What’s More Important: The Performance Testing Tool or the Tester?
What should we be more cautious about choosing: the tool we use or the person to run performance tests? Does the tool or the tester matter more for a good performance test? An aspect we always stress in performance testing is that the tools are…
How Important is it for Performance Engineers to Understand the System Architecture?
Good performance engineers need to know what’s “under the hood” Recently, I was involved in a debate about whether it’s necessary for performance testers to understand the architecture of the system in order to become a specialist in performance/ performance testing/ performance engineering. At Abstracta, this…
2015: The Year of the Super Mega Breach
No need to be a visionary to see that 2015 will be the ‘Year of the Super Mega Breach’ “2014 was yet another reminder that we are losing this contest.” Those were the words used by the RSA President Amit Yoran in his opening keynote at…
Abstracta to Attend the RSA Conference 2015 in San Francisco
We will be attending the RSA Conference 2015 next week! The RSA Conference is the industry’s largest global information security event. This year, they are offering 23 tracks and over 500 speakers from across the industry. There will be over 300 sessions led by some…
Abstracta is hosting the BugATAhon 2015
BugATAhon 2015, The International Crowd Testing Competition, will be held on April 13th in Montevideo, Uruguay What is BugATAhon 2015? A free non-profit international crowd testing competition Challenge to test a live application in 2 hours 75 Mins for web app and 45 mins for…
Free tools to process logs for performance analysis
An overview of free tools to process logs for performance that we created for Apache, IIS, and other web servers Our tools, Replace All and Access Log Analyzer are open and free, located in our Github repository. Some time ago, Símon de Uvarow, (performance expert) started automating tasks…
System Performance Problems
How do we diagnose and fix system performance problems? While working with systems in production, it is common to encounter system performance problems that must be analyzed and solved. In general, those problems are complex, difficult to replicate issues that occur occasionally and may be…
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