CloudHarmony™ provides objective performance analysis to compare cloud providers. Their intent is to be the goto source for independent, un-biased, and objective performance metrics for cloud services. CloudHarmony is not affiliated with, owned or funded by any cloud provider. The benchmarks provided by CloudHarmony fall into 3 categories: Performance Benchmarking, Network Benchmarking, and Uptime Monitoring. CloudHarmony states that there [...]
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CloudHarmony – Free Testing Tool for over 90 Cloud Services
Posted in Apache, cloud computing, data center, response time, throughput, workload on November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Javascript Benchmark for Google Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari
Posted in browser, response time, tagged browser, chrome, javascript on June 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
According to benchmark tests performed by Stephen Shankland of CNet News, Google’s Chrome outperforms Firefox, MS Internet Explorer and Safari on the five subtests of JavaScript performance. The five Javascript benchmarks used in the study were: • Richards: OS kernel simulation benchmark, originally written in BCPL by Martin Richards (539 lines). • DeltaBlue: One-way constraint solver, originally [...]
Proportion of Software Testers to Developers
Posted in programmer, software, staffing, testing, Uncategorized, tagged programmer, software, staffing, testing on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cem Kaner, a professor at the Florida Institute of Technology, has done research on the ratio of software testers to software developers. His presentation entitled “Managing the Proportion of Testers to Other Developers” is partially based on a meeting of the Software Test Managers Roundtable (STMR 3) in Fall 2001. The study found that: – [...]
Apache Server – Requests per Second
Posted in Apache, response time, servers, tagged Apache, performance, web server on July 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This post on www.ilovebonnie.net documents some impressive system performance improvements by the addition of Squid Cache (a caching proxy) and APC Cache (opcode cache for PHP). * Apache is able to deliver roughly 700% more requests per second with Squid when serving 1KB and 100KB images. * Server load is reduced using Squid because the [...]
Drupal Benchmarked on Amazon ec2
Posted in cloud computing, content management system, response time, servers, throughput, Xen, tagged Amazon, cloud, cms, drupal, ec2, reponse time, servers, throughput, virtualization on January 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
According to a benchmark test run by John Quinn & Cailin Nelson, Drupal systems perform very well on amazon ec2, even with a simple single machine deployment. The larger hardware types perform significantly better, producing up to 12,500 pages per minute. this could be increased significantly by clustering as outlined here. The apc op-code cache [...]
