@perfpulley

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Nine days to the start of Holiday Sales. Are you Ready? lnkd.in/p/eGZjRQF2

#blackfriday #performanceengineering #softwareperformanceriskmanagement | James L. Pulley

9 DAYS UNTIL HOLIDAY SALES BEGIN. ARE YOU READY TO COLLECT THE EVIDENCE? November 1 marks the beginning of the holiday sales season. Between then and Epiphany, January 6, your eCommerce infrastruct...

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Check out my latest article: The Shopping Cart You Never Used: A Hidden eCommerce Performance Risk linkedin.com/pulse/shopping-… via @LinkedIn

The Shopping Cart You Never Used: A Hidden eCommerce Performance Risk

Before November 1, learn how to identify and measure an architectural inefficiency that may be costing your online business sales. This holiday season, at least 2.

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Check out my latest article: The Curse of Bad Data Collection Decisions linkedin.com/pulse/curse-bad… via @LinkedIn

The Curse of Bad Data Collection Decisions

Why the cost of understanding software performance risk matters more than the cost of running a performance test. There is a familiar expression, commonly attributed to Voltaire: Perfect is the enemy...

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Check out my latest article: What Happens When You Build a Company Around the Fastest Time to an Answer? linkedin.com/pulse/what-happ… via @LinkedIn

What Happens When You Build a Company Around the Fastest Time to an Answer?

Some of you may have seen the announcement earlier today regarding Perfacuity 's graduation from the American Technology Venture Lab - ATVL program. A few have already reached out to me with questi...

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Check out my latest article: I Predicted the HealthCare.gov Failure 25 Days Before Launch. I Had Never Seen the Software. linkedin.com/pulse/i-predict… via @LinkedIn

Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace®

Welcome to the Health Insurance Marketplace®. Official government website.

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If you are a developer and your code is suffering from poor performance issues, it's OK to talk to someone about premature allocation. You are not alone-It happens to almost all developers at some point in their career. #StopTheStigma #PrematureAllocation #PerformanceEngineering
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Check out my latest article: Passive Performance Engineering: Learning More by Touching Less linkedin.com/pulse/passive-p… via @LinkedIn

Passive Performance Engineering: Learning More by Touching Less

In 1976, NASA placed a remarkably unusual satellite into orbit. LAGEOS-1 weighs a little over 400 kilograms and carries no solar panels, no batteries, no computer, no radio transmitter, no propulsion...

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Check out my latest article: Inherited Authority: The Engineering Discipline Hiding in a Solved Problem linkedin.com/pulse/inherited… via @LinkedIn

Inherited Authority: The Engineering Discipline Hiding in a Solved Problem

Every software organization has finite engineering attention. Yet we routinely spend it reopening questions that somebody else has already answered.

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Check out my latest article: Holiday Revenue Fails Before the Site Does linkedin.com/pulse/holiday-r… via @LinkedIn

Holiday Revenue Fails Before the Site Does

Every holiday sales season, and every Super Bowl, we observe eCommerce systems fail for many of the same reasons. The traffic may be extraordinary.

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Check out my latest article: The User Who Never Thinks linkedin.com/pulse/user-who-… via @LinkedIn

The User Who Never Thinks

A recent LinkedIn conversation with Rick Cavallaro made me reconsider something fundamental about how we model load. You too should follow Rick for his thought provoking insight in the QA space.

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Check out my latest article: What Do You Do When Your AI Still Isn’t Very Smart? linkedin.com/pulse/what-do-y… via @LinkedIn

What Do You Do When Your AI Still Isn’t Very Smart?

In 2023, I wrote about how an A.I.

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Check out my latest article: The Visible Edge of a Very Expensive Problem linkedin.com/pulse/visible-e… via @LinkedIn

The Visible Edge of a Very Expensive Problem

The most common experience in information technology may be the rage click. You know the one.

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That feeling you have when the most expensive item on your website does not exist. D'Oh! By the way, a 404 status is cacheable on both a Public and Private basis, by clients and CDNs.
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Check out my latest article: Growing the Beard, Jumping the Shark: When Performance Engineering Becomes Theater linkedin.com/pulse/growing-b… via @LinkedIn

Growing the Beard, Jumping the Shark: When Performance Engineering Becomes Theater

Sometime around the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the show changed. Riker had grown a beard.

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Check out my latest article: Ghost Load: The Traffic Your Performance Test Never Saw linkedin.com/pulse/ghost-loa… via @LinkedIn

Ghost Load: The Traffic Your Performance Test Never Saw

Anyone who has spent time in a rural area is familiar with no-see-ums. You do not hear them arrive.

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The Performance Tax: Why Software Performance Is Really Business Risk linkedin.com/pulse/performan…

The Performance Tax: Why Software Performance Is Really Business Risk

Everyone has done it. You've walked up to an elevator, pressed the button, waited a few seconds, and then pressed it again.

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Citizen facing government websites are notoriously poorly designed for scale. It does not matter if you are in Bejing, Bangalore, Berlin, Buenos Aires, or Boston. Just think back to the crashes across the globe during COVID and the disasters associated with NHS and ACA software
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I am planning for 2027. Should I build a Blue Police Box door into the lobby for the PerfBytes broadcast studio, or a nice partial Cray replica with the cushy vinyl seats for people to sit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-1

Cray-1 - Wikipedia

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Check out my latest article: Agentic Performance Testing: When Common Practice Is Mistaken for Best Practice linkedin.com/pulse/agentic-p… via @LinkedIn

Agentic Performance Testing: When Common Practice Is Mistaken for Best Practice

Everyone is talking about Agentic AI generating performance tests. I think we're asking the wrong question.

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Makes you wonder, why doesn't the whitehouse have a relationship with a CDN provider?
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The White House

President Donald J. Trump and Vice President JD Vance are committed to lowering costs for all Americans, securing our borders, unleashing American energy dominance, restoring peace through strength,...

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