Performance Resources

7 Tips for Writing Better Unit Tests in Java

Want to write better unit tests in Java? Look no further. From test-driven development to measuring code coverage, here are seven tips to get the job done.

November 21, 2016

by Reshma Bidikar

· 177,175 Views · 29 Likes

How to Improve Page Load Speed with SVG Optimization

This article will show you what to remove from your SVGs to stop them from slowing down your page and giving your end user a poor experience.

November 20, 2016

by Kyle Henwood

· 23,093 Views · 1 Like

Lambda Architecture with Apache Spark

A lot of players on the market have built successful MapReduce workflows to daily process terabytes of historical data. But who wants to wait 24h to get updated analytics?

November 3, 2016

by Taras Matyashovskyy

· 76,816 Views · 30 Likes

Divide and Conquer: High Scalability With MongoDB Sharding

MongoDB handles horizontal scaling via sharding. Take a look at the different sharding methods you can use and how to make them work.

November 1, 2016

by Eugen Hoble

· 37,369 Views · 3 Likes

Monitoring OS Metrics for Amazon RDS with Grafana

This article describes how to visualize and monitor OS metrics for Amazon RDS instances using Grafana.

October 31, 2016

by Roman Vynar

· 9,508 Views

How to Detect if a User Is Idle

In this article, look at how to detect if a user is active on a Windows machine in order to help deliver notifications more effectively. Read on to find out more.

October 28, 2016

by Romiko Derbynew

· 10,629 Views · 2 Likes

Headless Execution of Selenium Tests in Jenkins

In this article, you'll learn all about running Selenium tests in “headless” mode, i.e., when no browser window is being displayed.

October 27, 2016

by Dmitri Tikhanski

· 23,605 Views · 1 Like

Inside the Apache Solr JSON Facet API

Solr 5 includes a re-written faceted search and analytics module with a structured JSON API to control the faceting and analytics commands. Here’s how it works.

October 27, 2016

by Yonik Seeley

· 8,576 Views · 2 Likes

How to Build and Execute Performance Tests Before Black Friday and Cyber Monday

Have you already started load testing for Black Friday? If not, don’t worry. There is still enough time to discover bottlenecks and fix them.

October 21, 2016

by Noga Cohen

· 5,947 Views · 2 Likes

NGINX Plus as a Cloud Load Balancer for OpenStack

We discuss how NGINX Plus provides advanced load balancing for applications you deploy on OpenStack.

October 21, 2016

by Michael Pleshakov

· 5,885 Views · 1 Like

Amazon ECS Log Analysis (Part 1)

Learn how to use Logz.io's ELK Stack to tackle the challenge of logging your ECS. See how you can mold and shape that data into dashboards and more.

October 19, 2016

by Daniel Berman

· 9,846 Views · 2 Likes

Automated Acceptance Testing for Mainframe With Cucumber and Jagacy

Selenium doesn't automate mainframe green screens. However, there are tools available that can be used to automate mainframe green screen interaction.

October 18, 2016

by Unmesh Gundecha

· 42,376 Views · 6 Likes