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 to $586.1 billion. But here’s the rub: The companies that are making money are those that have fast, responsive websites. Those with slow websites won’t be cashing...
Lessons learned from the Amazon Web Services outage
Moving to the cloud sounds great ... but what happens when that cloud goes down? After Amazon's recent outages, we look at some lessons learned to help prevent outages of this nature in the future.
2013 web app predictions from Akamai Edge
Last week a few of my colleagues and I flew out to Las Vegas to attend Akamai Edge 2012, Akamai's annual customer conference. Read more to get some of my thoughts and takeaways from the show.
Testing the cloud from above the clouds
Why stay grounded just to perform a load test? With an SaaS-based application living in the cloud, you're free to do your test from anywhere -- even flying at 30,000 feet.
Lessons learned from the Olympics 2012
I recently read this article which mentions the 2012 Olympics ticketing problems: 15 UK Web Performance Nightmares, and the damage they caused There are lots of well publicized web performance problems from Olympic ticketing to denied access to online bank accounts. The IT industry coughs up these problems on an increasingly regular basis, shrugs, and carries on. Software suppliers release product with …
New studies shows that Retailers are struggling to deliver the Omnichannel experience
It seems that brick and mortar stores are fighting back , this recent study shows that 88 percent of consumers admit to ‘webrooming’ – browsing online and then buying in a store. Link to the Accenture Study here The study found that half (49 percent) of consumers believe the best thing retailers can do to improve the shopping experience is to …
The largest DDoS attack so far, but not the last
What happens if you upset the wrong party on the internet ? Background: A 300Gbps distributed DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, thought to be the largest in the world so far, happened between March 18 and March 26 affecting the internet performance mainly across Europe. During the last week we noticed a DDoS attack that started with approximately 10Gbps of traffic mostly …
The Boy Scout approach to moving to the Cloud – be prepared with some Best Practices to ensure optimum performance
So you made a decision to move to the Cloud – well done. With the proper planning and approach, the cloud can provide the perfect dynamic infrastructure for your organization and your web sites and services. Following are five best practices to use. If you can consider these steps, you will find the transition less painful. RULES of the …
Apica support your Mobile Application Management
In 2013, mobile devices will pass PCs to be most common Web access tools. By 2015 media tablet shipments will reach around 50 percent of laptop shipments and over 80 percent of the handsets sold in mature markets will be smartphones. These trends were highlighted by Gartner research in their ”Top 10 Strategic Technology Trends for 2013” presentation at Gartner …
Record Breaking Load Test
We broke our own load testing record – again. Apica was engaged in November to quickly conduct a massive load test for a American election campaign organization. We believe this was the largest load test ever conducted, surpassing the two million virtual user mark we set earlier in the year for a major global brand. The tests conducted surpassed 200,000 …
New load testing portal meets cloud, mobile, and enterprise testing needs of any organization
Moving into 2013 the demand for flexible, on-demand load testing is at an all-time high. Organizations have finally and overwhelmingly recognized the importance of application uptime to customer relations, brand reputation, and the bottom line, and are looking to take control of their web, mobile, and cloud application performance. With this in mind, Apica revealed today ApicaLoadTest.com, a comprehensive load …