Performance interview with LoadStorm

The company LoadStorm from Colorado U.S. did an interview with me about web performance and web testing.

I completely forgot to mention that here… so here is the link
http://loadstorm.com/2010/performance-testing-interview-peter-gfader 

LoadStorm provides load testing from the cloud. Never saw such a nice and easy way (and UI) to hit your web servers VERY hard.
Only downside so far: No Silverlight runner … yet…

 

Additionally a couple of links to check the inner workings of your system...

• Perfmon
• Performance Analysis of Logs (PAL) Tool 
  http://pal.codeplex.com/
• ETW introduced with Win2000
  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-au/magazine/cc163437.aspx
• XPerf for ETW
  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/pigscanfly/archive/2008/02/09/xperf-a-new-tool-in-the-windows-sdk.aspx
• Sysinternals (ProcExp, ProcMon, tcpView)
  http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx
• cports from Nir Sofer
  http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/cports.html
• dotTrace 
  http://www.jetbrains.com/profiler/index.html
• ANTS profiler
  http://www.red-gate.com/products/ants_performance_profiler/index.htm

 

Know your tools! Use the keyboard! Have fun!