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PerfBytesBack to PerfBytes with Mark TomlinsonMark and leandro were at StarEast conference 2023 and talked a lot about performance, conferences and much more fun!We are getting some more PerfBytes!
2023-09-0639 minPerfBytesWe are Back!PerfBytes podcasts ramping up again! After some hiatus we are back keep generating content that helps performance enthusiasts and professionals to polish your skills! In this episode Henrik, James and Leandro will be talking a bit about the new trends and some differences the industry is experiencing. Stay tuned as more will come!
2023-03-241h 032021-12-281h 28PerfBytesRevisiting Performance Test PlansIn this episode, Leandro (AKA Señor Performo) and Henrik Rexed (the new member of the PerfBytes family) will revisit together with a video version, a topic that never gets old. Performance test plans!They will list and briefly describe the main elements of this sacred document you need to have at hand for all your performance testing efforts. Do not go outside naked without a performance test plan!
2021-06-2251 min
PerfBytes EspañolVolvemos con la tercera!Ya estamos de regreso!No se pierdan amigos el estreno de la nueva temporada de PerfBytes en español! Temporada 3!Proximamente!
2021-03-1801 minPerfBytesNeotys PAC Hero - Legends of PerformanceOn March 23-24, during 24 hours, 20 Performance Experts presented “follow the sun” virtual conferences about what’s new in performance engineering, for people all around the world.This year, we want our Performance Advisory Council Experts to show everybody the ROCK STAR inside them. In this episode our colleague and leader of the Neotys PAC, Henrik Rexed joins me to chat about this next PAC along with PerfBytes Amigo Leandro Melendez.
2021-03-1236 minPerfBytes EspañolFinal de la segunda temporadaEn este cierre de la segunda temporada, rememoramos tropezadamente este 2020. El cual estuvo lleno de dichos tropiezos y al mismo tiempo nos dio muchas ilusiones y planes que se lograron con todo y todo.Cerramos mandando nuestros mejores deseos y que este 2021 este mil veces mejor!Nos vemos en la 3a temporada de PerfBytes en español!
2020-12-2447 min
News of The DamnedNOTD Daily 10-20-2020 Let's Talk SessionToday'e edition of PerfBytes News of the damned Daily is brought to you by Foulk ConsultingFoulk Consulting ServicesFoulk Consulting Services (FCS) has more than 15 years of experience as a high caliber, industry-leading services provider of application performance testing, monitoring, and management with a strong background in software quality assurance. At Foulk Consulting we believe we have the greatest consultants in the world and we love growing our customer-focused relationships. Find out more at www.FoulkConsulting.comSession is one of the more confusing items in performance testing and engineering because we use...
2020-10-2007 min2020-08-191h 11
PerfBytesPerfBytes 4th of July 2020Hello everyone, we're gonna try and keep some tradition with our 4th of July broadcasting - but this time VERY socially distanced from different locations!
2020-07-041h 13PerfBytes EspañolProximamente Segunda TemporadaNo se pierdan amigos proximamente la segunda temproada de PerfBytes en español!Y cuidense mucho de los virus!
2020-03-1902 minNews of The DamnedBlack Friday 2019, Hour 5 - When Everything Goes WrongThis show sponsored by Foulk Consultinghttp://www.foulkconsulting.comOK, So you have worked hard and buttoned up everything you can think of on your website. But still, something has gone wrong. What next?James is joined by a panel of individuals to discuss where to head when disaster is upon youGuests: Brian Brumfield, Foulk Consulting Steve McGinley, Foulk Consulting Herik Rexed, Neotys Mark Tomlinson, PerfBytes
2019-11-2954 minNews of The DamnedBlack Friday 2019, Hour 4 - CDN, Cache & Bots (Oh My!)This show sponsored by Foulk Consultinghttp://www.foulkconsulting.comKeep the load off! One of the easiest things you can do to improve performance is ensure that load that should not be on your site isn't. In this episode we hit some large areas whish are commonly overlooked which can dramatically impact your performanceGuests: Brian Brumfield, Foulk Consulting Steve McGinley, Foulk Consulting Leandro Melendez, PerfBytes Espanol
2019-11-2949 min
Ask PerfBytesWhat is the difference between think and pacing?Leandro Melendez, aka Señor Performo, host of PerfBytes Español, joins me to answer the question "What is the difference between think time and pacing?", and how to leverage them to create load scenarios.
2019-10-0938 minPerfBytes EspañolPreguntas - Hardware para performance y calculo de generadoresEn el primer episodio de nuestro podcasts donde respondemos preguntas enviadas por nuestra audiencia, contestamos a un par de preguntas anidadas.Que recomendaciones de Hardware para pruebas de performance?Como calculo el numero de generadores de carga que voy a necesitar?No dejen de mandar sus preguntas!preguntas@perfbytes.com
2019-07-2937 minAsk PerfBytesWhat is standard deviation, and why is that important in performance testing?Leandro Melendez, aka Señor Performo, host of PerfBytes Español, joins me to look at what Standard Deviations and Sigmas are and how to use them in the world of Performance Analysis.
2019-07-0346 minAsk PerfBytesHow do I retrain my Service Virtualization?In this episode of Ask PerfBytes, Mark Tomlinson joins me answer the question, "How do I retrain my service virtualization?"
2019-06-0531 minPerfBytes EspañolHistorias de PAC Chamonix segunda parteEn este episodio de PerfBytes Español continua la platica de los miembros y sus presentaciones de el segundo dia de el PAC de Neotys en Chamonix. Siguieron los nombres de maestros y gurus como Alan Gordon, Jonathon Wright, Hari Krishnan Ramachandran, Bruno Ardoux, Srivalli Aparna y Twan Koot!Ademas ma cai mucho al eskiar!
2019-05-2130 minPerfBytes EspañolHistorias de PAC Chamonix primera parteEn este episodio de PerfBytes Español les platico de los miembros y sus presentaciones de el primer dia de el PAC de Neotys en Chamonix. Maestros y gurus como Stijn Schwepers, Andy Grabner, Alexander Podelco, su servidor, Stephen Townsend y Stefano Doni.Primer episodio, narrando el primer dia, pues fueron dos dias.
2019-04-2227 minPerfBytesPerfBytes Live from STPCON Spring 2019We are here near San Francisco joining in the basement area of the Hyatt Regency Burlingame with a bunch of deranged software testing geeks to talk about performance and stuff!
2019-04-041h 43PerfBytes EspañolQue son las pruebas de PerformanceEn el primer episodio de PerfBytes en español vamos a definir que son en si las pruebas de performance, pues parece ser que el mundo está inundado de confusion.Ademas incluye el anuncio de el ganador de la rifa de los tenis de PerfBytes!
2019-03-1138 minPerfBytesDynatrace PERFORM 2019 Welcome ReceptionLive from Dynatrace PERFORM 2019 in Las Vegas, it's - Pure PerfBytes Performance Welcome Reception
2019-01-2930 minAsk PerfBytesHow can I leverage production information captured by my APM tool in my load tests?In the last episode of Ask PerfBytes, Henrik Rexed (@Hrexed) and Brian Wilson (@emperorwilson) talked about integrating load and monitoring tools by leveraging their APIs. In this episode, they answer the question of how to leverage all of the great data the monitoring tools capture to create better load tests.
2019-01-0222 minNews of The DamnedPerfBytes Black Friday, Hour FourMakeup, Ballet Slippers, Email, A statement from management and the user behavior problem
2018-11-2350 minNews of The DamnedPerfBytes Black Friday, Hour 3The International contingent, Spot Sales, Ticketmaster, GT omega, Cyber "Meh"Day
2018-11-2349 min2018-11-2348 min2018-11-2354 minPerfBytesPerfBytes Live from STPCON Fall 2018A small group of expert performance gurus gathered in the bowels of the Sheraton Pentagon City to discuss hot topics in performance testing and engineering.
2018-10-251h 25PerfBytesNeotys Virtual PAC 2018Hey PerfBytes Listeners - Henrik and I want you to know about an exciting, totally FREE, online world-wide virtual conference dedicated to performance testing and engineering from our partner and sponsor Neotys (http://www.neotys.com/performance-advisory-council). it's the VIRTUAL Performance Advisory Council conference on June 6th, 2018! Register today!
2018-05-2325 minPerfBytesPerfBytes Live STPCON Spring 2018We are gonna talk about Performance Challenges in 2018, a little NOTD with all the awesome attendees at STPCON here in Newport Beach, CA.
2018-04-121h 30PerfBytesPerfBytes Live at STPCON Fall 2017Live again from STPCON near Dulles airport in Virginia - we're chatting about holiday readiness, news of the damned events, shoes and watches and amazing stories of performance learning from this incredible conference
2017-09-291h 50PerfBytesPerfBytes Summer BBQ 2017Brisket, pulled pork, asian ribs, St. Louis style ribs, jalapeno poppers, another brisket, trip tip and ice cream, chips and homemade salsa and BBQ sauce. And 4 dogs.
2017-08-271h 06PerfBytesPerformance Quick AttacksDay 1 on a performance project, getting started without knowing anything or jumping into the fire fight during an outage, you might need to have a few good pointers on the first few steps to take in your performance efforts. In this episode we share our best tips on how to get started and what you can prioritize in your work. James imitates Jimmy Stewart and Eric Proegler joins us for the first full episode.This episode of PerfBytes is exclusively sponsored by our friends at www.flood.io. Check 'em out!
2017-05-121h 09PerfBytesPerfBytes Live STPCON Spring 2017We are sharing details about performance, load testing, Phoenix, word on the street, squiggly carpet and speed dating.
2017-03-171h 34
PerfBytesPerformance BenchmarkingWhat's a benchmark? What's a baseline? What's the frackin' difference between these things? If you've ever been stuck in a meeting with someone who asks for a benchmark, chances are they have not a clue what they are saying. This episode is a response to a listener's inquiry to ask@perfbytes.com.This episode is formally sponsored by our good friends at www.flood.io and www.hpe.com - give them a visit to find out more about what they do!
2017-02-181h 18
PerfBytesDynatrace Perform 2017 Tuesday MorningPerfBytes and PurePerformance combined interviews and coverage from Dynatrace Perform 2017 - Tuesday Morning
2017-02-071h 06PerfBytesPerfBytes 2016 Year in ReviewHappy New Year PerfBytes listeners!! Every year we take a few minutes, or maybe an hour and a half, to look back at the year and reflect on how things were. What went right. What went wrong. And then issue PERFIE awards to everyone involved! Sarge gives you a refresher talk, Satan signs as we sign off 2016!This show is officially sponsored by our good friends at www.hpe.com and www.flood.io! Check 'em out!
2016-12-311h 35PerfBytesPerfBytes Thanksgiving 2016It's time. Gobble, gobble, gobble. Eat stuffing. Oh, check the website to see if it's still up and running. Damn. Go to the office, work 72 hours straight and then try to drive home. Mark and James will help you to avoid this plan, hopefully. We talk about default carts, Docker and last-minute CDN configuration. Anything to help you survive! This season of PerfBytes is formally supported by our sponsors Hewlett Packard Enterprise (www.hpe.com) and Flood.io (www.flood.io)! Thanks guys!
2016-11-241h 13PerfBytesLearning More about Apica SystemAll the way from Stockholm, Sweden - via Santa Monica, California we are delighted to have Daniel Freij from Apica System join us for this episode, introducing Apica System as a new sponsor of PerfBytes News of The Damned. Daniel shared some keen insights about Zebra Tester, Apica System, load tool innovations and customer challenges. This is a dedicated episode sponsored by https://www.apicasystem.com.
2016-11-0356 minPerfBytesPerfBytes Live STPCON Fall 2016Little scotches. PerfBytes Does Dallas. 37ths floor. Flood.io Shiner Bock. Whisky. Beers at the back.
2016-09-221h 44PerfBytesPerfBytes Live Summer BBQ 2016Hey PerfByters - it's time! This is the 4th annual PerfBytes BBQ celebration and live broadcast at Howard's house in Framingham, MA. We're a gathering of PerfBytes listeners enjoying a backyard BBQ competition, fine wines and spirits, News of The Damned and the endless camaraderie of Performance Engineers.This special episode of PerfBytes is proudly sponsored by the good people at Techwell.com. Use the promocode PERFBYTES when you register here: http://well.tc/swperfbytes
2016-08-271h 22PerfBytesExtending Your Performance ToolsEvery tool is extensible, from commercial closed source to freeware to open source. It simply becomes a question of how and where you hook into the system. This is why performance testing tools are built around general purpose computer languages. At the time a tool is designed and constructed it’s impossible to foresee all of the possible interfaces and applications it will be used to test. As a result, the ability to extend is critical capability of performance testing tools. This season of PerfBytes is formally supported by our sponsors Hewlett Packard Enterprise (www.hpe.com) and Flood.io (ww...
2016-07-191h 01PerfBytesSwitching and ConvertingIn the eventual career of a performance tester there will come a day when your current tool just can’t cut it, or your boss wants you to switch, or the R&D department for your favorite tool all give up and just quit. For whatever reason, it’s good to know the ins and outs of switching tools and converting your work into a new tool. This season of PerfBytes is formally supported by our sponsors Hewlett Packard Enterprise (www.hpe.com) and Flood.io (www.flood.io)! Thanks guys!
2016-05-261h 07PerfBytesWhat's Missing?Have you seen me? I'm a tool feature that's been missing for many months or even years. In this next episode of PerfBytes we'll investigate exactly what kinds of features and capabilities we'd love to see make their way into every performance tool on the market! So many times these great ideas are left aside due to complexity, cost or lack of popularity. But still - wouldn't it be nice!?!PerfBytes Season 5 is formally sponsored by: - Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (http://www.hpe.com) - Flood.io (http://www.flood.io)
2016-05-171h 21PerfBytesPerfBytes Live STPCON Spring 2016Broadcasting live from the Software Test Professional's conference here in the Spring of 2016! Sharing performance stories, tales from the conference talks and workshops and then the typical giveaway of the famous PerfBytes Shoes!
2016-04-071h 27PerfBytesBrave New ToolsWelcome to Episode 73 and the new season of PerfBytes...yes, that's right it would be Season 5! Our theme this Spring of 2016 is all about tools, it's not just about the bass. In this Part 1 of the tools and techniques topic we chat about new comers to the load testing, a spring time bounty of JMeter in the cloud, some new innovations from the incumbent giants, a few fringe tools and a little DIY madness, all to help you be more successful in your performance projects! This season of PerfBytes is formally supported by our sponsors Hewlett Packard Enterprise (www.hpe...
2016-02-231h 08PerfBytesPerfBytes 2015 Year In ReviewWhat better topic to cover in our first episode of 2016, then a look back on the last year of PerfBytes in 2015! We celebrate some of our favorite episodes and NoTD disasters and also hand out the first-ever PERFIE awards! Special mentions for Tim Western, Simon Knight and Prancercize!
2016-02-0255 minPerfBytesPerfBytes Live! at Dynatrace PERFORM 2015 Day 2Here's the second day of live broadcasting from Dynatrace PERFORM2015!
2015-10-151h 19PerfBytesAn Evening with Dynatrace GurusWe spend an evening with the gurus at the DynaTrace conference. Lots of stories to share and giving away a pair of PerfBytes shoes!
2015-10-151h 53PerfBytesPerfBytes Live! at Dynatrace PERFORM 2015 Day 1Kicking off our 2-day live broadcasting from Dynatrace PERFORM2015 - thank you to Andreas and Laura for helping bring PerfBytes to the event and thanks to Stephen Feloney for helping add to the moderately chaotic free-thinking conversation to set the tone!
2015-10-141h 232015-10-071h 25PerfBytesTools of The TradeTools, tools, tools - it's a tools show! Let's get to talking about the tools of the trade. Seriously, why are we so obsessed with this whole idea of load testing tools and diagnostics, and profiling, and simulation, emulation, load generation and visualization? As we respond to popular demand for PerfBytes to cover more about tools - let's kick things off with an overview! This episode is formally sponsored by our friends at www.soasta.com - check 'em out.
2015-10-011h 04PerfBytesPreparing for Cyber Madness 2015It's another year of Black Friday, Cyber Monday and way too much talking turkey around e-commerce infrastructures on this get-em-ready episode where we talk about new tips for 2015, what's changed over the last few years and what you can start doing today. It's not too late to get ready. Plus a special dramatic reading of the PerfBytes Holiday Haiku!
2015-09-1055 min2015-08-0252 min2015-08-021h 02PerfBytesBots Bots Bots Yeah!Hello, this is Robot X - I would like to crawl and blast your website with my illegitimate traffic. And we spend time chatting about the differences between known and unknown load caused by semi-intelligent automated agents: BOTS! We cover a little bit of summertime news, the first PerfBytes radio play and plenty of details on how to include bot traffic in your workload profiles.Episode is formally sponsored by our good friends at www.smartbear.com and www.soasta.com.
2015-07-031h 12
2015-03-311h 13PerfBytesNews of The Damned 2-26-2015You might think it's a slow time of the year for website outages...given that everyone blew up back in the holidays, but hold on to your jackelopes! We've got McGraw Hill punishing students being in Indiana, Kanye West stomping innocent shoppers with shoe sales and and tourist wannabe's in upstate New York getting huffpost'ed to death. It's a great day for them all to join the PerfBytes News of The Damned! BWaaahaahaahhaaaaaa!
2015-03-2519 minPerfBytesSharepoint Performance with Andi GrabnerWeb Parts Gone Wild!!! In this episode of PerfBytes Howard and Mark chat with the performance evangelist Andreas Grabner from DynaTrace as we dig deep into the dirty secrets about Microsoft's Sharepoint platform. Whether it's tuning app pools for optimal threading and CPU utilization, or cleaning up those crazy custom list elements, Andreas has tips to help even the most seasoned Sharpoint developer make some improvements! We missed James on this episode due to technical difficulties.This episode is formally sponsored by our good friends at SOASTA (www.soasta.com) and SmartBear (www.smartbear.com) - check 'em...
2015-03-101h 12PerfBytesNews of The Damned 2-9-2015Greetings to all you PerfBytes listeners, Lucifer once again introduces another round of stories about websites crashing and the punishment of innocent end-users. We cover more charitable ticketing websites, Chelsea football, New Orleans tax assessments, college entrance exams and the UK National Lottery! It's all Bwwwwaaaahaahahahahaaahaaaaa!
2015-03-0427 minPerfBytesWeb Services PerformanceWhen you email us a question or suggestion to our email ask@perfbytes.com, this is what happens. Sandeep clearly listened to all the episodes so far in the history of PerfBytes and pointed out that we hadn't covered Web Services performance testing specifically. He was right. So Sandeep, this episode is for YOU!
2015-02-101h 11PerfBytesPerfBytes 2014 Year In ReviewThank you to our sponsors and listeners for making 2014 our best PerfBytian year yet! Now becoming a tradition for the third year in a row, James and Mark review the best, worst and most hilarious experiences of this 2014 year of performance. We're checking in with Prancercize.com, mentioning the website that shall not be named and nominating a nude actor to the be the PerfBytes Person of The Year. This episode is formally sponsored by our good friends at www.smartbear.com - check it out!
2015-01-011h 23PerfBytesBatch PerformanceDo know about all that stuff running overnight, all night long, that sometimes fails in the middle of the night? And then it completely ruins your day when your boss comes to your desk and asks: "Did you ever test that settlement reports job?" Ooops! On this episode of PerfBytes we'll answer an email from ask@perfbytes.com with tips on testing and optimizing batch job performance.Episode formally sponsored by our good friends at www.smartbear.com - check it out!
2014-12-3158 minPerfBytesNews of The Damned 9-1-2014Posthumous posting from earlier this year, James and Mark cover a small suite of satanic shame in this episode of PerfBytes' News of The Damned. Airlines, passengers and raw materials used to make air planes are all melting down at the same time - at least the planes themselves are staying in the air. We see innocent charities hammered by kindness and still Vincent Price keeps laughing as websites keep crashing.
2014-12-0133 minPerfBytesPerfBytes Live at STPCON Fall 2014It's time for PerfBytes Live at the STPCON conference in Denver, Colorado! In the unseasonably warm November 2014 this is a recording of the live broadcast of the PerfBytes podcast with your abstractly random hosts Mark Tomlinson, James Pulley and guest host Howard Chorney covering the conference hot topics such as continuous continuousness, performance puzzlers, Denver police swat teams and PRONQ. We have two unusually novel additions to the News of The Damned and as always we give away a pair of PerfBytes shoes to innocent audience members. As supporters of the Software Test Professionals performance testing community, the PerfBytes podcast...
2014-11-061h 12
PerfBytesWelcome Back to PerfBytesAfter a short summer vacation, your trusted source of performance testing advice, wisdom and humor returns as James and Mark chat about industry standardization and certification, holiday SWAT teams, uncomfortable Kevlar, sacred performance undergarments and microbial shrimp. Welcome Back to PerfBytes!
2014-09-1750 min2014-07-0459 minPerfBytesThe Performance ManifestoThe second hour of the PerfBytes Live BBQ, we are talking about the introduction of the Performance Manifesto.
2014-07-041h 01PerfBytesPerfBytes Live BBQIt's the 4th of July, so it must be time for PerfBytes Annual meetup and live show broadcasting!
2014-07-041h 06PerfBytesNews of The Damned - UK Special ReportPerfBytes frequent listener and long-time performance guru Richard Bishop gives this special report on the recent outages in Great Britain, which is not having such great luck at keeping public-facing websites up-and-running.
2014-05-2917 minPerfBytesNews of the Damned 5-5-2014It’s time for PerfBytes News of The Damned for May 5th, 2014. Satan once again kicks of a round of impressive stories of website and system crashes from around the world. We pay credit to a drunken ticket sales site, Ted Nugent, Hello Kitty, miraculous tandem web server configurations, and Man United - all of whom have the unfortunate luck, or lack thereof, to be joining us this week! And we learn about typical ASP.NET page design, unprepared lack of load balancing and how a CDN might not solve all your problems. As Vincent Price once said: “Bwaaahhaaahaahaaaaaaa!”
2014-05-0515 minPerfBytesPerformance in DevelopmentAs the spring time flowers blossom and warm sunlight shines upon the meadow, somewhere there's a junior developer struggling to fix a scalability defect in production with not one frickin' clue about how they ended up in that messy predicament. In this riveting episode of PerfBytes we chat about how some organizations end up doing all their performance work in development: as an environment, a phase of work, an organizational role or even just that plain 'ole DevOps thing again. James conjures up Dragnet references, Mark channels Scott Barber and Tim Koopmans lends a Perf Rant about time-to-first-byte vs. WPO!
2014-04-2940 minPerfBytesPerfBytes Live! at STPCON Spring 2014It's time for PerfBytes LIVE! Please join us again at STPCON in April 2014 for a live broadcast recording of the PerfBytes podcast featuring your wildly banal hosts Mark Tomlinson and James Pulley. We are celebrating the one year anniversary of the PerfBytes Live STPCON broadcasting and will include our coverage of the STPCON news, the performance year in review, the News of The Damned, industry headlines, extemporaneous speaking from actual performance testers and live Q&A with the members of the audience. Attendees in-person will be entered into a drawing to win a pair of PerfBytes shoes! As supporters of...
2014-04-1744 minPerfBytesNews of The Damned for 3-24-2014There are even more ticket sales websites crashing in the UK, so it must be time for PerfBytes News of the Damned. In this episode for March 24th, 2014 we talk about Kate Bush’s rockin’ concert dates at the Apollo theater after thirty-five years, a roving underwater shark named Lydia, crowd-sourced searchers for flight Malaysian flight 370, and so many followers of Soul Cycle are disrupted in their progress towards self-actualization. The BBC iPlayer takes a hit and James nearly hurts himself while embracing the inner e-Vil, laughing along with Vincent Price.
2014-03-3122 min
PerfBytesPerformance Diagnostics Part 1Needle. Haystack. Go! Sometimes all we get from our load testing tools is a capture of the response times and throughput, and maybe some minimal resource monitoring if you're lucky. That means to actually see deeply into the application code as it is running, a diagnostics package can open that black-box to you, to find out exactly WHY the system is running slow. As you dig into the system under test you’ll be able to see exactly why the % CPU utilization is so high, and why so many bytes/sec are being pumped through the stack and exactly the SQ...
2014-03-1829 minPerfBytesNews of the Damned for 3-4-2014It’s time for PerfBytes News of the Damned for March 4th, 2014, with our special founding father Carlos Chidiac. Websites are a crashin' like crazy around the world and special applause to the IT folks in the UK who are leading the pack in 2014 with outages! Fanatical figure skating fans, donut-luvin' brits and the on-premise melt-down at Marks & Spencer all join us this week. Bwaaahhaaahaahaaaaaaa!
2014-03-1021 minPerfBytesContinuous Performance TestingAutomate. Rinse. Repeat. Every day at every hour and every minute there are developers writing code, committing code to the repo, building snapshots, checking out stuff, debugging it, profiling it and generally making things happen continuously. So, why not have performance testing be part of that continuous world? It’s a hot topic in this edition of PerfBytes where we are joined by our fellow pancake-loving co-originator Carlos Chidiac as we debate the value and pragmatics of integrating performance into your continuous integration and continuous delivery process automation. Don’t be scared by James’ Perf Rant about CPT, Agile & DevOps and Ca...
2014-03-1041 minPerfBytesNext Generation Performance ToolsAt some point after working in the same jobs for twenty years, you start to see a trend in the tools that you use every day. They have similar weaknesses, or similar features for sure, but one thing that you might not spend time considering is the gaps in those tools' capabilities. What if you were calling the shots for the future design and functionality for your favorite performance tool? In this episode we have a good and long chat about those kinds of ideas and features, also discussing some of the top movers and shakers in the industry. Join...
2014-02-2138 minPerfBytesNews of the Damned for 2-18-2014It’s time for PerfBytes News of the Damned for February 18th, 2014 - this is the birthday edition edition of PerfBytes where basically we just make fun of the crashing online ticket websites in the UK, the Veterans Administration and some more high school students flood a website trying to get into college sports. Hats off again to the folks in the IT department giving Satan some true competition in the marketplace of darkness.
2014-02-2115 minPerfBytesPerformance Centers of ExcellenceBeing a performance tester is a lonely life. Stranded in the data center, working long nights in the freezing cold without anyone to talk to but the little running icon man in the LoadRunner Controller. But wait, you could start a Performance Center of Excellence! That way you could join forces with other performance testers and engineers at your company and then you’ll be part of a team. And you will have friends maybe for the first time in your life. In this episode of PerfBytes we’ll talk about the different things you need to know before you star...
2014-02-0833 minPerfBytesNews of the Damned for 2-7-2014It’s time for PerfBytes News of the Damned for February 7th, 2014 - this is the 2014 Super Bowl edition of PerfBytes. Some project managers from the big names in advertising are probably looking for new jobs this month after outages at Maserati, Kia and Esurance. And not to be outdone, information security mayhem sends a bunch of Germans scrambling to crash a website with a name that James can’t pronounce. Ausgezeichnete Aufmerksamkeit auf Tests von der Teufels Verwandten aus Deutschland!
2014-02-0816 minPerfBytesNews of the Damned for 1-27-2014It'll be hard to forget this globally diverse episode covering fantastic outages from Canada, China and the UK. PerfBytes News of the Damned, where Satan heaps a heartfelt congratulations to those in the IT department who have been highlighted in the news recently for exemplary end-user punishment, website outage and system failure.
2014-01-2713 minPerfBytesDynamic Data Correlation“You put your left boundary in, you put your left boundary out. You do the hokey pokey and you turn the script about.” Dynamic data correlations. (“...that’s what it’s all about”). In this episode of PerfBytes we cover the most technically complex and challenging part of load test scripting. James and I scratch the surface on this topic of transport level traffic analysis and automated scripting practices; the basic tips to help newcomers get started on the right foot. We help test managers understand the time requirements and learning curve for payload pattern mastery. You’ll learn just a few importan...
2014-01-2732 minPerfBytesNews of the Damned for 1-07-2014Welcome to the first PerfBytes News of the Damned independent podcast segment for January 1st, 2014. As usual, our introduction from Satan heaps a heartfelt congratulations to those in the IT department who have been highlighted in the news recently for exemplary website outage and system failures. In this episode both Myer and the Bill Nye join the News of the Damned.
2014-01-0710 minPerfBytesPerfBytes Year In Review 2013Happy New Year PerfBytes listeners, this episode is dedicated to you! In this episode we review all the best items from the last twelve months of PerfBytes shows, including the #1 rated show, the best and weirdest News Of The Damned and a little bit of Prancercizing. We announce the PerfBytes Person of the Year for 2013 and the future changes to the show in 2014. Thank you all for listening and here's to prosperous pod-casting in the new year!
2014-01-0159 minPerfBytesVirtual User Tips 'n Tricks Part 2In this second of two episodes our friend and sponsor Tim Koopmans will be joining us again as we cover many of the virtual user scripting tips and tricks that we've learned over the many years of using almost every tool on the planet. This episode will review tips that dig a little deeper into debug logging, parameterizing test data, building scripts by hand and combining multiple protocols in your scripts. Then we cover some not-so-interesting Industry News, The News of The Damned, Ask PerfBytes and don't forget to check out the bonus tips we shared over on SoundCloud: www...
2013-12-171h 08PerfBytesVirtual User Tips 'n Tricks Part 1Here's a suggestion: flip up that blast shield and tell old Obi Wan Kenobi to take a try at scripting up a headless driver to generate transport-layer traffic with data correlation, randomization and parameters that simulates thousands or even millions of calls against the system. It's not so easy even when you use the force, eh old man!? In this first of two episodes Tim Koopmans will be joining us as we cover many of the virtual user scripting tips and tricks that we've learned over the many years of using almost every tool on the planet. Starting with the...
2013-12-051h 00PerfBytesIt's the Frackin' Load BalancerBack when I grew up in Minnesota we played a game called "Duck, Duck, Gray Duck where one my friends would run around the circle of all us kids and tap us on the head - around and around. It's basically the same way a load balancing algorithm works to enable horizontal scalability of large systems. Except that the load balancer would not randomly tap one of us and say Gray Duck and then go sprinting around to take our spot. That's not actually how node eviction works in clustering. In this episode of PerfBytes we are joined by our...
2013-11-201h 09PerfBytesMobile App and Device PerformanceIt's different for mobile. The variable resources like network and cpu, the limited space and screen size all force you to get your game on for mobile application performance. In this episode Ophir Prusak from Blazemeter.com joins us to discuss the bits that fly off your application as the rubber of your fat and lazy code hits the hard pavement of the device. James tries to laugh like Vincent Price and Mark reminds us about the European restrictions protecting nuisance birds. This episode of PerfBytes is formally sponsored by Flood.io (www.flood.io).
2013-11-051h 10PerfBytesPerfBytes Live! at STPCON Fall 2013It's time for PerfBytes LIVE! Please join us again at STPCON in October 2013 for a live broadcast recording of the PerfBytes podcast featuring your wildly banal hosts Mark Tomlinson and James Pulley. We are celebrating the one year anniversary of the PerfBytes podcast and this special episode will be broadcast LIVE from the STPCON conference and will include our coverage of the STPCON news, the performance year in review, the News of The Damned, industry headlines, extemporaneous speaking from actual performance testers and live Q&A with the members of the audience. Attendees in-person will be entered into a drawing...
2013-11-011h 00PerfBytesStorage PerformanceWhat's the one thing in common with both hard drives and pizza? In this episode of PerfBytes we discuss yet another essential physical resource common to computer performance: the disk! Whether it's local hard drives, network attached storage, nfs, SAN array or flash SSD - the disks are a common bottleneck that can leave your application in a lurch; sluggish, slow and lifeless.
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PerfBytesNetwork PerformanceBellman asked Ford, "Do you know the way to San Jose?" More importantly, do you know how many hops it takes for your packet to get there? In this episode of PerfBytes we'll focus on the infrastructure that allows all the different components of your system to work together: the network. Understanding the essential sources of latency for what makes your network transfer slow, what causes congestion and how to measure the health of your network during a load test. Ping!
2013-07-161h 01PerfBytesPerfBytes Live! July 4th, 2013Live from PerfBytes' HQ in Monroe, NC - this is a special 4th of July edition of the show: including round-table discussion, interviews and questions and plenty of interjection from a drunk wookie.
2013-07-041h 39PerfBytesDatabase PerformanceIf George Carlin were a DBA he might have said, "A [database] is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff" referring to your application's data. This episode of PerfBytes will review the basics of relational database performance, the core components of a database engine that are critical for good performance and how to avoid a few pitfalls in database design. Oh, you're about to conduct your first database performance test? Listen to a few tips on planning and how to monitor performance in the first few runs. Plus we read some PerfBytian...
2013-06-191h 03PerfBytesPerformance AnalysisThere's this thing between your ears called your brain. We're not joking about this, it's called your brain. If you really want to provide value to your team as a performance engineer, you need to start using your brain. This episode of PerfBytes will help you to understand the basic different types of analysis for performance with a few concrete examples. Mark rants about zombie performance testers, James cracks himself up about Prancercize, and oh yeah, get out that old calculator from college.
2013-06-041h 04PerfBytesMobile Performance CrazinessOur good friend and mobile gadget guru John Curtis from Black Falcon Consulting joins PerfBytes for a crazy conversation about mobile performance craziness. We chat about the true impact to your system performance caused by the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and what you can do about it. John covers the marketing-simple ABC's for mobile performance and James offers up straight-ahead description of latch conditions due to high-latency mobile traffic. We wrap everything together into a deep-fried taco wrap in a tortilla for this Cinco de Mayo edition of La Radio PerfBytes. ¿Puedes oírme ahora?
2013-05-071h 01PerfBytesPerfBytes Live! at STPCON Spring 2013It's time for PerfBytes Live! Please join us at STPCON in April 2013 for a live broadcast recording of the PerfBytes podcast featuring your expertly equipped hosts Mark Tomlinson and James Pulley. This show will include our coverage of the STPCON news, current events, industry headlines, extemporaneous speaking from actual performance testers and live Q&A with the members of the audience. You might even win a pair of PerfBytes shoes! As supporters of the Software Test Professionals performance testing community, the PerfBytes podcast is powered by creative community-driven contributions and the overwhelming desire to improve performance testing practices across our...
2013-04-261h 00PerfBytesNo-Fluff Cloud PerformanceDude, pull your head out of your cloud. You made the leap into the clouds - running new applications, migrating old ones and all the while trying to figure out how to manage and maintain this new shared and uncontrollable infrastructure's performance. In this episode of PerfBytes we'll spend time discussing the in's and out's of THE CLOUD and what steps you need to take to make good on all that elastic scalability and redundancy and cost-saving performance. Mark will share a poem about cloud-based load testing tools. James will have a rant about how you're making the cloud provider's...
2013-02-0859 minPerfBytesHoliday Load Testing 2012Imagine yourself as a performance tester. It's less than 1 week away from Cyber Monday - and all your efforts have come right down to the wire. You've recommended more servers and memory for production to handle the load. You've recommended changes in the load balancer configuration to keep the traffic flowing smoothly. You sent your top ten list of SQL queries to the DBA's - hopefully they got the changes committed in time. And now hopefully you have time to call in to PerfBytes and tell us all about it!! We'd love to hear from you folks who have been...
2013-02-0854 minPerfBytesIntroducing PerfBytesThis is our first PerfBytes show - call us with questions about performance testing, load testing, stress testing, performance tuning, optimization, performance management, processes and tools. We'll try our best to help you find the answers, or at least we'll be entertaining as we make stuff up.Original Air Date: 10/30/2012
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