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Interviewing and Hiring Software Performance Test Professionals - Book Review

DZone

A few weeks ago, I reviewed The Hitchhiking Guide To Load Testing Projects: A Fun, Step-by-Step Walk-Through Guide by Leandro Melendez. It is good to see more books on the performance testing/engineering genre recently. One of my favorite books is The Art of Application Performance Testing series by Ian Molyneaux.

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Removing the Roadblock to Continuous Performance Testing

DZone

Continuous performance testing makes total sense. But users and stakeholders don’t care that delivering good software is hard. A software failure is now a business failure, and any type of problem impacts operational efficiency, customer/employee satisfaction, revenue, and competitive advantage.

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7 Best Performance Testing Tools to Look Out for in 2021

DZone

Performances testing helps establish the scalability, stability, and speed of the software application. Numerous kinds of performance testing imitate several possible user scenarios and know the behavior of the apps. Confirming scalability, dependability, stability, and speed of the app is crucial.

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Performance Testing at MongoDB

Alex Podelko

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

Dynatrace

As recent events have demonstrated, major software outages are an ever-present threat in our increasingly digital world. From business operations to personal communication, the reliance on software and cloud infrastructure is only increasing. Software bugs Software bugs and bad code releases are common culprits behind tech outages.

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

DZone

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? Kafka is an open-source stream ing software platform developed by the Apache Software Foundation, written in Scala and Java. Pros and cons.

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The Three Types of Performance Testing

CSS Wizardry

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.