PerfBytes
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
PerfBytes Live! July 4th, 2013
04 Jul 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Live from PerfBytes' HQ in Monroe, NC - this is a special 4th of July edition of the show: including round-table discussion, interviews and questions ...
Database Performance
19 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
If George Carlin were a DBA he might have said, "A [database] is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff" referring to you...
Performance Analysis
04 Jun 2013
Contributed by Lukas
There's this thing between your ears called your brain. We're not joking about this, it's called your brain. If you really want to provide value to ...
How To Survive Point Load
23 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Whether it's planned or unexpected, a flood of traffic hammering any system can be a real shocker as the bits and pieces come crashing down around the...
Mobile Performance Craziness
07 May 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Our good friend and mobile gadget guru John Curtis from Black Falcon Consulting joins PerfBytes for a crazy conversation about mobile performance craz...
PerfBytes Live! at STPCON Spring 2013
26 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It's time for PerfBytes Live! Please join us at STPCON in April 2013 for a live broadcast recording of the PerfBytes podcast featuring your expertly e...
Agile Performance Testing
16 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
It's a lonely life, as a performance tester in an agile shop. Your work is pushed to the end of the iteration and then they shut you in the lab for f...
Performance Testing in Production
02 Apr 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Production? You remember that system that has to keep running 24x7x365 to keep your customers happy, and employees productive and keep your organizat...
Hiring Top Performance Talent
18 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
There is an old Pete Seeger song that goes like: "Where have all the Performance Gurus gone? Where can they be? (okay, perhaps that's not the exact ...
Types of Performance Tests
05 Mar 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Performance Tests, Stress Tests, Soak Tests, Spike Tests, Benchmarks and Baselines...lions and tigers and bears, oh my! In this episode of PerfBytes w...
LAMP Stack Performance Tuning
19 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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 acro...
Performance Monitoring
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
No-Fluff Cloud Performance
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Web Performance Optimization
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Performance Resolutions 2013
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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 celebration...
Performance Requirements
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
"Mommy?...where do Performance SLA's come from?" Most project managers and product owners spend the majority of their time studying the functional req...
Performance in a Virtualized World
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
Look, just because the Matrix was a complete virtual reality (complete with guns and motorcycles and the girl in the red dress), the virtualization fa...
Holiday Load Testing 2012
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Big Website Crashes
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
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 prev...
Introducing PerfBytes
08 Feb 2013
Contributed by Lukas
This is our first PerfBytes show - call us with questions about performance testing, load testing, stress testing, performance tuning, optimization, p...