Are you the one to decide on implementing your next project based on public
cloud platforms such as Windows Azure? Is it going to be HTML5, Flash or
Silverlight for your rich end-user interface? Have you thought about the
costs running on cloud services that seem cheaper than hosting on your own
hardware? What other open questions and second thoughts do you have that keep
you from making a decision?
Getting End-to-End Visibility in Windows Azure
Our partner ‘software architects' already walked through these questions
and decided to deploy their time cockpit application (timecockpit.com) on
Windows Azure using Silverlight as one of their client technologies for their
Software as a Service (SaaS) offering. With these decisions several
challenges arose such as:
How to get visibility into every end user and automate the collection of
client-side performance and function... (more)
Whether or not you are a fan of U.S. football - it was really hard to avoid
this huge sports event on February 5. In addition to the actual game, it's
the Super Bowl commercials that - besides being very expensive to air -
usually drive a lot of load on the websites of the companies that run their
ads. The question is whether the millions of dollars spent really drive
consumers to these websites and make them do business with them.
As we won't get an answer from the top brands that advertised about the
actual conversion rates we can look at the End User Experience and
performanc... (more)
Microsoft and Sun recently announced their Open Source Project Stonehenge at
the JavaOne conference. Stonehenge is a reference implementation that shows
how to bridge the two major development platforms Java and .NET using Web
Services. This initiative definitely puts the spotlight on heterogeneity and
the challenges that come with it.
Interoperability on the platform level is just the starting point of bridging
the two worlds. It leads to further challenges down the road and several
questions that come with it:
Who needs interoperability? How does it affect team productivity? Is ... (more)
The Moscone Center in San Francisco opened the gates for VMworld 2009. Over
the next couple of days the attendees, partners and the press will hear the
news about upcoming trends and challenges in virtualization and how VMware
(and their user base) is going to face them. The first announcement was about
VMware Go [...] Related posts:
Live from JavaOne 2009 – Day 2 Its day 2 at JavaOne 2009. I had the
chance... Live from JavaOne 2009 – Day 1 JavaOne 2009 officially started
with the open Keynote delivered by... Live from JavaOne – The Cloud Growing
Up? I already listened to a coup... (more)
After spending a lot of time focusing on Client-Side Web 2.0 Performance
Problems it is time to focus on specific Server-Side Performance Problems.
Last week I worked with a client that runs a custom application on Microsoft
CRM 4.0 and experienced performance problems in their test environment.
Individual web requests to query or update data took several minutes, with
some of them eventually timing out. We analyzed some of these long running
and failing transactions and in this blog I present my analysis and hope it
will be beneficial for other MS CRM Developers.
Quick Overview... (more)
Andreas has over a decade of experience as an architect and developer, and currently works as a senior performance architect and technology strategist for dynaTrace Software, where he influences product strategy and works closely with customers in implementing performance management solutions across the application life cycle. He is a regular speaker at software conferences, writes for a number of technology publications, and blogs at http://blog.dynatrace.com
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