Monthly Archive for: ‘June, 2012’
Don’t be distressed by DDoS
On May 9, Ustream, a service that lets users broadcast live video from a computer or any mobile devices in minutes, faced the largest DDoS attack it has ever experienced. In a statement released that day, Brad Hunstable, CEO of Ustream, said, “This is an actively managed attack of a scale that we have never seen, that continues to change …
Read MoreWhy your media website should be optimized for the mobile web
Which device do you turn to when news breaks? Forty-five percent of U.S. adults use their smartphones to get most of their news, according to The Pew Research Center’s State of the News Media 2012 report. But when news breaks and readers can’t access the site after waiting for what seems like hours (but is probably only seconds), they leave. …
Read MoreHow to build your best test
In my last post, I covered why the cloud represents a golden opportunity to perform capacity planning. Although the cloud provides an ideal environment for capacity planning, don’t make the mistake of viewing it through rose-colored glasses. You still have to make sure you have a proper test harness set up and the right testing methodology enabled. In other words, …
Read MoreCloud computing gives you a golden opportunity for capacity planning
No matter how well your system is put together, you can’t really know how it will perform under stress until you test it. The dynamics of cloud computing allow you to gauge your system’s limits through capacity planning in a way that was never possible before. Now, you can go beyond a simple stress test and try different configurations to …
Read MoreFacebook suffers website outage
Facebook demonstrated last night that even the biggest websites aren’t immune to performance issues now and then. According to our performance monitoring (and by many of the 900 million Facebook users), Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) began experiencing high response times and sporadic unavailability Thursday night and continuing into Friday morning. Checks at 5:28 p.m. PST, 5:33 p.m. PST, 7:19 p.m. PST, …
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