Slight Reliability

In this episode we talk about measuring whether performance itself has a meaningful impact on customer experience, and how difficult it can be to answer that question.

Third party trackers
Are crowding my website
Analytics requests
Are bringing me down
Guess I’ll just close my tab

Oh yeah
Alright
Feels bad
Inside

Four hundred requests
For just one web page
My mobile netwo-oo-er-oo-erk
Is struggling to cope
I’ll guess I’ll call instead

Say it ain’t slow
Your site is unbearable
Say it ain’t slow
My business is going elsewhere

I can’t connect to
Anything you do
All of your websites
Are timing out
When I try
To pay for the product that you had up on
Your website just the other day
It’s not cool

Say it ain’t slow
Your site is unbearable
Say it ain’t slow
My business is going elsewhere

Dear website
I try you, in spite of years of slowness
You’ve cleaned up, got faster, (even) using a CDN now
This gigan-tic image, awakens ancient feelings
Frustration, desperation, all of your customers are goooooonneee…
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Say it ain’t slow
Your site is unbearable
Say it ain’t slow
My business is going elsewhere

Doing more early (shifting left) and doing more in production (shifting right) to reduce how much end to end performance testing we need to do.

In this episode I chat with globally recognized performance specialist Nicole van der Hoeven about chaos engineering, diversity in technology, note taking, chasing shiny things, having a job interview with Stijn Schepers, and much more.

Nicole can be found on Twitter @n_vanderhoeven or e-mail [email protected] 

The two books mentioned are Modern Technical Writing by Andrew Etter and The Art of Statistics by David Spiegelhalter.

In this episode we look at performance testing in stubbed environments versus fully integrated end to end environments. We drill into some of the benefits and limitations of stubbed component performance testing, and how to make sense of it all in our organisations.

In this episode we explore the unique challenges of managing test data during load testing, and some solutions to make our lives easier.

Join Stijn and I as we discuss culture change, coincidences, war rooms, unicorns, penguins, McDonald's testing, and many other things.

Join me as a I chat with performance specialist Alan Gordon about stress and anxiety as a performance engineer.

How do we present ideas about performance engineering either in meetings or formal presentations? And I tell a story about having an anxiety attack in a meeting.

How to do the great technical work you do justice by making sure the right people hear about it in a way they understand.