Demanding customer expectations and the rapid distribution of information across social media have made website and applications crashes an off-limits path for today’s companies and organizations. Crashes resulting from traffic spikes cause immediate and long-term loss of sales, as well as tarnishing the brand name. When servers or websites go down during highly anticipated events […]
Continuous Testing Improves Speed, Quality
We live in a world that expects immediacy. For a society that gets news updates from Twitter in 140-character increments as it happens while we microwave a complete meal in less than five minutes, anything that takes months—or even weeks or days—seems like an eternity. When it comes to continuous performance testing, organizations and developers […]
Performance Testing: The Unexpected Missing Link in DevOps
It is no secret that DevOps and continuous delivery goes hand in hand in the enterprise, but how do processes such as performance testing fit in to the equation? Many enterprises still harbor the traditional way of thinking—that the QA and performance testing group is completely separate from the development group. A widely held myth […]
Performance Testing is a Team Sport
Performance testing is a vital component of any developer’s working process. The performance of your website or app can be judged by a lot of people in your organization, both technical and non-technical. Developers, operators and performance engineers are on the front lines when it comes to the development of a functioning site/app, but there will […]
SaaS: Building Tools for the DevOps-Minded
DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing are no longer just methodologies and development strategies — they’re all a part of a growing economy within the tech industry. Great Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies such as Chef, Docker and New Relic have done an amazing job of spotting the trends early and building their tools and […]