As much as we try to avoid performance problems, they do happen. It is inevitable. But it is possible to learn to react fast; and in some occasions fast enough that the impact on the end users is negligible. Despite operators’ best efforts, 73% of performance issues are reported by users, according to "APM: Getting [...]

When the Operations team gets an alert about potential performance problems that users might be experiencing, it is usually either the infrastructure or the actual application that is causing those problems. Things get interesting when neither the ISP nor the application provider is willing to admit fault. Can we tell who is to blame? Could [...]

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 [...]

Both Paramount & Universal celebrated their 100th anniversary last year, which is a long time to be in the movie business. Arguably, both have made some good, some great, and some bad movies. But, during this year’s Super Bowl, Paramount showed Universal how to design a ‘fast and furious’ web site that stood up to [...]

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, [...]

I love movies.  There is just something about them that can teach us a lot about life.  One of my favorites is Groundhog Day.  The construct of this movie is that the main character Phil, played by Bill Murray, is trapped having to live the same day over and over again.   This is what it [...]

I have spent the past 2 years developing what I’ll call a tool and process agnostic Application Performance Management (APM) framework. This framework couples the valuable APM practices of active monitoring, proactive trending and near-real-time response with related value-adding practices throughout the rest of the application development and delivery lifecycle, such as code profiling and [...]

It is a pleasure to let you know that the Compuware APM PurePath Technology with the upcoming 5.5 release extends to support the PHP technology stack. With the extension of the PurePath technology into the PHP space you have now all the capabilities, which are well known in the Java and .NET space available for [...]

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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 [...]