Episode #17: How to Survive Point Load
Broadcast May 21th, 2013Whether it's planned or unexpected, a flood of traffic hammering any system can be a real shocker as the bits and pieces come crashing down around the ops team and the CIO stops...
View ArticleEpisode #18 Performance Analysis
Broadcast June 3rd, 2013There'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...
View ArticleEpisode #19 Database Performance
Broadcast June 19th, 2013If 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...
View ArticleEpisode #21: Network Performance
Broadcast July 16th, 2013Bellman 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...
View ArticleEpisode #22: Performance in DevOps
Broadcast July 30th, 2013Continuous Deployment, plus Continuous Release might not quite equal Continuously High-Performing apps! As you might have heard, the developers and the ops guys got together...
View ArticleEpisode #23: Everything You Forgot About Memory
Broadcast August 16th, 2013Have you seen my car keys anywhere? The older we get the more we might tend to forget about the exciting topic of performance tuning for memory. We're talking about garbage...
View ArticleEpisode #25 Storage Performance
Broadcast September 10th, 2013What'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...
View ArticleEpisode #26 Performance Test Planning
Broadcast September 25th, 2013Performance left to the end of the project? Only two weeks on the schedule for doing load testing, regardless of the complexity or requirements? No qualified performance...
View ArticleEpisode #27 You Might Be A Performance Tester
Broadcast October 8, 2013Look in the mirror. Do you see someone who loves BBQ more than showering? Do you see someone wearing a wool cap and jacket just to keep warm while working in the datacenter?...
View ArticleEpisode #29 Mobile App and Device Performance
Broadcast November 5th, 2013It'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...
View ArticleEpisode #30 It's the Frackin' Load Balancer
Broadcast November 19th, 2013Back 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 -...
View ArticleEpisode #33 PerfBytes Year in Review 2013
Broadcast December 31st, 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...
View ArticleEpisode #34 Blame The Tool
Broadcast January 7th, 2014”Don’t look at me, boss - it’s a problem with the tool.” In particular it’s probably an incompatibility or extreme complexity with a sophisticated performance testing tool...
View ArticleEpisode #35 Dynamic Data Correlation
Broadcast January 27th, 2014“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...
View ArticleEpisode #36 Performance Centers of Excellence
Broadcast February 7th, 2014Being 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...
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