Application Monitoring Options
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OmMalik/~3/-ENw7Ehss1g/

Blog post with quick description of the possible solutions and some of the players in each space. If you are looking for system monitoring, network monitoring, latency, etc tools, check this out.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Great scalability related blog/site
http://highscalability.com/blog

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

PushToTest TestMaker
http://www.pushtotest.com/Docs/downloads/features.html

PushToTest TestMaker is a free, open-source platform for testing scalability and performance of applications. It has an intuitive graphical user interface with visual reporting and analytical tools. It has a Resource Monitor feature to help you see CPU, memory, and network utilization during testing. The reporting features let you generate graphs or export data into a spreadsheet application for record-keeping or further statistics analysis.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

IBM Page Detailer
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/pagedetailer

The IBM Page Detailer is a straightforward tool for letting you visualize web components as they’re being downloaded. It latches onto your browser, so all you have to do is navigate to the desired site with the IBM Page Detailer open. Clicking on a web page component opens a window with the relevant details associated with it. Whenever an event occurs (such as a script being executed), the tool opens a window with information about the processes.


Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Ajax performance analysis
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-aj-perform/

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

mon.itor.us
http://mon.itor.us/

A free web-based service that provides a suite of tools for monitoring performance, availability, traffic statistics, etc

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Fiddler PowerToy - Part 2: HTTP Performance
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb250442(VS.85).aspx

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Fiddler 2
http://www.fiddler2.com/fiddler2/

A browser-based debugging tool at the HTTP layer allowing analysis of incoming and outgoing traffic.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

YSlow for Firebug
http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

YSlow grades a website’s performance based on the best practices for high performance web sites on the Yahoo! Developer Network.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Firebug
http://www.getfirebug.com/

Firebug is a browser-based web development tool for debugging, testing, and analyzing web pages.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Best practices for high performance web sites
http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Robot Fighting League Videos

Remember the TV show Robot Wars? Well, just because it is not on the tube any longer doesn't mean the following is gone. Take a few minutes and consider how you would performance test one of these bots. Not as easy as you might first think...

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Robot Performance Analysis And Testing

Ever wondered what sort of performance engineering happens in other industries? Here is a snapshot from manufacturing.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Load Balancing Types

A quick run down of typical load balancing algorithms with advantages and disadvantages of each.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

ZDNet Project Failures Blog

This is a blog devoted to project failures. Some posts discuss how to kill bad projects, other cover examples of failures, and all take a fairly sarcastic view of projects. Fun and informational all in one!

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Internationally Agile

13 Steps to Successfully Managing Your Offshoring Supplier

Hot to Reduce Offshore Hidden Costs

Top Ten Risks When Leading an Offshore Test Team

Tactics for Successfully Leading Offshore Testing

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Amazon Architecture

Information on how Amazon re-factored system architecture to a service model from a monolithic one.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

A Study of Ajax Performance Issues

This blog post covers a variety of issues, ideas, tools, and browser specifics relating to Ajax performance. Great read.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

A couple Ajax links

The morphing web application world

Ajax (programming)

WAPT

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Page Load Times Primer

Overview

Optimizing Page Load Time

HTTP Caching and Cache-Busting

Caching Tutorial

Circumventing browser connection limits

5 Tips For Faster Loading Web Sites

14 rules for fast web pages

Tools

Cacheability


Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Ajax Performance (Blog)

Ryan Breen’s blog covering Ajax resources, articles, and news specific to performance. Good resource for a large variety of information.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com

Welcome to year 3 of the Stress Team - Link of The Week!

Introduction to Software Engineering - Chapter 1

This is an excerpt from the book by Smith and Williams. This chapter consists of justification and ROI for performance engineering... something I typically skipped because I thought I knew it. I submit that now that we are aggressively moving toward performance engineering that the ability to evangelize its merits is important and this is probably worth a read.

Jeffrey Kelly
http://sailwhatcom.com