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Hey, who turned out the lights? Turn on a LAMP - that's the popular semi-standard configuration of Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP which is employed across thousands of websites out there in the wilds of internet reality. Even major vendors like IBM and...

It is not safe to drive a car with your eyes closed. It is also not safe to operate expensive, mission-critical computing systems without monitoring the performance. How much CPU did that query use? How much memory is being allocated/de-allocated? How...

Dude, pull your head out of your cloud. You made the leap into the clouds - running new applications, migrating old ones and all the while trying to figure out how to manage and maintain this new shared and uncontrollable infrastructure's performance....

We tuned the databases - for scaling up and scaling out - grids and clouds and no-sql. We tuned the servers - for scaling up and scaling out - farms and clusters and automated deployment. We tuned the network - accelerations and caching and CDNs....

On this day annually it is typical to make a resolution to "never drink that much alcohol ever again" in reference to the previous night's celebrations and the current recovery from a hangover. It's also a great time to make a new year's resolution...

"Mommy?...where do Performance SLA's come from?" Most project managers and product owners spend the majority of their time studying the functional requirements for the product or application they are building, focusing on user stories that describe...

Look, just because the Matrix was a complete virtual reality (complete with guns and motorcycles and the girl in the red dress), the virtualization fad in our REAL reality isn't quite so sexy. Beneath any gigantic array of virtualized hosts or zones,...

Imagine yourself as a performance tester. It's less than 1 week away from Cyber Monday - and all your efforts have come right down to the wire. You've recommended more servers and memory for production to handle the load. You've recommended changes in...

Episode #2: the PerfBytes show with James Pulley and Mark Tomlinson - we'll be talking about the leading causes of big website crashes and how to prevent disasters before they happen. As always, please call us with questions about your performance...

This is our first PerfBytes show - call us with questions about performance testing, load testing, stress testing, performance tuning, optimization, performance management, processes and tools. We'll try our best to help you find the answers, or at...