Learn how to measure the key performance-impacting metrics in a cloud-based application. With specific examples of good and bad tests, we make it clear how to get reliable measurements of CPU, memory, disk, and how to map benchmark results to your application. We also cover the importance of selecting tests …
To truly appreciate the simplicity of monitoring in the cloud, it helps to first separate the hype from the reality. What is the cloud? The cloud is just a collection of applications and services layered on top of the same virtualization and storage services that we’re already familiar with in …
As the software world continues to shift to cloud based solutions, testing professionals are expected to provide answers to the new questions: How quickly will the system respond? How many machines (servers, load balancers, switches, etc.) do we need? What happens when a machine (or a rack, cluster, data-center) fails? …
The cloud has enormous potential to reduce operational expenses and achieve new levels of scale, but moving workloads away from the people who depend on them can increase networking costs and hurt productivity. Users expect high performance and don’t care where their apps are hosted.
This video discusses load balancing in the cloud and presents the benefits of horizontal scaling.
CloudPuncher is a load testing and performance analysis service. This video is an introduction to the features of this tool.
The report “Cloud performance from the end user perspective” looks at roughly 300 million individual tests of nine cloud platforms, conducted over a seven-day period.
