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Performance, Scalability, Architecture - DynaTrace
URL: http://apmblog.compuware.com
Updated: 13 hours 30 min ago
Escape Application Performance “Groundhog Day” with Culture Change
I love movies. There is just something about them that can teach us a lot about life. One of my favorites is Groundhog Day. The construct of this movie is that the main character Phil, played by Bill Murray, is trapped having to live the same day over and over again. This is what it [...]
Categories: Load Testing Blogs
Scott Barber’s Thoughts on the Past and Future of APM
I have spent the past 2 years developing what I’ll call a tool and process agnostic Application Performance Management (APM) framework. This framework couples the valuable APM practices of active monitoring, proactive trending and near-real-time response with related value-adding practices throughout the rest of the application development and delivery lifecycle, such as code profiling and [...]
Categories: Load Testing Blogs
Exploring the PHP World with PurePath Technology!
It is a pleasure to let you know that the Compuware APM PurePath Technology with the upcoming 5.5 release extends to support the PHP technology stack. With the extension of the PurePath technology into the PHP space you have now all the capabilities, which are well known in the Java and .NET space available for [...]
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Can SAP Related Problems Impact Your Commute?
Just as Walt started the engine the car beeped. He realized he might be out of gas by the time he reached his office in the downtown of Ragpo, Glovania. Luckily he recalled there was a gas station at the main junction just before getting to the speedway. He pulled over and rushed to the [...]
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AJAX Edition 4: What makes older versions of IE so slow as compared to newer versions of Firefox?
It’s been a while since we released the last major version of Compuware dynaTrace AJAX Edition. With AJAX Edition 4 we introduce the capability to test across all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) starting with IE6 and all versions of Firefox starting with 3.6. Why is this important? Well, check out the test results of [...]
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Super Bowl Sunday 2013 – Audi vs. Mercedes
Luxury car makers Audi and Mercedes took differing approaches to generating brand awareness during the 2013 Super Bowl: Audi, through its “Prom” big game commercial and subsequent #BraveryWins hash tag campaign on Twitter; Mercedes via its “Soul” big game commercial, featuring a few high-profile celebrities and a very aggressive price point, appealing to a younger [...]
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Are We Under A DDoS Attack?
Ensuring reliability and security of the IT infrastructure at a bank is not an easy task. It gets harder when the bank is very popular, with many branches spread across the country. The potential sources that can affect the end user experience (EUE) range from the internal infrastructure and the internal banking application through various [...]
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Speeding up a Pig+HBase MapReduce job by a factor of 15
The other day I ran a Pig script. Nothing fancy; I loaded some data into HBase and then ran a second Pig job to do some aggregations. I knew the data loading would take some time as it was multiple GB of data, but I expected the second aggregation job to run much faster. It [...]
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Saving MIPS and Money: Automated Mainframe Transaction Tracing and Analysis
For the past decades, mainframe experts have been tasked with tuning their systems, applications, databases and individual DB2 SQL executions. Traditional Monitoring and Application Performance Management (APM) tools provide useful insight to support these tasks. APM for the Mainframe is therefore well established and saves more money by optimizing MIPS and MSUs than these performance [...]
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Super Bowl Sunday 2013 – Winners, Losers, and Casualties
No matter which team you were cheering for (or if you even watched the game at all), Super Bowl Sunday 2013 was more than a football game. Since the late 1990s, Super Bowl advertisers have tried to successfully link their TV ads to their online properties, sometimes with mixed results. Even 15 years later, companies [...]
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