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Reflections, thoughts and random musings on working in web performance, cloud services and software development consultancy. August 12, 2014. Test for performance early (and with realistic data) in agile. At Intechnica our tag-line is “. 8220; What that means is that we ensure performance is designed into our systems rather than strapped on at the end and that we. Test Early, Test Hard. Insert Time – Cassandra (s). Insert Time – MongoDB (s). And here’s a pretty graph…. May 13, 2014. It is easy to lose si...
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30 | January | 2014 | Zero Degrees Kelvin
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Reflections, thoughts and random musings on working in web performance, cloud services and software development consultancy. Daily Archives: January 30, 2014. January 30, 2014. Lookup, don’t search. One of the most common tasks that a system does is to search through data sets to find records that match certain criteria. Typically, this is done by iterating through the records and constructing a list of records that match the search terms. 1 Conventional for-each construct. What we can see here is that t...
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Test for performance early (and with realistic data) in agile | Zero Degrees Kelvin
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Reflections, thoughts and random musings on working in web performance, cloud services and software development consultancy. August 12, 2014. Test for performance early (and with realistic data) in agile. At Intechnica our tag-line is “. 8220; What that means is that we ensure performance is designed into our systems rather than strapped on at the end and that we. Test Early, Test Hard. Insert Time – Cassandra (s). Insert Time – MongoDB (s). And here’s a pretty graph…. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Address...
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03 | January | 2014 | Zero Degrees Kelvin
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Reflections, thoughts and random musings on working in web performance, cloud services and software development consultancy. Daily Archives: January 3, 2014. January 3, 2014. The post-Christmas clean up. To begin with, at least the following information should easily be available:. Maximum number of simultaneous hits. Longest time to server response. Longest time to page ready. Top 10% requested pages. Top 10% of slowest transactions. Why did the web server take so long to respond? This all sounds simple...
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15 | January | 2014 | Zero Degrees Kelvin
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Reflections, thoughts and random musings on working in web performance, cloud services and software development consultancy. Daily Archives: January 15, 2014. January 15, 2014. Thinking about performance in software and web development. Here’s a sobering thought:. If your system isn’t functional, it won’t attract users. If it doesn’t perform, it will not only fail to attract users, it will also actively drive them away. So how do you ensure that the system that you are building is performant? The softwar...
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The post-Christmas clean up | Zero Degrees Kelvin
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Reflections, thoughts and random musings on working in web performance, cloud services and software development consultancy. January 3, 2014. The post-Christmas clean up. To begin with, at least the following information should easily be available:. Maximum number of simultaneous hits. Longest time to server response. Longest time to page ready. Top 10% requested pages. Top 10% of slowest transactions. Why did the web server take so long to respond? Is it over-loaded with requests? This all sounds simple...
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Don’t forget the user experience! | Zero Degrees Kelvin
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Reflections, thoughts and random musings on working in web performance, cloud services and software development consultancy. May 13, 2014. Don’t forget the user experience! It is easy to lose sight of the fact that what we are trying to achieve is getting the required information to the user as quickly as possible. What happens then when the delivery part is awesomely fast but the user is confused about what to do. Maybe even something as simple as what button should they press? Here is an example –.
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Let Amazon take the strain… | Zero Degrees Kelvin
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Reflections, thoughts and random musings on working in web performance, cloud services and software development consultancy. January 10, 2014. Let Amazon take the strain…. Picture the scene, you are a small special-interest website (no, not that type of site – I’m told that they generally have very good servers anyway! What cheap and quick performance improvements can you make? You can create your own directory structure in S3 that mimics what is already on your server, so you don’t need to modify all th...
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01 | April | 2014 | Zero Degrees Kelvin
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Reflections, thoughts and random musings on working in web performance, cloud services and software development consultancy. Daily Archives: April 1, 2014. April 1, 2014. Getting Started in Web Performance. One question that I hear a lot is “how do you go about getting started in Web Performance? 8221; Well the answer is that you get started where we all get started – working out why software isn’t working quickly enough. OK, so how do you find that out? Need to understand what you are looking for. To un...
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Getting Started in Web Performance | Zero Degrees Kelvin
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Reflections, thoughts and random musings on working in web performance, cloud services and software development consultancy. April 1, 2014. Getting Started in Web Performance. One question that I hear a lot is “how do you go about getting started in Web Performance? 8221; Well the answer is that you get started where we all get started – working out why software isn’t working quickly enough. OK, so how do you find that out? Need to understand what you are looking for. Get a deeper understanding. To under...
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