What The Perf!

In this episode, I and Karan try to explain caching in simple terms. 

We explore some caching algorithms and some of the performance metrics to measure for caching. 

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In the 2nd Episode of Season 2, I and Mohan Manoharan have a freewheeling chat about what devops transformation means, how performance engineers can adapt to it. Mohan also talks about the the three ways and ideals discussed in the books The Phoenix Project and The Unicorn Project.

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In this episode we explore some of the best practices you can follow to save time, avoid mistakes and add value to your performance testing project. Your feedback is important to us. Please share suggestions and feedback on twitter at @whattheperf or Email us at whattheperf@gmail.com Best Practices: Monitor the health of your load generators Monitor all possible infra components and their relations in your application architecture Write down notes about your observations while your test is running Always preserve raw results Decide test duration based on caching in your application architecture Randomize test data Follow good naming conventions in scripts and result files Write useful comments wherever necessary in your scripts Correlate all possible dynamic values Use think time in scripts Modularise your scripts Automate test runs Avoid application changes during tests unless that is the goal Run tests a second time to ensure repeatability and consistency Don't focus on any one measurement Tech News: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/bringing-ai-supercomputing-to-customers/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/delivering-http-2-upload-speed-improvements/ https://www.chaosconf.io/chaosconf/begin https://www.cloudbees.com/devops-world/register What The Crash!: https://techjaja.com/moh-website-crashes-as-citizens-try-to-download-the-new-covid-19-guidelines/ https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12360028 https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article245369120.html https://blog.catchpoint.com/2020/09/03/centurylink-outage-and-everything-that-went-down-with-it/?utm_source=bambu&utm_medium=social&blaid=793056

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