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Performance comes with a trade-off

Development Jun 3, 2015

Performance improvements are great. But, they inevitably come with trade-offs. Know them and you’ll be safe.

Everyone knows that having a website which is fast is better than slow. But, did you know that improving the speed of your web application almost always comes with a trade-off? Like Antoine Lavoisier said Nothing is lost, nothing is created, everything is transformed. What happens when altering a web or mobile app to improve its performances? How fast do you want to be? First of all, you should ask yourself this question.

Hosting Jekyll on Amazon Web Services

Development Jun 1, 2015

How to host a static website with Jekyll on Amazon S3 and Cloudfront? Get the best performances from anywhere.

Our need is to create a fast website, in as less time as possible. Time is money, and when you launch a Startup, it is a very scarce resource. Our prerequisites: Best possible response times from anywhere in our geographical market (Worldwide: USA, Europe and India). An already designed website template, we are not CSS gurus, and building it from scratch takes too much time. Easy to customize, it must match our graphic design with just a few modifications.

Page Response time Perception

Load Testing Jun 1, 2015

Website pages loading speed is more and more important. It is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) ranking criteria since 2009.

The visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s unpaid results depends on its loading speed. Since 2010, Google announced that Webmasters should optimize their web pages loading speed because it’s going to be a ranking criteria: Page speed and Search Engine Ranking. Matt Cutts predicted this change on his blog. Moreover, global website performance is also important for your visitors. Most people dislike when a website is stuck loading the page, and leave without coming back.

Why We Chose JMeter

Development May 25, 2015

Dilemna choosing between open-source load testing solutions: JMeter, Gatling or building a virtual users injection engine from scratch.

When we started to think how to build OctoPerf, about one year ago, we had several options to create our stress testing platform: Write our own HTTP engine from the ground, Use command line tools like Curl, Reuse an existing open-source HTTP engine, but which one? (Gatling Tool, JMeter, Grinder…) It took us several months to choose which one was the right option. When you are building a startup, the biggest constraint is obviously Time.

Our Philosophy

Innovation May 20, 2015

OctoPerf, our Cloud load testing tool, is made using massively open-source technologies. Because sharing is caring, this blog is a way for us to share how we made it.

We are proud to announce the opening of our Tech Blog. We really wanted to have a place to share technical thoughts openly. Why so open? Sharing technical stuff on our platform is like releaving secrets about how we built OctoPerf, our SaaS load testing tool. OctoPerf wouldn’t exist without the open-source community. We are widely using open-source technologies to build better software. It would be unfair to keep all the great things we have done with open-source technologies just for us.

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