Tag: Web Performance
identi.ca and Penalty of Success
The latest “rage” flooding through the social-media world is identi.ca, a Twitter-like micro-blogging service that is built on open-source servers and code.
As with anything that becomes an overnight sensation, the problems of success tend to follow. Using GrabPERF, I have been monitoring the HTML download time of my personal message stream. The results have been [...]
Posted: July 3rd, 2008 under Life.
Tags: GrabPERF, identi.ca, jaiku, Orkut, performance, pownce, social media, twitter, Web Performance
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The Twitter Debate - YATPBP
Yes, it’s YATPBP (Yet Another Twitter Performance Blog Post).
About 10 days ago, I turned GrabPERF loose on Twitter. Now before you accuse this of crippling the service and bringing it to its knees, realize that GrabPERF simply requests a document over HTTP about two times a minute. No additional requests are made for images and [...]
Posted: May 31st, 2008 under GrabPERF, RANTING, Web Performance.
Tags: GrabPERF, performance, twitter, Web Performance
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Hulk break Web site! Yargh!
On type of my usual performance consulting, I have recently taken on the role of Web site breaker/stress tester at work. Our updated external load-testing tool is coming out soon, but we have some clients who need some of its functions now.
So, what does this mean? Well, I have learned a lot about how to [...]
Posted: April 17th, 2008 under Web Performance, Work.
Tags: load test, Web Performance, web testing
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