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The old saying “A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words” can certainly be seen on a Response Time Graph.
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Microsoft ACE team has been involved in performance testing and tuning of web applications within Microsoft for more than ten years and for external customers for more than three years. Over these years of experience in performance testing and tuning,
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Alik here. Following great feedback on our last post we decided to continue sharing ACE Team members’ insights with the online community. This time Bani shares how he is finding his new temple by changing his religion (from UNIX to Windows). He
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Alik here. Being member of a global team I was wondering recently about few questions: How distributed team can improve its own performance and communications? How the team can share technical and professional values when each member is thousand miles
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Disk partition alignment is a best practice . Now that SQL Server wait stats are formally documented & DMVs are available, disk partition alignment may be the best-kept secret related to SQL Server performance optimization. In combination with stripe
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Sometimes it’s beneficial to run load test simulating IE cache. For example, if application is used frequently by repeated users, or if project team wants to set up production monitoring system that measures user experience with cache. There are two places
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In .NET 2.0 the property .EnableDecompression was added which will allow you to use IIS 6 Native Compression in your smart client application. The following article explains how to implement compression in your application and how to configure IIS 6 to
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This post shares case studies of high CPU utilization of ASP.NET web sites. High CPU utilization was caused by lack of batch compilation, multiple folders, and use of XmlSerializer. In all cases the result was high CPU and poor performance; the symptom
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Are you web developer building high traffic web site? Are you performance engineer that lives and breaths performance reports? Are you production System Engineer supporting heavy traffic web site? In either case you need an ad-hoc simple-to-use tool to
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How to anticipate or better off avoid performance related "surprises" during load and stress testing? Apply performance engineering practices throughout SDLC ( S oftware D evelopment L ife C ycle). Here are major talking points, tools, resources,
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Alik here. Does the question sound rhetoric to you? Do you think the answer is “Yes” by default these days? Think twice. Ask yourself the questions below. You may change your mind at the end. Performance Is performance important to you and your customers?
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In a recent MS internal performance gig we encountered an interesting issue with the maxconnection setting in the Machine.Config. Essentially the application we were testing consisted of a web application using classic ASP, COM+ business objects and a
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Hey Folks, part II and III of the Channel 9 interviews are up! You can check out part II here and part III here . Ahmad Mahdi Security Technologist Microsoft – ACE Team ahmad.mahdi
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Well its been a while, but ACE's first video has hit Channel 9 today. If you'd like to see some of the faces on the team, some interesting discussion of who we are and what we do; please do check it out. You can view it here . This is nearly the last
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