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Keeping It Real: Avoiding Pitfalls When Load Testing Websites Using A CDN

Posted on May 3, 2012 by admin

There was a time when doing a Website Load Test for a client using a Content Distribution Network (CDN) was an infrequent activity, but these days it’s a common occurrence.  There are more CDN suppliers of course, the newer ones … Continue reading →

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Canterbury Tales: BarCamp Canterbury 2

Posted on April 30, 2012 by admin

Bar Camp Canterbury 2012 happened over the weekend (28th and 29th April), and was an interesting chance to network with local (and not so local) folks, across a range of topics reaching from deep Java OO themes through to bows … Continue reading →

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How Changing Suppliers For Website Monitoring Can Improve Communication Immediately For eCommerce And Operations Teams.

Posted on April 16, 2012 by admin

We’ve seen a steady stream of projects over the last six months, where eCommerce teams have moved sufficiently down the e-Commerce Maturity Curve and wanted to upgrade their current, rather static website monitoring tools. Very often this move has been … Continue reading →

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The Day We Went To BarCamp Canterbury

Posted on May 12, 2011 by admin

On the 30th April SciVisum sponsored the first Canterbury BarCamp and presentations were made by Dr David Hobson of our technical team, and Deri Jones, CEO. Here are their round ups of the day itself: ‘There’s no way this can … Continue reading →

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Internet Explorer 9 reviewed – will it make web performance harder

Posted on September 16, 2010 by admin

Update: 25 September 2010: Looks like the folks at ZDnet are among the first to lose developer time wondering why their site has a problem with  IE9. I’ll come clean from the start and say I’ve never been a fan … Continue reading →

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