The Performance Tour – Season One On January 27, 2020 I left my home in Florida to go around the United States and talk about performance engineering. It was warm, so I am not sure why I chose January to go darting off like that. I wasn’t selling anything. I...
W3C Compliance Every W3C compliant web server is supposed to have a “time taken” field available to reveal how long the web server took to process/serve a resource. However, by default, Apache and many other UNIX based web servers do not have good logging options for...
The idea for SimpleAPM first came about in 2009 when a customer needed an APM solution that supported a non-web application. The only option at the time was a solution that cost more than $100,000.00, which was cost prohibitive for them. After several years of looking...
In 2015 I posted an article about the potential of HTTP/2 (or “H2”) regarding performance improvements. In that article, I explain a bit about the history of HTTP 1.x and how we got to H2 with an overview of how it works. With the release of LoadRunner...
Here’s a new, geeky technical article for all my HP LoadRunner buddies. Recently, I had to work with a web application built on JSON. The page would display a different number of records/rows for a each distinct user id. The user I recorded with had three...
HTTP/2 is big deal, at least for performance engineers. When HP LoadRunner version 12 mentioned SPDY support in the release notes, I started looking into it. I mentioned SPDY in passing in my article here. Steve Gibson recently did a wonderful overview of HTTP/2 on...
