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David Cancel and I have had sort of a passing vague, same space and thought process, living in the same Metropolitan area kind of distant acquaintance for about the same year.
About 2-3 months ago, he wrote a pair of articles discussing the efforts he has undertaken in order to try and offload some of the [...]
The Twitter Debate – YATPBP
In: GrabPERF| RANTING| Web Performance
31 May 2008Yes, it’s YATPBP (Yet Another Twitter Performance Blog Post).
About 10 days ago, I turned GrabPERF loose on Twitter. Now before you accuse this of crippling the service and bringing it to its knees, realize that GrabPERF simply requests a document over HTTP about two times a minute. No additional requests are made for images and [...]
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- Tags: GrabPERF, performance, twitter, Web Performance
Twitter: A Success Failure?
In: Blogging| Life| Web Performance
21 Apr 2008When FireFox 1.0 was released, the sites hosting this eagerly awaited software effectively were overwhelmed by the number of users attempting to download it.
A colleague of mine referred to it as a Success Failure. What is that? It simply means that you have been so successful at getting the word out and getting people excited [...]
IE 8 is coming…are you ready?
In: Web Performance
18 Apr 2008So, Microsoft is releasing Internet Explorer 8 later this year, and a Beta is available now.
The question is, are you ready for it?
Internally, the tech savvy folks (myself included) have been tossing around the football of how to tackle it. The leap from 2 to 6 connections per host, on top of the basic rendering [...]
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- Tags: IE8, Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft, MSIE8, performance, sockets, TCP, Web team
New GrabPERF Measurement Locations
In: GrabPERF
11 Jan 2008I know that I have been bad at blogging news about GrabPERF, but today there is some. In the last two weeks, we have added two measurement locations: Washington DC AOL and Argentina LaNacion.
Thanks to Carson Evans of AOL, and Jose Falvo and Leonardo Lancellotta of LaNacion for helping out with the installation process.
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Cyber Monday: Tiger Direct today’s victim
In: Life
26 Nov 2007Want to follow all the Holiday Retail Fun? Check out the GrabPERF Black Friday Dashboard! Follow the Web performance of your favorite retailer all the time!
New and updated for 2008!
This morning, Tiger Direct effectively imploded.
Bad day.
UPDATE: Looks like they found the solution to their problem.
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Black Friday: Sears
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
23 Nov 2007Today’s biggest victim of Black Friday appears to be Sears
Sears measurement data for the last 8 hours can be found here.
UPDATE: It gets worse for Sears.
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GrabPERF: Black Friday Begins Early
In: GrabPERF| Web Performance
23 Nov 2007Look ma: Macy’s is already too busy.
Yeah. Let the fun begin.
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Web Performance, Part IX: Curse of the Single Metric
In: Commentary| The Web| Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org| Work
5 Sep 2008While this post is aimed at Web performance, the curse of the single metric affects our everyday lives in ways that we have become oblivious to.
When you listen to a business report, the stock market indices are an aggregated metric used to represent the performance of a set group of stocks.
When you read about economic indicators, [...]