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Performance Hot Spots
I wrote a post about Performance Hot Spots on Shaping Software .  This is a follow up to my post on Security Hot Spots .  Hot spots are a way to turn Pareto's principle (the 80/20 rule) into action.  By focusing on hot spots, you find the Read More...
Posted 13 April 09 06:56 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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patterns & practices Performance Engineering Cheat Sheet
We posted our patterns & practices Performance Engineering Cheat Sheet to our Application Architecture Knowledge Base on CodePlex.   It’s a bird’s-eye view of applying our performance techniques to the life cycle.  The techniques and Read More...
patterns & practices Performance Engineering
As part of our patterns & practices App Arch Guide 2.0 project , we're consolidating our information on our patterns & practices Performance Engineering.  Our performance engineering approach is simply a collection of performance-focused Read More...
Performance Techniques, Building Codes, and Approach
When you improve the performance of a system, I find it's helpful to think in terms of the techniques you use, the "building codes" you follow, and the overall life cycle approach you use. While there's a lot to know about performance engineering, here's Read More...
Posted 14 January 08 04:02 by J.D. Meier | 2 Comments   
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Using Guidance Explorer from Outlook
It looks like Alik Levin has some helpful posts on using Guidance Explorer from Outlook: Customize Guidance Explorer Inside Outlook 2007 – Find Tech Gold Nuggets Instantly - how to configure Outlook for easier searches using built-in functionality. Consume Read More...
Guidance Share Sweep
One of the most important things I did while I was on vacation was sweeping Guidance Share . Guidance Share is where I consolidate my body of software engineering guidance and test user experiences. I redesigned the home page for simpler browsing and Read More...
Now on Amazon: Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
Our patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications book is now available on Amazon. Buy the Book on Amazon Download the PDF Browse the HTML Read More...
Videos: Security, Performance Testing, and Visual Studio Team System
We posted our ASP.NET 2.0 security videos , performance testing videos , and Visual Studio Team System videos to the MSDN library. Video Index Video Index ASP.NET 2.0 Security Videos Keith Brown explains the mechanics behind some common input and data Read More...
Now on MSDN: patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
You can now find our patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications on MSDN in HTML. It's the same guidance we hosted on CodePlex. CodePlex was our channel for agile release of the guidance. Once we baked the guidance, we ported Read More...
Performance Testing Videos Posted to CodePlex
Today we posted our Performance Testing Videos to CodePlex. They're a companion set for our patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications . Video Index Here's a list of the videos: Video: What Is - The Core Activities of Performance Read More...
Scenarios in Practice
Scenarios are a practical way to organize and focus your product design, development and release. (We use scenario-driven engineering in patterns & practices) Key Benefits Business value . You can use scenarios to evaluate business value. What pain Read More...
New Release: patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications
We released the final version of our patterns & practices Performance Testing Guidance for Web Applications . This guide provides an end-to-end approach for implementing performance testing. Whether you're new to performance testing or looking for Read More...
Posted 29 August 07 08:18 by J.D. Meier | 14 Comments   
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Performance Threats
Rico and I have long talked about performance threats . I finally created a view that shows how you can think of performance issues in terms of vulnerabilities, threats and countermeasures. See Performance Frame v2 . In this case, the vulnerabilities, Read More...
Posted 28 August 07 09:42 by J.D. Meier | 4 Comments   
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Performance Frame - v2
The Performance Frame helps you organize and prioritize performance knowledge. Category Key Considerations Caching Per user, application-wide, data volatility. Communication Transport mechanism, boundaries, remote interface design, round trips, serialization, Read More...
Posted 28 August 07 09:01 by J.D. Meier | 5 Comments   
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Performance Inspections
In this post, I'll focus on design, code, and deployment inspections for performance. Inspections are a white-box technique to proactively check against specific criteria. You can integrate inspections at key stages in your life cycle, such as design, Read More...
Posted 08 July 07 05:45 by J.D. Meier | 1 Comments   
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