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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 informative episode on the subject. We cover inquiry from Josh about how to setup your test labs, how to learn squid and also the alternative benefits of a CDN. Episode formally sponsored by SOASTA (http://www.soasta.com/"), check it out!

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 take note, this episode contains absolutely no stories about ticket websites in the UK. Nice work guys!

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 formally sponsored by our good friends at www.smartbear.com and www.soasta.com.

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 about pre-event site crashes. What fun we're having, eh kids!? Bwwwaaaaahahahahahaha!!!

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 effectiveness of your performance test measurements.

This episode is formally sponsored by our good friends at www.smartbear.com and www.soasta.com! Check 'em out!

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 to performance.

Show officially sponsored by our friends at www.soasta.com and www.smartbear.com!