Adding more memory to your JVMs (Java Virtual Machines) might be a temporary solution to fixing memory leaks in Java applications, but it for sure won’t fix the root cause of the issue. Instead of crashing once per day it may just crash every other day. “Preventive” restarts are also just another desperate measure to [...]
We have been blogging about the same problems and problem patterns we see while working with our customers over the past few of years. There have always been the classic application performance landmines in the areas of inefficient database access, misconfigured frameworks, excessive memory usage, bloated web pages and not following common web performance best [...]
Two or three times a year, Bon-Ton Stores products are featured on Jill’s “Steals and Deals” segment on the Today Show. The products are promoted with huge discounts. As soon as the segment first airs on the East Coast, the “Steals and Deals” site displays the featured products, with links to Bon-Ton’s site, usually directly [...]
SharePoint is a popular choice for intranet applications and therefore it is important that it performs well to ensure employee productivity. Waiting ten seconds just to load the initial dashboard doesn’t necessarily support that. At a recent customer engagement we identified an interesting source of a potential performance problem that impacts ALL SharePoint and .NET-based [...]
Two years ago, my team decided to extend our community portal to become “a real” APM Community where members (both commercial and free products) can go to find help and educational content on all topics regarding Application Performance Management (APM). The most critical pieces to that community were: free access to all relevant content (documentation, [...]
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AJAX Edition 4: What makes older versions of IE so slow as compared to newer versions of Firefox?
It’s been a while since we released the last major version of Compuware dynaTrace AJAX Edition. With AJAX Edition 4 we introduce the capability to test across all versions of Internet Explorer (IE) starting with IE6 and all current versions of Firefox starting with 3.6 until Firefox 18 (current version as of release date). Why [...]
Bon-Ton operates 273 stores in 23 states of the US and offers online shopping through fifteen active WebSphere application servers hosted in two eCommerce data centers. 85% of its online eCommerce content is served through Akamai which is smart and necessary in order to serve the 25 million requests they see on their web site [...]
“I’m looking to drop some serious cash on cookware, but I can’t add items to my cart” – this is a comment posted by a frustrated visitor of one of the Bon-Ton Online Stores. The question is what you do with that type of comment when you are responsible for End User Experience? Is it [...]
Even though HTML5, JavaScript and CSS are great technologies for building Rich Client Applications that run in the browser – many people continue to use “real” Rich Client Browser Technologies such as Flash and Silverlight as it provides greater flexibility in certain scenarios. From a User Experience Management (UEM) or Real User Monitoring (RUM) perspective [...]
As part of our continued efforts to be the industry-leading source of news, discussion and information about Application Performance Management, we’re making a few changes to the about:performance blog. Compuware’s Gomez and dynaTrace product lines are now fully integrated, and it’s time for us to combine our blogs as well. That’s why at the end [...]
