Editor’s note: This post was originally written for the The New Stack. You can check out the original here. The most important ability is availability. This is a common statement I hear from sports commentators. Whether athletes are in the NBA, NFL or EPL, they need to be available to play the game before anyone …
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Editor’s note: This post was originally written for the Raygun blog. You can check out the original here. APM is something that some organizations either don’t fully understand or don’t put much thought into until it’s too late. When there’s a problem with an application, the organization scrambles to find a tool that can help …
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Editor’s note: This post was originally written for the Blue Medora blog. You can check out the original here. One-size-fits-all doesn’t work. When it comes to IT infrastructure, it’s one-size-fits-none. Whether on-premise or in the cloud, data centers are complicated, and no two are alike. As your organization’s needs change, your data center infrastructure size …
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In part 3, I talked about how having an application being susceptible to intermittent issues is another reason why small and medium businesses need application testing. In you haven’t read it, go here. In this post, I talk about reason #4. In part 2, I mentioned that the customer was using NAT to separate its …
In part 2, I talked about how having an application that has multiple tiers is another reason why small and medium businesses need application testing. In you haven’t read it, go here. In this post, I talk about reason #3. When I was brought on to help resolve this application issue and started asking my …
In the previous post, I talked about how having an application that was originally designed for the LAN is one reason why small and medium businesses need application testing. In you haven’t read it, go here. In this post, I talk about reason #2. So not only was this application also designed for users being …
When was the last time you were on a website that was working fine, and all of a sudden, it seems to stop working? You click and all you get is the dreaded loading circle. So you wait a couple more seconds, and nothing happens – the page is still loading. After a few more …
Years ago, I was working with a company that was in the middle of migrating many of their applications to a new data center. I came in as part of the team, and my part was to analyze the applications to determine if there would be any performance issues after the migration occurred. For one …
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