Content-Encoding: br, or Brotli compression with JMeter
Update: JMeter 3.3 now includes Brotli compression out of the box I am working on a load test for a customer and I ran into a very weird problem where I was not able
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Holiday Prep Load Testing for Magento
With the holiday season coming upon us more quickly than we would like, preparing your site for the holiday season is a required activity. Load testing your Magento installation is a must before your
Excluding fields in the mongodb/mongodb library
I am using the mongodb/mongodb library for a project of mine. The API seems fairly different from the old PECL library and it also came with some other, albeit unexpected, baggage. My understanding of the library
How to (properly) harness the Magento EE Full Page Cache (part 2 – application states)
In part 1 we took a look at some of the basics of the Magento EE FPC. We talked about the general structure and flow of the FPC. In this article we are going
How to (properly) harness Magento EE’s Full Page Cache (part 1)
TL;DR The Full Page Cache is one of the most important performance features in Magento EE and very few people know how to use it Containers control your content Processors manage containers Knowing containers and processors gets
Load Testing the Magento Checkout with JMeter (and enjoying it)
Update: I have started offering a new load testing service for Magento. Check it out! Load Testing the Magento checkout is, in theory, difficult. Well, not so much difficult as time consuming. It is
Reasons why Redis is a great option for a worker queue in Magento
Alan Kent asked on Twitter What is your personal favorite HA distributed queue technology? RabbitMQ? Kafka? Redis? ActiveMQ? Why? — Alan Kent (@akent99) February 4, 2015 You may know that I am partial to
JMeter test script for layered navigation
I’ve been doing a lot testing with JMeter lately for Magento. I really do like it (Magento and JMeter). It may not be the bestest, most perfectest tool in the world, but a) it’s
I’m actually really excited about Hack and HHVM
When you get to be my age you start thinking about the future. You start wondering if some of the choices you made when you were younger. You wonder if those choices are going
Performance of Apache 2.4 with the event MPM compared to Nginx
I wrote a little while ago about how, for running PHP, Nginx was not faster than Apache. At first I figured that it would be and then it turned out not to be, though