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When 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...

Survived the holiday mayhem? How about some official mayhem from the evildoers at Allstate? In this epside of NOTD we'll start examining the simple web performance deficiencies that may have led to the site outages. We welcome Allstate, New York City,...

What better way to renew your faith in performance testing than to review a short list of the few simple things to keep in mind for your engineering efforts. "If your mistake causes such a massive outage that it harms innocent people...most likely...

Thank 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...

Despite their attempt to expand Black Friday and Cyber Monday into an entire week-long shopping boondoggle in 2014 there were a few online retailers who still toppled under heavy load, increased mobile traffic and infrastructure vulnerability. James...

A few great outages to delight our friends in the underworld including Big Billion day in Bangalore, celebrity weddings and baby announcements, shoes from the future and not all comments about legal discrimination in China are being treated equally....

Do 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!...

This holiday season is going to be filled with gadgets - lots of little whiz-bang, awesomely cool, mini-computing, battery-powered doo-hickeys that will promise to make your lives easier through the miracle of mobile micro-computing platforms. Unless...

It’s Apple, Motorola, Canadians, Dehli Housing Authority, naked famous actors and free lasagna on this global episode of News of The Damned from back in September of 2014. There’s no endless free bread sticks when there’s crashes with streaming...

Posthumous 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...