020

Now you need to organize a testing process the right way. As a client, you may think that the testing provider defines everything about your testing project. Testing is a precise process and each stage of it is extremely important as it can affect the results. This is only a part of the solution.

Processing

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Reinventing Performance Testing: Agile

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 13, 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. While it was always recommended to start performance testing earlier, it was usually rather few activities you can do before the system is ready.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: Continuous Integration

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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Three Killer Anti-Patterns in Continuous Performance Testing

DZone

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Many developers have decided that building sustainable automated and continuous processes across the entire lifecycle, including performance engineering and testing, is a modern imperative. This article will highlight some important things to keep in mind when executing continuous performance testing.

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Unveiling the Secret: Achieving 50K Concurrent User Load Using JMeter With 2.5g RAM Only

DZone

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Apache JMeter is an open-source, Java-based tool used for load and performance testing of various services, particularly web applications. JMeter can simulate heavy loads on a server to analyze performance under different conditions. It supports multiple protocols like HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Architectures

Alex Podelko

OCTOBER 20, 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. I decided to publish a few parts here to see if anything triggers a discussion. – Cloud. – Agile. – Continuous Integration.

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Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 3, Testing stage

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In the last blog post of this series, we delved into how Dynatrace, functioning as a deploy-stage orchestrator, solves the challenges confronted by Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) during the early of automating CI/CD processes. This slow feedback and time spent rerunning tests can hinder the overall software deployment process.

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Recording on JMeter

DZone

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

To get started with application performance testing, the first step in JMeter is recording your business transactions. Recording the business flow helps to expedite the process of creating test plans. This series helps you to learn Apache JMeter in a much simpler way with the relevant examples and exercises.

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Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

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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Analyze Mule4 API Performance — Using JMeter and Google Apps Script

DZone

OCTOBER 29, 2020

For a project member, when we heard about API performance tests. Do we always have some questions like what should our standard for API performance? How we can define an automation process for API performance tests? What are the tools we can use?

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What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Dynatrace

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Open vulnerability on process group: The total number of currently high-profile vulnerabilities related to a process group. Vulnerability score: The highest vulnerability risk score for a process group. Quality gates after load/performance testing Teams can use quality gates to evaluate performance metrics.

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Modernize your performance testing: 6 tips for better apps

TechBeacon Testing

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The world of application development keeps evolving at breakneck speed with respect to processes, delivery, and methodologies.

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Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

Dynatrace

MARCH 3, 2020

PayPal, a popular online payment systems organization, implemented a full performance as a self-service model for developers to get their code performance tests. Read more details about PayPal in this blog who is an early practitioner for performance as a self-service. #2 2 New roles and responsibilities at Panera Bread

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What Is End-to-End Testing?

DZone

MARCH 17, 2022

End-to-end testing, or E2E testing, is a type of performance test go-through during the cycle of mobile app development. All of the functionalities of the product are tested from one end to another to ensure that the entire application flow functions without setbacks.

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14 Product Success Metrics to Measure Software Development Performance

DZone

JULY 21, 2022

This software makes the different tasks easier and allows for increased efficiency and performance. Development of any software is a tedious and long process, and it undergoes a series of quality and performance tests before its release and use.

Software

Software Software Development Metrics

Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

Dynatrace

AUGUST 8, 2024

It’s also critical to have a strategy in place to address these outages, including both documented remediation processes and an observability platform to help you proactively identify and resolve issues to minimize customer and business impact. Incorrectly applied configuration changes lead to system failures and downtime.

Software

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Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

Dynatrace

DECEMBER 10, 2020

During the recent pandemic, organizations that lack processes and systems to scale and adapt to remote workforces and increased online shopping are feeling the pressure even more. Rethinking the process means digital transformation.

Strategy

Strategy Performance Logistics Monitoring

How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

Dynatrace

MAY 17, 2023

To ensure high standards, it’s essential that your organization establish automated validations in an early phase of the software development process—ideally when code is written. Validation tasks are then extended left to cover performance testing and release validation in a pre-production environment.

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Scaling Quality Engineering: Embracing End-to-End Testing for Agile Success in SAFe

DZone

JUNE 20, 2023

This article aims to explore the significance of end-to-end testing within the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and its role in ensuring high-quality software delivery. The article discusses various types of end-to-end testing, including functional automation, early performance testing, user acceptance testing, and web accessibility testing.

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What is DORA? The application security and reliability implications of the Digital Operational Resilience Act

Dynatrace

AUGUST 26, 2024

DORA seeks to strengthen the cybersecurity resilience of the EU’s banking and financial institutions by requiring them to possess the requisite processes, systems, and controls to prevent, manage, and recover from cybersecurity incidents. Who needs to be DORA compliant?

Government

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Dynatrace to acquire Rookout to deliver code debugging in production environments

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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Selenium Grid 4 Tutorial For Distributed Testing

DZone

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Selenium Grid has been an integral part of automation testing, as it lets you perform test case execution on different combinations of browsers, operating systems (or platforms), and machines. It also enables you to perform parallel execution to expedite the cross-browser testing process.

Testing

Testing Operating System Performance Testing Architecture

Shift left vs shift-right: A DevOps mystery solved

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

Shift-left is the practice of moving testing, quality, and performance evaluation early in the software development process, thus the process of shifting to the “left” side of the DevOps lifecycle. To automate part of the process, teams can use application programming interface calls.

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DevOps Testing Monitoring Speed

Shift left vs shift-right: A DevOps mystery solved

Dynatrace

JANUARY 31, 2022

Shift-left is the practice of moving testing, quality, and performance evaluation early in the software development process, thus the process of shifting to the “left” side of the DevOps lifecycle. To automate part of the process, teams can use application programming interface calls.

DevOps

DevOps Testing Monitoring Speed

PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 1 – Pros & Cons

Scalegrid

OCTOBER 17, 2019

In that environment, the first PostgreSQL developers decided forking a process for each connection to the database is the safest choice. It is difficult to fault their argument – as it’s absolutely true that: Each client having its own process prevents a poorly behaving client from crashing the entire database.

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Architecture Database Latency Servers

A three-step implementation guide to answer-driven SLO-based release validation

Dynatrace

JULY 16, 2021

This week my colleague Michael Winkler announced the general availability of Cloud Automation quality gates , a new capability that aims to provide answer-driven release validation as part of your delivery process. GitOps: integrate Cloud Automation configuration into your development processes through the upstream git capability.

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DevOps Open Source Cloud Azure

What is synthetic testing?

Dynatrace

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Here’s a look at why this testing matters, how it works, and what companies need to get the most from this approach. What is synthetic testing? Synthetic testing is an IT process that uses software to discover and diagnose performance issues with user journeys by simulating real-user activity.

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Fixing Performance Regressions Before they Happen

The Netflix TechBlog

JANUARY 24, 2022

At Netflix the term “performance” usually encompasses both performance metrics (in the strict meaning) and memory metrics, and that’s how we’re using the term here. Why do we run Performance Tests on commits? What are the Performance Tests? Ideally we catch regressions before they even reach the main branch.

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Comparing PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance & Pricing – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

Scalegrid

JUNE 4, 2020

PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance Test. In order to see which DBaaS provides the best PostgreSQL hosting performance on DigitalOcean, we are comparing equivalent plan sizes between ScaleGrid PostgreSQL on DigitalOcean and DigitalOcean Managed Databases: ScaleGrid PostgreSQL. Compare Pricing. Throughput. Benchmark Tool.

Database

Database Latency Benchmarking Performance

When is the Best Time to Start Performance Testing?

Abstracta

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Waterfall vs Agile Performance Testing When taking into account the performance of existing systems or ones built from scratch, teams have to determine at what point in the development process they are going to benefit most from running performance tests. I’ve spoken about this topic.

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Simplify and standardize Dynatrace integration to Jenkins software delivery pipelines with shared libraries

Dynatrace

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Information events are viewable on the host, process, and services within Dynatrace. Below is an example of a deployment event that was created from that API call with all the detail for the source, version, and pipeline job that performed the deployment. Performance test is run.

Software

Software Software DevOps Open Source

Heap Memory In Java Applications Performance Testing

The Future of Performance Testing

Trending Sources

Mobile App Performance Testing Checklist

JMeter + Pepper-Box Plugin for Kafka Performance Testing to Choose or Not to Choose?

The Three Types of Performance Testing

Modes and Modality in Performance Testing

MezzFS?—?Mounting object storage in Netflix’s media processing platform

In-house Tool for Performance Testing

Common Mistakes In Performance Testing

How To Test for Your Software’s Scalability

Salesforce Performance Testing: A Comprehensive Guide

The Biggest Performance Testing Obstacles

How Dynatrace empowers performance engineering teams to test at scale

How to Establish a Successful Testing Process for Your Product

Reinventing Performance Testing: Agile

Reinventing Performance Testing: Continuous Integration

Three Killer Anti-Patterns in Continuous Performance Testing

Unveiling the Secret: Achieving 50K Concurrent User Load Using JMeter With 2.5g RAM Only

Reinventing Performance Testing: New Architectures

Automate CI/CD pipelines with Dynatrace: Part 3, Testing stage

Recording on JMeter

Reinventing Performance Testing: New Technologies

Analyze Mule4 API Performance — Using JMeter and Google Apps Script

What are quality gates? How to use quality gates to deliver better software at speed and scale

Modernize your performance testing: 6 tips for better apps

Up your quality and agility factor – using automation to build “performance-as-a-self-service”

What Is End-to-End Testing?

14 Product Success Metrics to Measure Software Development Performance

Six causes of major software outages–And how to avoid them

Panel Recap: How is your performance and reliability strategy aligned with your customer experience?

How Dynatrace boosts production resilience with Site Reliability Guardian

Scaling Quality Engineering: Embracing End-to-End Testing for Agile Success in SAFe

What is DORA? The application security and reliability implications of the Digital Operational Resilience Act

Dynatrace to acquire Rookout to deliver code debugging in production environments

Selenium Grid 4 Tutorial For Distributed Testing

Shift left vs shift-right: A DevOps mystery solved

Shift left vs shift-right: A DevOps mystery solved

PostgreSQL Connection Pooling: Part 1 – Pros & Cons

A three-step implementation guide to answer-driven SLO-based release validation

What is synthetic testing?

Fixing Performance Regressions Before they Happen

Comparing PostgreSQL DigitalOcean Performance & Pricing – ScaleGrid vs. DigitalOcean Managed Databases

When is the Best Time to Start Performance Testing?

Simplify and standardize Dynatrace integration to Jenkins software delivery pipelines with shared libraries

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