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Interviewing and Hiring Software Performance Test Professionals - Book Review

DZone

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. On this line, James Pulley's book is different, it is completely a non-technical book in the performance testing/engineering genre.

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Understanding the Power of Coefficient of Variation in Software Performance Testing

DZone

Not another figure to look at when analyzing performance test results! Most performance tools already report a bunch of them (e.g., Actually, the Coefficient of Variation (CoV) stands out as a valuable metric to prove that your application will perform reliably under various conditions. average, min, max, percentiles.),

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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. 34 (2020), Performance Testing with David Daly , is another good introduction.

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Software Performance Testing Using JMeter and Kovair Omnibus

Kovair

Before shipping a software product for customer delivery, it is very essential to check both the functional and the non-functional aspects of the application. The post Software Performance Testing Using JMeter and Kovair Omnibus appeared first on Kovair Blog.

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MongoDB Performance Resources

Alex Podelko

As I started to work for MongoDB, I started to get questions about MongoDB performance. We do have a lot of great resources that can help with MongoDB performance. First of all, it is MongoDB and Atlas documentation: Performance , Monitoring , and Query Optimization. Tips and Tricks for Query Performance: Let Us.explain() Them.

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Extending Vector with eBPF to inspect host and container performance

The Netflix TechBlog

by Jason Koch , with Martin Spier , Brendan Gregg , Ed Hunter Improving the tools available to our engineers to help them diagnose, triage, and work through software performance challenges in the cloud is a key goal for the cloud performance engineering team at Netflix. Refresh the build pipeline away from gulp to webpack.

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Evolving From Performance Testing to Modern Engineering

DZone

Performance testing stands as one of the most crucial aspects of ensuring seamless functioning of applications. As organizations strive for innovation and rapid releases, the significance of evaluating software performance throughout its lifecycle becomes increasingly paramount.