Archive for Announcements

Dear Angry Nerds, meet Blitz the Bird Thrower

November 30, 2011

This is a repost of my Atlassian’s guest blog, announcing a Bamboo plugin for blitz.io.

The pig of a problem

We all know what happens when your app performs like a pig. You lose users, customers and revenue. Your app is slow, the failing pigs don’t amuse your customers and you hear about it as the trending topic on Twitter. In most cases you don’t even know that it’s slow until you push the app into production, multiple times a day. How can you identify performance bottlenecks earlier in the cycle? And, if you don’t discover them how to you find and fix them as fast as possible?

Enter Blitz – a performance testing tool, built by Nerds that were angry at how the existing tools weren’t keeping pace with the new Application Development Lifecycle that has Continuous Integration as its center piece.

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Categories: Announcements, Atlassian, Blitz, Cloud, DevOps, Performance

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Scaling out Drupal apps with Acquia and blitz.io

August 22, 2011

We are super excited to announce that Mu Dynamics has partnered with Acquia to bring blitz.io into the Acquia Network. This is immediately available to all Acquia customers to instantly and continuously integrate load testing as part of their Drupal deployment. Load testing web sites used to be a once-a-year, pre-holiday-season undertaking that cost significant $$$, time and resources. Given the complexity of existing tools and solutions, these types of tests could only be run by performance experts. blitz.io changes all of that to make load and performance testing a fun, affordable sport!

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Categories: Announcements, Blitz, Drupal, Performance, Scalability

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Continuous Integration with blitz.io

August 3, 2011

Short blog, this one. At blitz.io we take continuous integration very seriously, in a fun sporty kinda way. In the era of polyglot programmers, we realize that all of us have our own favorites on programming languages for the specific app in mind. With the rise of PaaS and our ability to deploy apps faster than ever, we strive to bring load and performance testing to developers into the CI cycle, in your language of choice.

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Categories: Announcements, Blitz, Cloud, DevOps, Performance, Scalability

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Announcing pcapr.Local

April 18, 2011

Since the launch of pcapr.net a few years ago, the packet-geek community has completely embraced it, extended it and now we are at over 60+ million packets on the cloud, serving enterprise IT folks, operators, government agencies and security/packet geeks. To those that seek specific packet samples, pcapr.net serves as a major reference with samples of over 420+ protocols, full-text search and the automatic indexing and organization of pcaps. But…

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Categories: Announcements, CouchDB, Forensics, pcapr, Wireshark, xtractr

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blitz.io: Deploying CouchDB in the cloud, literally

March 31, 2011

Ever since we launched blitz.io a couple of weeks back, we’ve been thinking. Yeah, we are using CouchDB with multi-master replication to handle geo-latencies and we got five regions around the world with AWS that we can generate serious load from. Frankly though, we are not happy with our deployment. We really need to be right next to the data centers where these apps are deployed so we can instantly generate massive loads with very low latency.

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Categories: Announcements, Blitz, Cloud, CouchDB, Performance

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blitz.io: Benchmarking view performance in CouchDB

March 15, 2011

If you are running CouchDB on an EC2 node with an EBS volume (or otherwise), it’s kinda hard to predict how the view performance will be affected by disk seeks and other criteria. Add complex reduce functions to this mix and you are flying blind. Just in my last blog, we talked about adding parameterization to blitz.io so you can easily test location-aware iPhone and Android apps. What if we could use CouchDB itself to generate fully parameterized tests so you can blitz it?

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Categories: Announcements, Blitz, Cloud, CouchDB, Fuzzing, Testing

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Introducing the Fail Quail :-)

March 14, 2011

Twitter has had a lot of growing pains over the years, so much so that their unofficial mascot (aÂ whale borne aloft by budgies), displayed during times of stress, overload or maintenance became known as the “fail whale.” People rarely see Mr. F. Whale these days, so there is always a sense of nostalgia, mixed with annoyance and/or frustration when it happens. Twitter found a way to put a smile on downtime. Full Post »

Categories: Announcements, Cloud

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Announcing blitz.io – and we are hiring!

March 7, 2011

We just launched our public beta of blitz.io. We wanted to bring the excitement and simplicity of git push for cloud deployments to load and performance testing. As a matter of fact, we think performance testing ought to be a social sport! Most load testing solutions on the cloud today are built heavy (remnants of the J2EE world), require major investment in time and resources, not to mention you have to talk to an expert to accomplish anything meaningful. By adapting common dev tools and dramatically simplifying this, we hope to make cloud performance testing incredibly easy.

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Categories: Announcements, Cloud, CouchDB, HTML5, Testing

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Mu Studio Scale Video Posted

February 22, 2011

Over at the Mu Training Site, we recently published our Introduction to Mu Studio Scale video.

In the video, we used an easy to understand Scenario and ramped it up to 100,000 concurrent users. Actually,though, I think we replicated a lot more than 100,000 users, and here is why.

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Categories: Announcements, Scale, Studio, Training

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