Category Archives: Application Performance Monitoring

We do a lot of load testing, on a huge variety of platforms from clients like Tesco who use  the big end platforms such as ATG, through scores of sites where we do .Net load testing or Java /WebSphere, and … Continue reading

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On Tuesday and Wednesday (12th and 13th of March) I was in Earls Court London, at the Retail Business Technology Expo, speaking in the Innovation Theatre. There were some great presentations during the day including one stand out slot by … Continue reading

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It was a treat on Friday to be at the DevopsDays London Conference and to get the chance to speak to, and share the platform with, some of the leading exponents of the new joined-up DevOps world. There was some … Continue reading

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With two kids, it’s very rare I give up a Saturday for work. But the edgeconf this weekend looked like it was going to be worth it: with panel discussions not vendor keynotes! It also featured some of the actual … Continue reading

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I was talking an interesting senior User Experience Manager today, who handles 14 countries for a B2C vendor with very strong European roots,  and at least as many local websites, and who’s got some great advice,  picked up whilst trying … Continue reading

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A number of interesting things are happening at the moment in the crossover of ecommerce capacity planning space and web monitoring and testing, as the need for more realism in data to create more realistic models increases. This month we … Continue reading

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I’m just back from an enjoyable time at the UK Computer Measurement Group (UKCMG) annual conference. Aside from the chance to hear cool presentations from the leading lights of the international CMG community, and to swap war stories with others … Continue reading

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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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An article at eConsultancy caught my eye, Digital B2B marketers struggle to overcome internal cultural challenges,  and reminded me of the varying stages of evolution down the e-Commerce maturity curve that I see on projects. It’s just my anecdotal evidence, … Continue reading

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Some phrases and concepts cause a lot of confusion and take up so much time, when planning website performance management projects. Website ‘Last Mile’ monitoring is one – there are several limitations in practise, and we are finding fewer clients  … Continue reading

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