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PerfBytes 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.

It’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,...

As 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...

It'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...

There 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...

Did you know you were hammering the database 1.5 million times per page load? Our friend Petar Puskarich joins us again for this second half of a great discussion about performance diagnostics. We chat about using diagnostics in production...

Needle. 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...

It’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...

Automate. 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,...

At 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...