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Perhaps you thought that we finally solved all the website problems everywhere around the world!?? No chance! We've got Banksy and Olive Garden for a second round of outages, bi-visibility day, baseball's Angels and radio jockeys all joining us on this weeks' edition of the News of The Damned.

Tools, tools, tools - it's a tools show! Let's get to talking about the tools of the trade. Seriously, why are we so obsessed with this whole idea of load testing tools and diagnostics, and profiling, and simulation, emulation, load generation and visualization? As we respond to popular demand for PerfBytes to cover more about tools - let's kick things off with an overview! This episode is formall...

Simple missteps in calculations, simulations, estimations and extrapolations can lead you down a pathway to serious failure in your performance testing efforts. Take a few tips from us that can help you avoid these mistakes. This episode is formally sponsored by our friends at www.soasta.com - check 'em out!

With a new introduction from Satan we review a global barrage of outages including an epidemic with low-fare airline tickets and tragedy in the Netherlands. Vincent has perfect timing and Howard is amazed to finally get a mention from his Evilness.

It's another year of Black Friday, Cyber Monday and way too much talking turkey around e-commerce infrastructures on this get-em-ready episode where we talk about new tips for 2015, what's changed over the last few years and what you can start doing today. It's not too late to get ready. Plus a special dramatic reading of the PerfBytes Holiday Haiku!

It's a smorgasbord of Chinese metaphysics, the Dalai Lama, Italian romance language, Lao Tzu, Banksy, UK ticket sites, Legos and the Jackelope all conspiring to entertain, engage and educate you!

Packet A leaves the UK enroute to Los Angeles to retrieve a .png file. Packet B leaves Ireland for the same .png file, but only has to hop down the street to the local AWS data center...stops by the pub on the way back for a pint and then still delivers the image faster than Packet A, duh!? For those about to crash a website simply because they can’t spell “C.D.N.” we dedicate this deeply informat...

Kicking off an entire week of crashing websites this NOTD comes from the middle of last month and includes world-wide life-critical news events, repeat offenders in India, politicians crashing government websites and the IRS sadly takes a hit. Mark explains "slash-dotting" while Lucifer once again claims: "cuz you know it's just static content that could be cached in the CDN, right dude?!" Please...

Hello, this is Robot X - I would like to crawl and blast your website with my illegitimate traffic. And we spend time chatting about the differences between known and unknown load caused by semi-intelligent automated agents: BOTS! We cover a little bit of summertime news, the first PerfBytes radio play and plenty of details on how to include bot traffic in your workload profiles. Episode is formal...

Let's talk about a whole new set of system crashes internationally, politically, with repeat offenders, ospreys, pirates and law students potentially suffering the abuse of a browser spinning endlessly. Scott Moore sends us a goodie from a bookstore in the UK, IT Professionals in India have still not learned a lesson about caching static content and our friends in the UK have learned a new trick a...

The first run passed, the next run failed. Which run is right? How do you know? Variability between test runs giving different test results can be a mind-boggling, frustrating ordeal and in the worst case could undermine the entire testing initiative with a lack of trust. In this episode we dig deeper into the details around pre-test conditions and in-test conditions that affect the accuracy and e...

As former Microsoft engineers, James and I have a soft spot in our hearts for those guys back in Redmond and Bellevue. We spend some time digging into the background of .NET including the frameworks, architectures, common monitoring and optimization techniques and James even launches into a PerfRant about ASP.NET Viewstates. Don't miss that! Shout out to Clint Huffman and his Premiere Field Guide...

Just a short list of IT experts from around the world on this episode - including some of my home town folks from Minnesota, student test scores in India (AGAIN!), and a pub in the UK closes it's doors and it's web sessions, the caffeine junkies lucked out during a Starbucks outage! James sounds a general warning to all British fashion houses: prepare ye all for the spare commeth!

New innovations around HTML5 and media-rich web sites, ya know those moving pictures you see on the page? Sometimes they are streamed to the client from a massive back-end infrastructure for streaming media. With any hope however, you're listening to this file-based download of a podcast which is not streaming live to you. We talk about optimizations and tools and acceleration and we try really ha...

Let's take a trip around the world on this episode of News of The Damned! We visit impalas in Australia, a muse, a dead monarch and trainsplitting in the UK and then wrapping up with crashing media moguls, the book of Mormon and non-scalable stanardized test sites back here in the USA! BBBhwwwwaaaaaahahahahahahahaaaaaa!

You might think it's a slow time of the year for website outages...given that everyone blew up back in the holidays, but hold on to your jackelopes! We've got McGraw Hill punishing students being in Indiana, Kanye West stomping innocent shoppers with shoe sales and and tourist wannabe's in upstate New York getting huffpost'ed to death. It's a great day for them all to join the PerfBytes News of Th...

You guys all know that the current HTTP protocol specification is just way too slow - seriously, we need to invent new protocols if we expect to be successful with this whole internet of things stuff. Scott Moore joins us for a great conversation about his recent postings digging deeper into this new HTTP2 re-working of the SPDY protocol from Google. Howard hammers at the ROI statements while Jame...

Web Parts Gone Wild!!! In this episode of PerfBytes Howard and Mark chat with the performance evangelist Andreas Grabner from DynaTrace as we dig deep into the dirty secrets about Microsoft's Sharepoint platform. Whether it's tuning app pools for optimal threading and CPU utilization, or cleaning up those crazy custom list elements, Andreas has tips to help even the most seasoned Sharpoint develop...

Greetings to all you PerfBytes listeners, Lucifer once again introduces another round of stories about websites crashing and the punishment of innocent end-users. We cover more charitable ticketing websites, Chelsea football, New Orleans tax assessments, college entrance exams and the UK National Lottery! It's all Bwwwwaaaahaahahahahaaahaaaaa!

That's right, there are 10 simple things that every developer should know...about performance, of course! HoCho takes us on a tour of specific things that developer engineers should keep in mind about coding for performance, whether it's about discrete resource handling, memory management, threading or network latency. They should keep a grasp of these basics before they write the first line of co...

No, you are not having deja vu or a reality-bending time distortion - it's true...Princess Kate joins us once again after she crashes the Madderson London website with baby bump #2. And that's not all we've got for ya on this episode, Korea joins the UK and Australia in crashing ticket websites, the UK government bond website takes a dump on aspiring investors and Scout.com appears to have done ab...