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Fixing inconsistent web response times

05th February 2016 by

Team Capacitas

Agile Performance Scale for Business Growth For IT practitioners Operational Analytics Response Times

If you have some form of user response time monitoring in place for your website you may often see step changes in response times. Perhaps by a few seconds, maybe by more. Here’s a real world example:

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Reducing vulnerability to DDoS attacks through good performance

01st February 2016 by

Thomas Barns

Agile Performance Scale for Business Growth For IT practitioners Software Performance Engineering

Hardly a week passes without another major online brand suffering from cyber-attacks of one form or another, with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks becoming more and more common. Last Friday HSBC’s online...

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Why 'Move Fast and Break Things' Doesn’t Work

25th January 2016 by

Thomas Barns

Performance Testing Software Methodology

‘Move fast and break things’ is a development mantra popularised by Facebook and picked up with enthusiasm by software development teams both small and large. The idea is that if you aren’t breaking things you’re...

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Christmas and New Year Online Trading Review

14th January 2016 by

Danny Quilton

Performance Testing Prepare for Peak

The post Xmas period is typically a busy period for online retailers with peak trading around the Boxing Day and New Year’s Day sales. In our experience up to 1% of the annual online sales revenue can be seen on...

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Perspectives on the UK National Lottery Crash

13th January 2016 by

Neil McMenemy

Performance Testing Prepare for Peak

The UK National Lottery web site crashed on January 9, 2016. This blog discusses the likely impact and measures to avoid crashes in the future.

Camelot Group have been operating the United Kingdom’s national lottery...

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When all Else Fails… what can a retailer do when their website crashes?

27th November 2015 by

Team Capacitas

Black Friday Prepare for Peak

Here are at Capacitas we focus on addressing the technical challenges in businesses meeting the expectations of their customers. In simple terms for retailers it means we ensure their websites can cope with the...

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Fixing inconsistent web response times

Reducing vulnerability to DDoS attacks through good performance

Why 'Move Fast and Break Things' Doesn’t Work

Christmas and New Year Online Trading Review

Perspectives on the UK National Lottery Crash

When all Else Fails… what can a retailer do when their website crashes?

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