How to Test Performance of gRPC
Software interfaces were invented to integrate applications. They work as a kind of port through which you can connect to third-party software and interact with it, for example, send a request to a database and get a response. To make the interface usable for other software, there have to be some rules—what requests can be […]
10 Ways to Optimize Cloud Costs
Cloud services can reduce the company’s IT budget significantly by replacing the burden of infrastructure capital costs with flexible subscription-model usage rates.
In their turn, these costs can be optimized, too. Here are some practical tips on how to take control over bills from AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and other cloud services.
PFLB and Micro Focus Join Forces to Offer Comprehensive Performance Testing Services
We are proud to announce that PFLB has become a Micro Focus Service Provider, which will allow us to offer enhanced performance testing services to clients across the globe. This partnership will combine the strengths of both companies to provide comprehensive performance testing solutions to meet the needs of today’s dynamic and complex IT systems.
How to Scale Your SaaS or aPaaS Business Effectively
Cloud-based solutions are getting more and more popular every year, and revenue in the public cloud market is projected to reach US$525.60bn in 2023. More than half of this market is represented by SaaS and aPaaS businesses, and the demand is increasing every year. We have seen such businesses as Slack or Zoom expand recently, but others will eventually have to do so, too. In this blogpost, we want to share our vision of what is primarily important when scaling your SaaS or aPaaS business.
Tynor Prepared the New Website for High Sales in Four Days
Tynor Orthotics is India’s largest manufacturer and exporter of orthopedic and fracture aids established in the 90s to deliver quality healthcare products.
Committed to a significant expansion in the next three years, Tynor crafted a new e-commerce website focused on excellent customer experience to support this growth. To be confident at launch, the engineering team of Tynor decided to run pre-go-live stress testing for the website.
The tight deadline felt challenging, the customer was relieved to hear we provide a quick load testing solution.
Quick Load Testing solution includes a four-day load testing project performed by engineers of PFLB and a 1-month subscription to the innovative load testing PFLB platform.
Why Is Performance Testing before Black Friday a Must?
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner, so it’s your last chance to take a look at previous years’ results for business and do the math. Together with Christmas sales, these three events make up for the peak load in Internet traffic. ECommerce and mobile apps endure the highest load and expect great profits.
Testing Major Meat Producer’s SAP Makes System 8 Times Faster
Our client, a major nation-wide meat producer, was actively using local WMS and TMS. As a result, their 5,000 employees used to waste much time and effort storing and processing a lot of data in different systems.
To increase the effectiveness of the document flow, the client decided to move all the processes to one SAP ERP system. Massive migration was about to happen, since enormous amounts of data from different legacy systems had to be centralized.
The client had extremely high requirements for a performance tuning project contractor. They wanted to entrust the task only to a highly experienced team.
The choice fell on PFLB, as the company has a proven track record of delivering SAP load testing projects for many corporate clients around the world.
10 Steps to SAP Performance Testing
If your or your customer’s company or organization relies on SAP, at a certain point your QA team will ask themselves how to test it. We broke the process of SAP performance testing into 10 steps, so that you (or they) could use it as a checklist. Read further, and you’ll have your roadmap.
User Manual for k6, an Open Source Tool for Load Testing
What is k6? Who is it for? k6 is a popular open source tool for load testing built for engineering teams. Born as a startup, k6 was acquired by Grafana Labs in 2021, perhaps for its ability of integration with a really large number of third-party tools. In this article, we will lay out our experience of working with k6 and our opinion on how to make the best of using it.
5 most common mistakes to avoid in performance testing projects
A wise man once said, Only those who do nothing make no mistakes. That is why we devote this post to mistakes often made in load and performance testing projects. This post was written not only for managers who are up to their first testing project, but also for leading engineers who have had many of them and have many stories of their own to tell.
The focus of this text is on performance testing, although there obviously may be many mistakes in any part of a complex IT project.