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How much have cloud failures cost us?
Best practices regarding load testing. In response to recent AWS failure resulting in downtime of Netflix, Pinterest, etc. (Client)
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YouTube w/ Gold, Yahoo w/ Silver, BBC w/ Bronze in Olympics Web Perf
Apica Systems (client) recaps overall performance of sites used to broadcast news/video of the 2012 London Olympics.
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Web Performance monitoring index: Top performing online travel websites
Quick overview of online travel websites and how their web performance holds up.
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Twitter’s performance during the political conventions
Apica Systems (client) has been keeping an eye on the web performance of all major American political parties. During the recent conventions, the tweeting activity managed to alter Twitter's normal web...
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Web performance of music streaming sites; Pandora, Grooveshark, and others
For our latest web performance benchmark we decided to take a look at some popular music streaming sites. There are obviously dozens of websites and applications that allow you to listen to your...
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Quick Tip Video: How to monitor website performance
Quick tutorial video from Apica Systems demonstrating how to set up web performance monitoring with their new service announced last week.
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Which candidate is leading the race? The web performance race, that is.
If presidential elections were based on web performance, we’d likely be inaugurating a new president in a few months. With just over one month until the culmination of the 2012 presidential race, we...
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Web app predictions for 2013 from the Akamai Edge conference
Security threats such as DDoS attacks and SDoS (social media attacks) are top of mind for many organizations. Rightly so, considering the devastating impact an unmitigated attack can have on one’s...
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Getting Mobbed: Are you prepared for a mob of online shoppers?
Groupon, LivingSocial, Dealfind — these sites exist because consumers will always be looking for bigger and better deals on the products and services they love. But while you might think that your...
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Lessons learned from the Amazon Web Services outage
On Monday, Amazon Web Services — the leading provider of cloud services — suffered an outage, and as a result, a long list of well-known and popular websites went dark. According to Amazon’s Service...
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Quick Tip Video: AppDynamics and Google Analytics Integration
Today’s Quick Tip video will highlight one of the most exciting features of the Apica WebPerformance portal: AppDynamics and Google Analytics integration. This new functionality enables you to...
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Load testing like a developer
Creating highly targeted load tests for your web server doesn’t have to be complicated. And it won’t be, at least not if you know what to look for. The secret is to approach a load test with the mind...
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The impact of the election on Twitter’s web performance
The Twitter Election. That’s what everyone’s been calling it. Twitter has ushered in a whole new era of politics. The 2012 presidential race is the first in which voters could interact directly with...
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3 web performance mistakes and how to avoid them
Could you imagine NASA sending a rocket into space without testing it first? What about a racing team putting a brand new car on the track without taking it for a few laps to test the handling and...
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Parallel load testing with Apica ProxySniffer 5.0: A Quick Tip video
A few weeks ago we shared with you the new features in Apica ProxySniffer 5.0, but we don’t want to just tell you about them. We want to show you! Today’s Quick Tip video will look at Apica...
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New Amazon Web Services data center in Sydney added to Apica Agent Network
Earlier this week, Amazon added a brand new Amazon Web Services (AWS) Region to its Global Infrastructure. The Asia Pacific (Sydney) Region, as it is being called, offers important benefits to...
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5 reasons your website might slow down this holiday season (or anytime)
The National Retail Federation (NRF) predicts that this year’s holiday sales will increase 4.1 percent to $586.1 billion. But here’s a wrinkle in the data that nobody really records: The companies that...
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Web performance strong on Cyber Monday, busiest online shopping day of 2012
Retailers might have started offering online holiday discounts earlier than in years past, but that didn’t seem to have much effect on retail activity or sales this Cyber Monday. According to IBM,...
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2013: The year of application optimization for the device-drive Internet
For the past few years, our friends at VMblog.com have run an annual prediction series forecasting the trends most likely to drive adoption of cloud and virtualization technologies in the upcoming...
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